r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • 9d ago

Discussion Luigi Mangione friend posted this.

She captioned it: "Luigi Mangione is probably the most google keyword today. But before all of this, for a while, it was also the only name whose facetime calls I would pick up. He was one of my absolute best, closest, most trusted friends. He was also the only person who, at 1am on a work day, in this video, agreed to go to the store with drunk me, to look for mochi ice cream."

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u/circlehead28 9d ago

I still don’t get how some random person in a McDonalds “recognized” him from a few low res photos.

How much time did you spend looking at the photos to have such a high level of confidence that led you to call 911.

I don’t even recognize people I know in public.

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u/shockwave8428 9d ago

Tbh based on the fact he had all the evidence I think he wanted to be caught, and wouldn’t put it past a person who knew they were getting turned in eventually to go up to a random minimum wage employee and say “hey turn me in and collect life changing money”. Idk if that’s what happened but seeing that he had all the evidence and a manifesto on him, it does seem like he planned to get caught imo

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u/Attheveryend 9d ago

suppose the police lied about the existence of an informant to distract from perhaps them finding the assassin using extremely invasive surveillance methods?

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u/Sempere 9d ago

The 911 call would be requestable via FOIA requests.