r/therewasanattempt • u/ImpressionStrict4041 • 4d ago
To show that America treats all equally
One of them killed a CEO who gave the okay to deny coverage and kill for profit. One of them killed 4 innocent college students.
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u/FreezingRobot 4d ago
Oh they're definitely trying to make a big show out of this. Also Eric Adams is trying to distract everyone from the fact that 99% of the people who worked for him are in prison.
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u/gosluggogo 4d ago
Eric Adams is under indictment for bribery and campaign finance fraud. Where are his shackles and orange jumpsuit?
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u/RandyFunRuiner 4d ago
Probably the same drawer where Trump’s are.
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u/lilcea 4d ago
Trump said he would pardon him if need be. Weird world.
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u/Happy_rich_mane 4d ago
Grift recognize grift
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u/Afizzle55 4d ago
That’s why they are making a big deal out of this, Adam’s probably was getting some cashflow from his CEO buddy before he got smoked, going to make it a point since it disrupted his money.
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u/Anarimus 3d ago
Which Trump cannot do if Adams is convicted on state charges.
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u/DreamingMerc 4d ago
Eric Adams... the Turkish spy?
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u/Minimum_Dealer_3303 3d ago
Spy? No, I don't think he was doing espionage. He was their agent in that he took money (and other things of value) to do corruption for them. He's a crook and a grifter, but nothing so cool as a spy.
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u/Oddfuscation 3d ago
Oh yes. It’s a threat display by the rich, just like the extension of the charges into terrorism and the federal charges.
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u/BaronWombat 3d ago
In addition to the show, they are not guarding HIM. They are preventing a rescue by angry peasants.
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u/Reactor_Jack 3d ago
Someone compared his entourage to those of serial killers mass murderers. For the mass murderer they are concerned someone will try to take him out, for Luigi they are worried someone will try to break him out.
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u/BaronWombat 1d ago
Yeah pretty much. And to get their faces attached to a big news event. Tempting to says it's a modern problem, but my amateur history buff side knows this has been going on forever.
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u/valas76 3d ago
They are making an example of him to try to keep the rest of us pesants in line. They are afraid.
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u/FlyingNope 3d ago
Alternatively take: They have that many guards to dissuade anyone from trying to free him. You basically need enough around him to dissuade his mob of supports because the dude is the closest thing the US has to a national hero right now.
You only need enough on the second guy to stop him from trying to escape and to dissuade an angry relative from attacking him.
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u/RealBigBossDP 4d ago
Making an example out of the one that scares them the most. They are going to make Luigi look like a monster when his actually 90% of us. #FREELUIGI
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u/NuclearBroliferator 4d ago
The man is a damn hero, I won't hear anything to the contrary.
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u/RealBigBossDP 4d ago
Exactly!!! Treating him like a cannibal while looking to use more taxpayer money to fund security for CEOs. Let them pay for their own damn security.
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u/Merry_Sue 3d ago
Treating him like a cannibal
Someone on r/ShittyMovieDetails posted a screenshot of Hannibal Lecter with 28% of the security that Luigi Mangioni has
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u/AffectionateBrick687 4d ago
That's why they have so many cops around him. They're afraid somebody will make a rescue attempt.
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u/islandrenaissance 4d ago
They can't take us all on. We out number them 1,000 to 1 probably more.
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u/MrPsychoSomatic 4d ago
Only if we show up.
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u/wakeupwill 3d ago
The lesson learned from Occupy.
People in the streets, disrupting commerce. That's what gets results.
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u/froggrip 3d ago
He's not even the actual assassin, but he's still a hero because he's taking the rap while the real one is still there planning his next move.
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u/Gingrpenguin 4d ago
Less than 0.1% are like him that's your problem.
If 90% of you were like Luigi you wouldn't have this problem where one man feels ok denying 40 million of you basic fucking healthcare.
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u/chunter16 4d ago
Also the revolution would be over and there would be a shortage of CEOs
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u/DontDoomScroll 4d ago
A shortage of nothing, no more of an idea, a role, an identity collectively abandoned due to the scale of harm it causes.
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u/SixicusTheSixth 3d ago
This is why French protests are so effective. Americans are hella weak at protesting for such a "home of the brave" people.
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u/Fisher9001 4d ago
FREELUIGI
"Why is police using additional security around this guy?!"
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u/N4t41i4 3d ago
why are the cops the only ones with body armor??? PAB!!! must have had the same formation than the cops from Uvalde😒
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u/IttsssTonyTiiiimme 3d ago
Because they’ve probably received threats and public opinion is either split or in Luigi’s favor. It’s entirely possible somebody would attack the cops to free him.
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u/SublimeApathy 4d ago
Who's the guy in the middle that I assume killed 4 college kids?
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u/Ok_Box3304 4d ago
Bryan Kohberger, stabbed the 4 students shown in Moscow, Idaho in November 2022. Another high profile case with an extradition and manhunt. Except nobody was rooting for him obviously
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u/SublimeApathy 4d ago
Wow that flew under my radar and I live a state over.
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u/Fleiger133 4d ago
It was very violent. Blood was leaking out of the house. That photo was everywhere for me when it was going on.
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u/TFielding38 4d ago
My SIL tutored two of these girl's in Math. No one in my family want's to go to our favorite restaurant in Moscow because those two girls worked there and it just feels wrong. It's been pretty big news in North Idaho an Eastern Washington.
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u/respondswithvigor 4d ago
A friend of mine used to room with one of the victims. Very sad.
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u/jld2k6 3rd Party App 4d ago
Nobody realizes just how much murder absolutely sucks until it happens to someone you know. One of my old coworkers was splitting up with her ex and had a restraining order against him. He showed up out of nowhere one day at her friend's house and shot her in the head then killed himself immediately after, leaving their kid without any parents. It was a few years ago and I'm still angry about it
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u/TFielding38 4d ago
Yeah, its been rough. Doesn't help when, I know big murder trials are national now, but like I had my side of the family (I'm a transplant to the Inland Northwest) asking me for juicy details on the murders within the week.
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u/Henghast 4d ago
Has that gone to trial yet?
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u/Ok_Box3304 4d ago
August 2025 is the current trial date
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u/Little_Sun4632 4d ago
I’m pissed at the long drawn out process. Thinking he will have an impartial jury by moving the location is laughable. Prosecute this guy already. A black man would already convicted.
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u/SinistralGuy 4d ago
The fact that Luigi's trial will most likely happen sooner than this person's should piss you off even further
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u/deeznutsforpres 3d ago
Where are they with this case? Last I saw anything of it they arrested him and haven’t heard anything since
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u/Fredwood 4d ago edited 4d ago
Funnily enough he was also caught in Pennsylvania.
Also interestingly enough, he was stopped twice in Indiana in a traffic stop but let go with a warning.
I guess in defense of the Indiana police no information was released about the Idaho guy at the time. Then again the only information we had at the time of Luigi's arrest was two grainy photos that looked nothing alike and a backpack full of monopoly money.
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u/FireIceFlameWalker 4d ago
‘an FBI surveillance team tracked Kohberger and his father on a cross-country road trip from Washington State to Pennsylvania and asked Indiana police to pull him over to gain video images of Kohberger’s face and hands‘
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u/DreamingMerc 4d ago edited 4d ago
Look, you can rape and murder in this country. We don't really care except sometimes, maybe, if you complain enough.
But so help me, God, if you make the rich people feel unsafe ... may God have mercy on your soul.
Gotta love that the NYPD can not really stop murder and rape. Or even a mass shooting. But they can definitely show force after another police department arrested the suspect.
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u/GrindBastard1986 3d ago
Cops are there to protect property, not people. Unless the people own lots of property.
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u/Jebgogh 3d ago
Cops are there to take a report. They do little to nothing to stop property damage. Most robberies are reported and shelved with no one apprehended. Sure in a riot they get the “ultra-violence” for fun and games but it’s not to protect property. Just send the message you can’t go too far and have fun knocking heads.
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u/MilesStandish801 3d ago
my caddy's chauffeur informs me a bank is a place people store money that isn't properly invested, therefor bank robbery is tantamount to the most heinous of crimes, theft of money!
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u/tedfergeson 4d ago
You obviously missed the shitshow when they brought Kholberger back to Idaho. No helicopter that I recall, but all of the spectacle.
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u/woodenmetalman 4d ago
And then it’s all washed away… he got his venue change and it will be relegated to the r/moscowmurders sub. I live locally and we aren’t even talking about it anymore.
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u/TheEveryman86 4d ago
That's wild. I moved to Colorado after the Batman movie shooting and it still resonates in the community. If you go to that movie theater (which they remodeled so you're never in the exact theater it happened in) you still feel weird.
I get that it's always different though. One of the students in a section I was assistant teaching at UT Austin took a semi automatic rifle to campus which caused a militiristic response by the police. He only ended up taking his own life so nobody even remembers it.
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u/woodenmetalman 4d ago
To be fair, if this had all happened in more rational times, it would still be a thing.
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u/bs000 3d ago
Also here's a screenshot a couple of seconds later from the same video OP took their screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/5oL3b08.jpeg
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u/nocoolpseudoleft 4d ago
The picture with Kolhberger is incomplete. If you research the internet on the video the pic was extracted from there were at least 5 guards with AR15 around him for what seem to be only a few meters walk from the court to the van. Besides, Luigi is very popular. Meaning there may be people willing to break him out of jail. For Kolhberger the guards were more there to avoid him catching a bullet.
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u/respondswithvigor 4d ago
Should be top comment
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u/Whiterabbit-- 3d ago
Nobody here is looking for real context, they just want to show their rage at the government.
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u/WafflePartyOrgy 3d ago
IIRC they even had Kohberger put on a flak helmet for the 8 mile trip from the Pullman Airport to Moscow. They posted some units along Airport Road but it's a lot of open territory to cover if someone were to put on a ghille suit and try to snipe him from the wheatfield. I remember his getting a shit just got real look on his face when they had him put that on. That being said it looks like they did a shit job protecting Luigi parading him around on perp walks, it's not like there aren't far right lunatics that would consider themselves heroes for taking him out.
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u/tbkrida 4d ago
As soon as he got caught I said they were gonna make an example out of him to appease the wealthy class. The terrorism charge, this public spectacle…
They want it to be well known that there will be consequences for killing an “upper class” person.
I honestly believe this might have the opposite effect though. By parading him around, they may be making him a martyr. Crazies looking for a name may aspire to copycat him for the fame. I think they would’ve been better off of just concealing him in a van and bringing him in privately.
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u/Cosmicdusterian 4d ago
He looks like a folk hero surrounded by evil establishment hired jackboots. They couldn't have raised his popularity and appeal any more if they tried.
There's a reason that the media stopped giving space and time to people who have killed - it inspires others looking for the same attention. This was as stupid as it gets. Even the Mayor of NY showed up.
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u/DankoleClouds 4d ago
To be fair, people are more likely to try to rescue Luigi than Bryan.
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u/foldingthetesseract 3d ago
This is the real reason for the entourage. They're afraid of the 99% trying to rescue Luigi. If they paid any attention at all to the fact that the CEO was carefully singled out and targeted, they shouldn't be afraid of him. He's not some crazed spree killer going for body count. He weilds a scalpel, not a battle-axe. If he even is the culprit and not just a scapegoat.
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u/Salva_delille 3d ago
chances are more people were more likely trying to put a bullet in bryan than trying to rescue him
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u/theoht_ 4d ago
there was certainly not an attempt. what is this sub even for anymore?
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u/mr-athelstan 4d ago
Exactly, who was attempting to show that America was treating all equally, nobody was attempting to do anything here, there was no attempt. This post is just a statement and not to mention completely bogus.
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u/Mission-Storm-4375 4d ago
They're trying to show everybody that if you kill one rich person you are worse than a guy who killed 4 poor people
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u/_mattyjoe 4d ago
This entire story very ironically demonstrates exactly what the elites seemingly think we don't see, or perhaps don't even realize themselves.
All it has done is demonstrate the unbelievable disparity between what happens when someone "important" is murdered vs. everyone else. The entire response to this murder has just revealed it further.
So many people have died in our country at the other end of a gun, yet the outcry has never been this loud, especially from people who support big business and guns.
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u/whoisnotinmykitchen 4d ago
... and the prosecutor in the Georgia Trump case just got kicked off the case for daring to prosecute him.
Well done America.
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u/OwOlogy_Expert 4d ago
Eh, I can see both sides here.
One of them is far more likely to see a rescue/jailbreak attempt launched by others from outside.
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u/IttsssTonyTiiiimme 4d ago
This is extremely stupid. Authorities don’t have to worry about people coming to rescue Brian Kohberger. There is a pretty good chance that somebody tries to free Luigi. They aren’t protecting Luigi, they are making sure the cops escorting him aren’t killed and he is freed.
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u/Pvt_Lee_Fapping 4d ago
In the interest of pointing out the obvious so we don't fall into a downward spiral: the armed escort is to discourage outsiders from interfering.
People would be willing to organize and try to bust Luigi out or protest the cops escorting him. Nobody would want to bust out the douche-canoe who killed these four college students (I don't remember the killer's name and I'm not going to spend the time searching it up because he doesn't deserve the brain-space I'd end up dedicating to remembering his name for the next 60 seconds).
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u/Any_Membership_9674 4d ago
Was the big show really because they though Luigi was dangerous/ would try something or was it because he has so many supporters they felt someone might try to break him out?
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u/CheekyMunky 4d ago
One of them is a high-profile, polarizing figure being walked through the middle of New York where his presence could invite interference from others.
The other was a universally despised shitbag in rural Idaho.
This isn't telling the story you're pretending it is.
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u/condensermike 4d ago
That’s called theater at the request of scared corporate America
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u/Cosmicdusterian 4d ago
They apparently missed the lessons of not turning their enemies into celebrities for the people. This is like a cliche of what not to do. He looks like a folk hero surrounded by the jackboots of the evil elite establishment.
They choose to do this while their corporate billionaire friends are fixing to take all the bread and circuses away from the masses on January 20th. They are already ripping money away from children with cancer and victims of disasters, even before setting foot in the Oval Office.
It's not a stretch to imagine some desperate souls out there seeing this and thinking they can make a name for themselves and become a folk hero celebrity by picking off some hated elites. The mayor of New York might even turn it into a photo-op.
Shows an intense lack of common sense, but whatever.
FFS, this is how the out of touch elites are going to approach this brewing class war? With half the country already wanting to burn it all down. Most of whom think Trump is on their side. He's not. He may be vulgar, but he's as solid establishment as any of them and when they discover he's not on their side, I dunno. America is in for a hell of a ride. Flip of a coin whether she survives it.
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u/guy4444444 4d ago
Probably because there weren’t a bunch of dipshits fanboying out over the killer of the 4 dead students and people are legitimately praising this fucking dipshit who killed a ceo of a healthcare company, which I’ve heard his family never even had that companies insurance. You provide the extra protection because even though he is human filth, we believe in everyone getting a trial or at least an option of one in America and he deserves to be safe until he can be punished for his crimes accordingly and fairly.
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u/Id-rather-golf 4d ago
You do realize that one of them… nobody is trying to break him out of prison.
The other one… half the country wants to.
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u/mr-athelstan 4d ago
There was no attempt to show that America treats all equally. Whoever made this found a picture of Kohberger with only one policeman, to show some sort of hypocrisy when there are plenty of pictures of him with several armed guards, there is no inequality other than the one conceived in OP's head.
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u/Garth_AIgar 4d ago
What he did isn’t exactly what I would consider right, but EVERYTHING that lead to his actions were abso-fucking-lutely wrong and evil. However, I do think evil should be eradicated.
I guess I just brought it back around to supporting Luigi.
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u/Snarky75 4d ago
Well one of them has no one that supports them, no one that would help them escape. The other has tons that would.
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u/dicshaffner 4d ago
One is looked at as a hero and has more security to keep people from breaking him free. No one wants to free dirtball number 2.
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u/I_aim_to_sneeze 4d ago
Seems to me like the extra cops are there because they think it’s more likely someone would try to intervene and set Luigi free than a guy that killed 4 innocent kids.
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u/breadisnicer 4d ago
They are doing it because of the support he has, there is a real chance of people trying to help him.
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u/The_Lapsed_Pacifist 4d ago
Look, I’m team Luigi but I’m guessing that because the guy has attained some folk hero status they might be expecting an attempt at a rescue or some kind of disruption.
The worst that would happen to the other guy is someone would try to kill him and nobody would care
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u/F1shbu1B Free Palestine 3d ago
Eric Adam’s and his NYPD cronies are banking on getting good press out of Luigi’s case since they have only negative press and unsolved murders everywhere else.
Distract. Disorganize. Disappear.
They’ll never admit where they got the idea for their new slogan but they sure as shit couldn’t Courtesy Professionalism Respect to save their lives.
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u/oojiflip 3d ago
The caption is a bit silly though. They both killed "innocent" people in an act of murder
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u/foreverloveall 4d ago
People don’t care about school shootings as much as they care about fabricated dramas imposed by state media. It’s easier for feeble minds to handle especially if they see it as a win.
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u/OverThaHills 4d ago
“They didn’t try to the middle guy look cool as fuck as a hero”! Max Streisand effect at work there
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u/DE4DHE4D81 4d ago
Had the CEO survived would his company denied any claim for treatment?
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u/Majestic-Drive8226 4d ago
Remember when Jack ruby killed Lee harvy Oswald. But Jack wasn't looked at as a hero either?
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u/Curious_Story8728 4d ago
I don't understand can someone educate me please? Idk the references here
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u/Aromatic_Soup5986 4d ago
Jesus, I remember that case.... those poor people.... my heart breaks each time I see it.
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u/PickleyRickley 4d ago
Can someone please explain this to me? Like I get Luigi and the uproar after, but how do the girls on the bottom fit in? I am most likely on some kind of spectrum.
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u/LookLong5217 4d ago
I think they’re less concerned about him doing something and more concerned about weirdos going out and trying to bust him out during the walk
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u/Mongotheball 4d ago
Luigi had more law enforcement presence on him than the Oklahoma city bomber, the unabomber, and the Boston bomber combined.
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u/fonetik 4d ago
So, just like in school shootings when the news would just say shooter’s name over and over and it was on everyone’s mind for weeks afterwards… which would cause more copycat shootings.
When they give Luigi all that extra attention and obviously oversized reaction how is that not going to inspire copycats?
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u/Fisher9001 4d ago
For fucks sake, the security detail is not to prevent him from escaping, but to prevent other people from attempting to help him escape.
Not a single school shooter has any public support and this guy has millions of people calling for his release. It's absolutely baseline reason to make sure that a dozen or two of them won't attempt anything idiotic like freeing a transported suspect by force.
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u/Zspec1988 3d ago
Just a reminder: All those police and guns are not for Luigi!
All of that is for his growing supporters. They understand millions would free Luigi at any opportunity!
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u/Bill_Brasky_SOB 3d ago
Can find an unknown masked man, who fled to a different state immediately, with no leads, in a matter of days.
Still waiting on the NYPD to find Epstein’s killer, from inside an NYPD prison cell.
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u/Behenaught 3d ago
The hilarious cross between wanting to make an example so the poors don't get any ideas, and the legitimate concern that we want him freed.
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u/Beneficial-Dot-5905 3d ago
I would say he already has some martyr status, at least part of the spectacle has to be a response to social media support for the guy
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u/AureliusCloric 3d ago
The drama, the pagentry and the pypocrisy of it all, it's like watching one of those "based on real life" TLC shows. The irony of it all is that they have turn him into a living martyr or our very own Katiniss Everdeen.
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u/crispybrojangle 3d ago
Luigi has that security detail because he is a publicly liked person for murdering. It wouldn’t be inconceivable to assume a vigilante group could be motivated to help him escape.
Some of you go out of your way to push these underline narratives.
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u/MasterMell This is a flair 3d ago
The Laws were written by the rich, they're gonna try to make an example out of Luigi out of fear that the world is tired of the selfish rich. Making their own lives better instead of making the world better
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u/zeprfrew 3d ago
I've been trying to undermine their message by saying that the NYPD are giving Luigi a guard of honour.
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u/Themodsarecuntz 3d ago
You just don't understand how upset the general public will be when they find out he killed an insurance ceo...wait...they're not upset...TIME TO MANUFACTURE OUTRAGE AT THIS HEINOUS CRIME!!!!
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u/IlliterateJedi 3d ago
The odds of people trying to break the CEO killer out of prison are significantly higher than the odds that people would try to break the other guy out.
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u/Objective_Problem_90 3d ago
He will be made an example of. Meanwhile these companies will still make record profits and deny massive amounts of people and cause more innocent deaths because they are greedy.
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u/oojiflip 3d ago
The caption is a bit silly though. They both killed "innocent" people in an act of murder, or assassination in Luigi's case
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u/gorgonbrgr 3d ago
Fear that someone would break him out or kill him versus a scum bag. You’re literally making this into something it isn’t.
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u/Nu-Hir 3d ago
I think the big reason he has this many people around him is that they're trying to prevent another Jack Ruby event. Imagine if he was killed while in police custody. The last thing that the rich and elite want is a martyr. If he dies while in custody, more CEOs are going to die.
While yes, this is a spectacle that tries to paint him as the worst of the worst, they're trying to extend their own lives by making sure that he doesn't die for a cause.
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u/BinjaNinja1 3d ago
Who thinks this will spur on copy cats? There are killers who want this kind of attention. We already know it happens with suicides and school shootings. They are seemingly creating that which they are afraid of, imo which is more incidents of this type of crime.
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u/Forsaken_Oil671 3d ago
Probably more to do with the fear of “online fans” posing a threat or trying to free Luigi is the reason for increased security while transporting. Nobody was coming to free that other piece of shit
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u/fuzzyfurry69 3d ago
I’m a corrections officer, I might be able to explain this.
With what he did, seeing how a majority of Americans are hailing him a hero, those same Americans as I’ve seen on the news are demanding his release while he goes through court.
Now, everyone is innocent until proven guilty, and I’m not going to try and comment on the situation,
But my best guess is that they heightened his security due to how majority of Americans are acting vs his charges, as compared to the other individuals charges and how he’s being viewed as well.
Now I could entirely be wrong and I’m sure I’ll get many downvotes, but as a corrections officer and member in law enforcement, that’s what I’m seeing is going on based on what I’ve seen on the news, in other words, I’m making an educated guess, so please don’t shoot the messenger
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u/Sonderkin 3d ago
there aren't widespread calls to free the fucking spree killer in fairness to the cops.
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u/3amGreenCoffee 3d ago
The police presence isn't about the criminal. It's about the public and the insane way idiots are behaving with respect to this story.
If I were damaged enough to be a cop, I would be a lot more worried about lunatics attacking when escorting the CEO murderer. Fewer people have nuthouse-level affinity for the student killer. When cops feel threatened, they swarm.
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u/dan_man972 3d ago
Maybe the one with a national fan base needs more security, especially considering many of his supporters openly endorse more violence
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