Also remember, things are newsworthy because they’re novel. US sees like 2 gun deaths per day and thousands due to insurance company malpractice, but this one death dominates newscycles.

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    Don’t get prison time by giving false information to the police. That’s a crime.

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      8 days ago

      Yeah but I think a lot of guys look like him. It’s probably best that I call in every. single. one.

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      Anonymous tips are a thing. Call from a burner phone at a crowded bar, send an email from a temp mail site you accessed on public wifi using a laptop you bought that day from AliExpress that was shipped to a fake name and public addess that you then donate to goodwill. Create a mechanical pigeon out of scrap you find in the trash while wearing gloves whose entire purpose is to play an recorded message using a common AI voice tts that gets left outside a precinct by a bike courier that you paid in cash while wearing a mask.

      Be the slop drama hero the media has trained you to be since birth.

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      Just gotta dress like the dude. Any passerby might make the connection and report it, it will be a dead end. That, and city cameras will have a hard time picking out anything from the myriad of false positives.

      It ain’t false information for a passerby to report something they think is suspicious that isn’t. It ain’t false information to dress how you like.

      The only real issue here is gait identification.