Pro-tip: Guilty or innocent, do not "cooperate" with the police.

Doc Daneeka: From the article, looks like it was actually the District Attorney's office, not the police, that has decided to dismiss charges and release the guy.

Probably when a look at the evidence revealed that they'd never be able to get a conviction.

They're not releasing him. He committed a parole violation, or so it says.

farkingnotworking: meow said the dog: Excuse me? Try to do the breathing then make a new post that is not lacking in sense. Thank you.

I am really fascinated by Meow said the dog. I've never run into her before, and now all of a sudden I'm seeing her in a bunch of threads. Is this just a web concoction? Is Meow a sprig of the Borat plant that someone has cleverly pinched off and begun to cultivate on their own? Or is this genuine internet gibberish? I don't know which would be more awesome...

Stop encouraging it. They were already outed as a fraud in another thread. In fact, they outed themselves.

davidphogan: Doc Daneeka: From the article, looks like it was actually the District Attorney's office, not the police, that has decided to dismiss charges and release the guy.

Probably when a look at the evidence revealed that they'd never be able to get a conviction.

They're not releasing him. He committed a parole violation, or so it says.

Since cameras weren't allowed at his hearing I am assuming they beat the shiat out of him when he was "uncooperative" and need to keep him away from the public eye.

Constance Velocity:
Stop encouraging it. They were already outed as a fraud in another thread. In fact, they outed themselves.

I dunno. I took meow off my ignore list today because I see s/he has upped his/her game. I've not been fond of the (obvious Balki-esque) schtick, but I feel like meow is growing into it nicely.

BTW, what thread? Link?

The link now goes to the Buffalo, NY restaurant shooting. Anyone have the real link?

MrFi5ter: The link now goes to the Buffalo, NY restaurant shooting. Anyone have the real link?

Minor correction; the link goes to the article about that shooting, not the actual shooting. That would be a terrible thing to click on.

Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda said he "apologized" for the mistake but added Johnson was "less than truthful"

Read that as: "He didn't confess."

Fizpez: That's bad luck on Johnson's part - he's 2 weeks out of the joint, hits up a local bar because, hey who wouldn't - it's not like your local bartender gives a rats ass if you did some time and arent supposed to be in there - if you're behaving your money is good.

So he hits up a bar in violation of his parole but happens to look a lot like the guy who just committed mass murder nearby. The police were just doing their job - its unfortunate his identity wasnt kept less public.

That just occurred to me... What makes a murderer into a mass murderer?

1 magazine's worth.

Doc Daneeka: Ow My Balls: I actually admire the police for admitting this wasn't the right lead and moving on. A less scrupulous force could've just put this guy in prison for life, thumped their chests for a job well done, and nobody but the real killer and the falsely accused would know the difference. I imagine that's happened a time or two IRL.

From the article, looks like it was actually the District Attorney's office, not the police, that has decided to dismiss charges and release the guy.

Probably when a look at the evidence revealed that they'd never be able to get a conviction.

Heh - No longer it's innocent until proven guilty... It's guilty until proven unable to get a conviction.

No sympathy for a convicted felon who is out violating the terms of his parole. None at all.

sjcpjh1: No sympathy for a convicted felon who is out violating the terms of his parole. None at all.

Something about your post rubs me the wrong way...

Either it's that it smacks of zero tolerance, knee-jerking or that you only care about that he's a ex-convict, never mind what he was convicted of?

MycroftHolmes: Events-Copspicked up a guy who had a record and matched physical description. Guy does not cooperate (answer questions, give alibi, whatever). Cops arrest him based on circumstantial evidence. People call in to alibi him. Police corroborate alibi. Police clear man of murder charges and admit mistake. No story.

Events - Cops pick up a guy who sorta kinda looks like the guy who committed the murder. They don't have anything linking him to the crime. Guy acts smart and doesn't start blabbing to the police, police assume that because the guy is exercising his rights, he must be guilty and they have the right guy.

Yes that's wonderful logic there and should not be concerning to anyone.

ThematicDevice: MycroftHolmes: Events-Copspicked up a guy who had a record and matched physical description. Guy does not cooperate (answer questions, give alibi, whatever). Cops arrest him based on circumstantial evidence. People call in to alibi him. Police corroborate alibi. Police clear man of murder charges and admit mistake. No story.

Events - Cops pick up a guy who sorta kinda looks like the guy who committed the murder. They don't have anything linking him to the crime. Guy acts smart and doesn't start blabbing to the police, police assume that because the guy is exercising his rights, he must be guilty and they have the right guy.

Yes that's wonderful logic there and should not be concerning to anyone.

Some people find the sound of jackboots marching to be soothing.

What can I say
When I've ruined your day
And make you all angry and surly?
How could I make
Such a thoughtless mistake
And bury your mother too early?

/They wouldn't make a card for it if it didn't happen all the time

sjcpjh1: No sympathy for a convicted felon who is out violating the terms of his parole. None at all.

No sympathy for cops who are trying to find a reason to arrest a guy because to try to compensate for their own incompetence.

CrispFlows: Either it's that it smacks of zero tolerance, knee-jerking or that you only care about that he's a ex-convict, never mind what he was convicted of?

See below.

ThematicDevice: Events - Cops pick up a guy who sorta kinda looks like the guy who committed the murder. They don't have anything linking him to the crime. Guy acts smart and doesn't start blabbing to the police, police assume that because the guy is exercising his rights, he must be guilty and they have the right guy.

Yes that's wonderful logic there and should not be concerning to anyone.

You know he was two weeks out of jail and on probation, right?

When you've been out of jail all of two weeks, if going to a bar is part of your parole, probably don't farking go to bars. Even if someone doesn't get murdered it's an easy way to get screwed by a cop. If you have to drink, invite some friends over.

I'm not going to show much sympathy for a guy who looks like a mass murderer (four or more per the FBI, to answer CrispFlows, a serial killer does it over time, a spree killer does it at the same time, so he's also a spree killer) and is in violation of his parole two weeks after his arrest for being wrongly identified and not immediately released.

He's a dumbass, which lowers my niceness quotient.

After the paragraph I butchered that last sentence, and I apologize now. Too many edits, but he screwed up by going to a bar. Looking like a spree killer screwed him, but he screwed up first and wasn't questioned without probable cause.

davidphogan: I'm not going to show much sympathy for a guy who looks like a mass murderer

Wait, merely matching a description is a great immoral act? That is just farking insane. Lets talk about what's really going on here, you are unable to accept that no bad situation would befall anyone who you do not believe deserves it. As a result under any circumstance where something bad happens you want to make up a story about how it could never be you in that situation. To accept otherwise is too frightening. Its a common reaction but by no means a reasonable one.

ThematicDevice: davidphogan: I'm not going to show much sympathy for a guy who looks like a mass murderer

Wait, merely matching a description is a great immoral act? That is just farking insane. Lets talk about what's really going on here, you are unable to accept that no bad situation would befall anyone who you do not believe deserves it. As a result under any circumstance where something bad happens you want to make up a story about how it could never be you in that situation. To accept otherwise is too frightening. Its a common reaction but by no means a reasonable one.

I believe he was referring that he was already violating parole by going to the bar.

Not by being wrongfully arrested.