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What a weird conspiracy theory to have of all your options
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Occam's Razor my fiend. Ask yourself what's the higher statistical probability in Trump's America:

A minimum wage teenager, in a city of less than 50,000, on the tills during the breakfast rush, managed to positively ID the suspect, despite him wearing a mask and beanie, based on ambiguous CCTV photos, and decided to snitch. He was then detained within 11 minutes.

Versus

A federal agency tapped into CCTV or kiosk-cameras automatically ID'd him via facial recognition, and then established clean, admissible evidentiary trail to mask an unconstitutional investigative source.


The McDonald employee would be what señor Occam would have picked



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