Comment on What happens when a prominent person is assassinated and the perpetrator cannot be identified?
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Ask Bruce Ivins. Five people died from the 2001 anthrax attacks, but they could never find a perpetrator.
Bruce Ivins was railroaded by Robert fucking Meuller no less until he committed suicide and years later it would be proven, without a shadow of a doubt I might add, that the facility Ivins worked in did not have the capability to produce antrhax as pure as that used in the attacks.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Edwards_Ivins#Death
When it’s high profile, they will find someone to pin it on. It’s anyone’s guess if that person is the actual culprit.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I’d say not just cops, it’s more which power brokers are involved and need this contained.
Cops are low-influence actors in such cases. They’re as railroaded as the accused.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
Well and having lived through that period and remember how shithouse panicked everyone was about the anthrax attacks because of how quickly they followed 9/11, I can see there being a lot of impetus for them to find someone, anyone to pin it on so they could calm the US public and make them feel at ease.