A lot of this bizarre, obviously, as others have pointed out.
But regarding Lloyd's text to his mother, which supposedly implied that he was fearful something might happen -- doesn't that also imply that there was more to this than just talking to somebody AHern didn't like? Who would fear for his life for something seemingly so innocuous?
I thought the implication was that he knew he might be in trouble after he got into the car. Though, why they allowed him to text anyone while they were taking him somewhere to shoot him is a mystery. I guess I'd say a couple of things at this point -- the police told a very compelling story. But it's just a story, and at this point they don't need to put forth any evidence. It was just what they had to say to win on bail, and they did. I saw a few holes in it, actually, although the general facts look pretty bad even without a lot of the details.
But the bottom line is that as a case go forward, the story matures. What is claimed to be the motive a few days later isn't necessarily the final word and things get more nuanced later. Stories change a little. Evidence doesn't come out exactly like people thought it would. For the better and also for the worse. Getting too hung up on the details will just drive you crazy at this point. If we could see the actual affidavit they used to get an arrest warrant, maybe we could draw more conclusions, but that's been sealed.
You'll drive yourself nuts trying to make sense of all the details and drawing a straight line between everything the prosecutor said today. Stuff that doesn't make sense today might make more, or less, sense tomorrow. It's way easier to stand at a podium and paint a picture of a guy being bad. It's harder to prove it, and the defense gets a turn too. Based on what I heard today, I assume he probably did it or at least was significantly involved. But I still am not sure why, who is cooperating, who isn't, what the evidence really is.
As sure as I'm sitting here, I can almost guarantee there will be one or two twists in this story along the way. He's not a Patriot any more, and he appears to have done a really bad thing. That's kind of the big picture story. If the details are important to you for some sort of closure or to try to make sense of it all -- as they definitely are to me -- I wish I could say something different but none of that will happen in a day or week or month. It's going to be a long process.
