If he had killed any of us, the cops wouldn’t give a shit.
Remember that.
These insurance providers kills thousands and the cops don’t give a shit.
He wouldn’t have killed any of us.
Remember that.
But any CEO of any health insurance corporation absolutely would.
I dunno, I’m the CEO of my own single-member LLC.
How many deaths is your company responsible for?
Just my own, every day.
Then you’re fine and have nothing to fear from The Adjuster.
All the brain cells from doing bureaucracy
And if you were in a bad situation, cops on the scene have a higher chance of killing you.
Yeremi Colino was murdered the same day. No massive manhunt, no big cash reward for his murderers’ capture. AFAIK, they’re still at large.
But I guess that’s the difference in how our society values the lives of a migrant teenager and a CEO of a massive insurance conglomerate.
If I’d done what that CEO fuck probably did to this guys family, he would a been justified in killing me too
I hope you haven’t…
Nah, they just finger their cat.
Murder clearance rate in Manhattan is over 80%.
Too bad they can’t just pick up a rando with mental health issues and lie, torture, and starve him in a room until he “confesses”
Those goalposts heavy?
I’m wondering if they’re holding back on sharing extra pictures of him, because by now they must be aware that the likelihood of people helping him hide is super high
At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if people broke out of any detention facility of he is ever to be caught just to drive the point home to the parasite class…
He didn’t commit any crime. Get fucked
Statistically, there were likely 4 more murders in NYC since this one, I’m sure they’re investigating those just as thoroughly.
To put that in perspective:
All numbers from 2023
NYC:
- 8.25 million inhabitants
- 386 murders
Austria:
- 9.13 million inhabitants
- 72 murders
Big cities have more murders than rural countries, more news at 11.
DUN-DUN!
Cue BD Wong talking about how the assassin was abused as a child by UHC
Or JK Simmons nonchalantly implying that maybe the CEO deserved it, and that makes the killer the most sane of anyone.
He did deserve it though. We also shouldn’t stop at Health Insurance CEOs, we need to make oil company execs fear for their lives for the damage they are doing to the environment.
Police realize 1 video is made of 200 pictures
It’s already been two and a half days. The longer they go without catching him the less likely it will be that they do.
The fact that they are issuing a wider manhunt seems to back that up.
Given the publicity, I’m sure that they’ll catch a guy, but I’m skeptical that they’ll catch that guy.
Hate to burst the bubble but this guy threatened the illusion that the billionaire class is untouchable. The ultra-rich are going to be leaning heavily on all the politicians and officials they helped put into position to ensure this guy gets caught no matter the cost, and ensure he’s made an example of.
It might not be the NYPD or any other civil police department, but you can bet NSA & FBI leadership is getting multiple phone calls demanding they get involved and go over every piece of information related to the shooting they can get till they identify the killer. The ultra-rich won’t let this one slide as one of their own was publicly murdered, so they won’t stop at anything to ensure the killer’s character is publicly murdered so that anyone who tries to copycat or get ideas can equally be ostracized as an outcast.
Even if they don’t the guy, they’ll still find a guy. The illusion of control must be maintained.
Do you think they’ll let him get in front of a jury or will they kill him before they bring him in?
"I want him dead or guilty!’
They’ll kill him and make it look like he went crazy and turned a gun on them or something and it was their only option.
Or he’ll get Epstein’d.
Or he’ll mysteriously fall from a high balcony.
Even if they catch him and hang him, it doesn’t mean that he didn’t accomplish his goal.
If you’re trying to show your untouchable, revenge won’t prove that.
Taking out another CEO would, tho.
The dude that got shot wasn’t a billionaire, not even close. With a net worth of $54 million he’s just as much of a peasant to them as we are.
He wasn’t a billionaire, but he was filthy sticking rich, and made his money by causing untold stress and harm on other people.
I mean his company was already notoriously evil when he was just a high-ranking executive. But he took the helm, and wanted more money by being crueler than that.
Fine, he was a bad dude, but a millionaire getting shot doesn’t “shatter the illusion that billionaires are untouchable” any more than you or me getting shot would
I think you might be wrong there. How much conversation was happening a week ago about actually killing rich folks? I saw it occasionally here on lemmy in the form of ‘eat the rich.’ Out in my meatspace conversations though? Never. There might have been a grumble once a year, or they might agree with a statement about the elite political and financial class not caring about harm done to anyone else. In the last few days, even my normiest of normal friends has been talking about it, even if not directly. Most of the comments aren’t putting the rich in a positive light either.
This event has sparked a great deal of thought about death and taxes.
Jury nullification.
He’s not getting a jury. They’re going to cut him down and say he shot himself so his legacy will be that he was a coward . At least that will be the attempt but it seems like everyone will know better
This exactly my thought. They will do everything to make him crazy or suicidal.The good thing is that someone leak what he wrote on the casing. This makes it clear he is socially motivated. Hopefully, if they ever close in, he will have an online stream up.
He should walk naked into a major TV studio carrying nothing, ask them to call the cops. Force them to accept a surrender.
Hangs self in cell when camera is broken.
I still don’t think the smiling picture is him. Unless he ditched the backpack and jacket, got different ones and then ditched the backpack again.
“He was in the middle of sexually assaulting the news crew.”
Americans really need to google these words if they haven’t already.
Most Americans didn’t see any crime…
You are assuming that this saint protector of the working people could be presumably guilty of a crime
Oh no, I’m not talking about this case. Just in general, it’d be good of Americans to inform themselves on that.
In a private browsing window because if they know you know about it you will never serve on a jury.
Good luck going though the search history of every single person up for jury selection.
Also, a “private window” won’t lean jack shit, just means your local personal files won’t save what you do. Cookies and Google and whatnot still do.
If you want to be anon, use TOR with VPN or at least a VPN.
I don’t think its helpful to combine a Tor and VPNs in most situations. Tor itself should be fine
Vpn with tor can hide the fact that you’re using tor from your isp
It pretty much is the VPN as far as I’ve understood it.
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OK, my bad, I’m not too well versed in the subject
thanks
Second link seems to be down.
Yep, it’s gotten me out of jury duty twice
If people with intelligence and empathy skip out on jury duty, that leaves idiots and sociopaths to judge the accused.
Well unfortunately I have a job and a mortgage. If the trial goes longer than the few days that my employer is forced to pay me, and I’m stuck with the $50 a day the state pays, I’m fucked. I don’t consider living on the street a civic duty.
That’s fair and I’ve had to bail on jury duty for the same reason, although I was able to participate once.
You have to say it six times in a row in front of a mirror with the lights off.
So many resources spent for one dead white guy. I dont imagine every murder gets this much attention and expensive work done on it.
The continued existence of police forces in the US depends on their role as protector of the wealthy. They know they must perform their duty or risk losing the protection of their patrons.
“we’re going to get this guy”
Twist: that’s not the guy that shot him…
That’s 6 words, 7 if you removed the contraction. I think it was the k-9 unit with the lead pipe in the kitchen.
Are they sure someone got hurt? I hope the gangbang worked out for Trisha… If really someone actually did get hurt.
police are still searching for a motive as to why someone would kill Thompson.
Someone assassinates a legal serial killer, and cops are looking for a motive?
Wow, those hiring requirements that disqualify applicants if they have too high of an IQ is really working out well for the police force.
Imagine what happens if they fail, and they can’t even produce a fall guy?
The thing is, Americans know their police force is lazy and useless. We’re all joking about all the murders that will go unsolved that have occurred since the CEO’s death. Now, there’s a real chance that their incompetence will be on full display. Is it really out of the question to think that they have become so impotent that someone could carefully plan and execute an assassination?
I expect they’ll find a fall guy if they can’t find the real killer. Can’t look incompetent when the nation’s watching!
When people wonder why everyone calls police class traitors remember this
In addition to looking for the killer, police are still searching for a motive as to why someone would kill Thompson.
This is definitely where they need to focus their resources first.
Honestly? Yea probably. It’d be fucking amazing if the police ended up releasing a report on just how much UHC fucked this guy or his family/friends over.
It’s clear they haven’t even given it a first look. The guy put the title of the book on the bullet casings
Too bad they can’t read!
Yes. It is extremely bizarre how something like this could happen.
Especially since the president elect already said he could do the same thing one block over, four years ago
I’m convinced. This is a South Park episode.
I mean for all we know it has nothing to do with healthcare premiums. The guy could be a fellow board member who got boned out of a bonus or something.
The message on the bullets would suggest otherwise. To me that seems like an attempt to preempt speculation that the motive had nothing to do with insurance company fuckery.
Could just as easily be a red herring.
I mean, most likely it isn’t internal insurance drama, but it could be.
Besides, how amazing would it be for the cops to say “yeah so we researched this and it was definitely a retaliation execution for all the lives he murdered in his quest for money and power”. Talk about putting the billionaire class on alert haha
Tbf, that’s the largest pool of potential suspects, so it makes sense that they’d want to call police attention in that direction regardless of the actual motive. I do think it’s genuine, but it’s a smart move either way
ah shit. Run, bro.
They’re bluffing. Trying to get him to make a mistake
yea I was wondering about that. But I’m not so sure, it seems plausible that they would have been able to amass footage of him throughout the city
They don’t have that kind of network set up to my knowledge. Maybe in London but not New York.
They also found “his” back with monopoly money in it…
Seems plausible that NYPD are stupid haha
Someone else said they might be counting each frame of a 24fps security camera as a photo, so like less than eight seconds right?
they are so annoyed that they actually have to do any work because the subject was rich.
If he shows up at my door, I’ll gladly house him. You should too.
I said exactly this to my friend on the phone today.
And you don’t have to ask him why he is running. It’s perfectly legal to help a stranger in need without asking them if they broke the law. In fact, it used to be seen as the most Christian thing to do by not judging.
Aiding and abetting murder can result in the same charges and penalties as the principal offender, which could include life in prison without parole
I’m sorry I don’t watch the news, so I have no idea who this person on my couch is, he just looked like a good guy who does good things.
Don’t let them find your Lemmy account.
What is this “Lemmy” you speak of? Never heard of it…
This isn’t true. Harboring someone from the police after they commit a crime makes you an accessory, not a primary.
Edit: to be more concrete and actually cite what I’m saying (my bad), we’ll use federal law since they clearly crossed state lines multiple times in the stages of committing this
act of heroismcrime:An accessory after-the-fact is someone who, knowing a crime was committed, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the offender or in any manner aids them to escape arrest or punishment. See: U.S. v. Triplett, 92 F.2d 1174 (5th Cir. 1991). The aid provided by the defendant to the principal must be given after the principal completes the crime.
The basic elements the government must demonstrate to prove that a defendant was an accessory after-the-fact are: (1) the commission of an underlying crime against the United States; (2) the defendant’s knowledge of that offense; and (3) assistance by the defendant in order to prevent the apprehension, trial, or punishment of the offender. See: U.S. v. White, 135 S. Ct. 1573, 191 L. Ed. 2d 656 (2015); Ellis v. U.S., 806 F. Supp. 2d 538 (E.D. N.Y. 2011).
If enough people are accessories, no one is an accessory
Your statement could be true, but the way you’re presenting it sounds like you’re just letting the oppressors win.
Getting locked up by an oppressor. Whoever heard of that?
Got a loaded shotgun waiting for any pig that thinks I’m going in quietly for doing the right thing
We all should
Big talker aren’t ya
If you’re dumb enough to go into jail when fascism is in charge that’s on you
Its called having a plan and knowing what your government thinks of people like you
That’s the thing about big talkers. They always talk big.
I will take a jury trial ;)
Good luck
it hurts you that people support this guy hehe
good
Doesn’t hurt me. I don’t support murderers
your tone says other wise, my neo lib acolyte
Then you must be in quite a conundrum with who was killed here; if you want justice for the CEO by finding the killer of the CEO, you’re supporting a murderer; if you support the killer of the CEO, you’re supporting a killer.
Tough moral quandary.
Yes, all the death can be laid at the feet of one guy. What a simplistic place to live.
