Also remember, things are newsworthy because they're novel. US sees like 2 gun deaths per day and thousands due to insurance company malpractice, but this one death dominates newscycles.
As one user wrote on Bluesky, “The reward out for the person who shot United Healthcare’s CEO isn’t even enough to cover 1/9 of the bill we got for 28 days of radiation.”
I’m waiting for the copycats with bated breath.
There is a way for the rest of the CEOs to avoid joining this guy. I wonder if anyone can figure it out...
Oh I know, expensive security detail, bullet proof cars, and remote, fortified homes?
His company is offering one free appeal of a claim denial for information leading to his arrest!
This is an I'm spartacus moment. Everybody in america should be doing their utmost to ensure the authorities have an overwhelming amount of information and leads to follow to ensure that the investigation eventually concludes with the result most in the interests of the people.
Don't get prison time by giving false information to the police. That's a crime.
Yeah but I think a lot of guys look like him. It's probably best that I call in every. single. one.
Anonymous tips are a thing. Call from a burner phone at a crowded bar, send an email from a temp mail site you accessed on public wifi using a laptop you bought that day from AliExpress that was shipped to a fake name and public addess that you then donate to goodwill. Create a mechanical pigeon out of scrap you find in the trash while wearing gloves whose entire purpose is to play an recorded message using a common AI voice tts that gets left outside a precinct by a bike courier that you paid in cash while wearing a mask.
Be the slop drama hero the media has trained you to be since birth.
This hero brought a mass murderer to justice.
There is no way I snitch if this guy's kid or mom were killed by this company's CEO greed and decisions, and no court or system would bring him justice. let them fix the system which kills people lives first
If I serve on his jury, I’ll for sure push for nullification.
Sure he broke a law, we can all acknowledge that.
But was he wrong? (Based on the overall reaction I’d argue society doesn’t think so, and that’s where laws come from) Or are the laws, allowing things to get to a place where this is understandable behavior, wrong?
Self defense. He wasn't wrong, he was forced to act because someone else was using deadly force against millions of Americans.
I don’t think self defense could be stretched that far, honestly.
But that’s why jury nullification exists. His actions were legally wrong but morally/situationally not, so you let them walk.
I love when the largest police force in the world has to [normal part of police work].
Dont snitch btw, mans a hero.
Snitches get stitches - unless you are denied coverage.
Love it.
Also have to wonder how many random unrelated and innocent men would have been ~~summarily executed~~ "killed in self defence by police" by now were the shooter Black.
Me when a CEO gets his head blown off right in front of me:
Call every tipline and report the person responsible for this death and many others - That person's name was Brian Thompson.
I hope that backpack becomes a bestseller and a symbol.
I have it, great backpack.
https://www.peakdesign.com/products/everyday-backpack?Size=20L&Color=Ash
What if this assassination is all a viral marketing campaign? 🤔
Ah yes, thousands of similar looking men "steal his look" and walk the streets of manhatten. I'd love to see it.
Any idea what model of gun he used? Have to match the WHOLE outfit 😉
"Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who critique capital end up reinforcing it instead..."
Snitches get stitches...
curious the man didn't use a better disguise. Just shading eyebrows, changing skin tone, a cheap prosthetic nose, maybe some gauze inside the mouth to change face shape. Sometimes the old spy tricks are the best.
How do you know he didn't disguise himself?
That could be a Black woman with extensive makeup.
US sees like 2 gun deaths per day
Are you sure about that? NYC alone has around 1 murder per day, and I'd assume that most are gun related.
I am not sure at all. I might have been thinking of mass shootings instead :D
Reminder: Snitches get stitches, and those stitches may not be covered by your insurance.
Setting aside how we feel about the deceased as well as the police, it's not much of a dunk to be like "I can't believe they're asking the public for information!" Assuming good cops and immoral criminals this is what we'd want the police to be doing.
Anyone thought about inundating the tip lines with useless tips to help our hero?
Be sure to only submit one tip per phone number / IP address and take real numbers (Address, phone number, etc) then fudge them a little, it makes it much harder to filter out (my job used to be filtering tips like this). Area code needs to match tip area, for example.
We should cover all the deaths from denied health coverage instead.
It's the face of an angel.
but this one death dominates newscycles.
Step 1: be white
Step 2: be rich, or a young, attractive female
Step 3: dominate
attractive female
Really? Right in front of my salad?
Someone drop the crowdfund link to build a monument for this hero.
Here's one that wasn't shown in the post
HAS ANYONE SEEN JERMA RECENTLY??
K, is it just me, or is he pretty hot? Easy on the eyes AND a social justice crusader? How YOU doin'?!
They can't all go looking, they've got homeless people to harass.
Seems to be a white male, age 20 - 48, 150 - 220 lbs, somewhere between 5"4' and 6'2. Best I can do.
"no I don't think I will."
Feel like for 15 years cops approach to solving crimes has been surf Facebook.
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