UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson fatally shot outside Hilton hotel in Midtown in targeted attack: cops - Just Part and Parcel of visiting a Big City

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Otterly said:
A while back I worked for a mid size company where the (actually OK) CEO was ousted. He’d created the company from the ground up and was a decent bloke - I used to know his secretary, never a bad word said about him, suspect secretly based due to a few things I heard.
Anyway, he ‘leaves to spend more time with the family’ and company gets a new MBA type flown in and immediately goes full DEI but in such bizarre ways. They started putting policies in place that were cartoonishly bad for us and people started leaving. Share price just tanked, and ended up about a sixth of the high. They started firing everyone good high up and then I realised they were just reducing the age bill so it looks cheaper on paper and running it into the floor to be bought up cheap. I got offered a new job elsewhere and took it, and two weeks (lol) later they got bought out by some private consortium. They paid about 20% of what the company had previously been worth. Shareholders got fucked completely, they got pennies on the dollar for their shares in the buyout.

I remain convinced that the entire thing was a deliberate ploy to drive the wage bill and the worth right down so it could be bought cheap. it was a very interesting thing to witness from inside. I have absolutely no doubt that it was a controlled demolition and that this kind of thing happens quite a bit
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Happens all the time actually.

Your company failed the vetting process if they let her in, or someone got paid out nicely.
 
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Not A Cat Person said:
That's a pistol with a silencer on it, which has not been properly adjusted to fire with a silencer attached, so that it does not fully cycle and has to be manually cycled (i.e. it jams). Little bit sloppy.
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meaning that each of those items are recent purchases that have never been properly ran at the range.

Sloppy and amature.
 
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Snekposter said:
Shooter must have been rolling a crit build if he was using anything in .22, but he got a bonus from the Sneak Attack and against an unarmored target, so...
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That's what I was thinking. If he was using a Ruger Mk IV, he had to have really good shot placement, or scored a head shot (the video thus far is unclear), or something like that. .22lr can be lethal, and has been favored by assassins, but shot placement is critical.
 
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reptile baht spaniard rid said:
That wasn't a one pump chump or a two hit wonder; that was one two buckle my shoe, three four out the door or more.
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Clean reloads, cleared a jam, used a sports pistol that probably sounded like a wet fart going through a can to not attract attention. Had a bike in the alley for an escape and stood around all day apparently and no one confronted or got a good look at him.

He aimed, shot then reloaded looks like 4 times and finished him off.

100% a pro.
BikeLock said:
meaning that each of those items are recent purchases that have never been properly ran at the range.

Sloppy and amature.
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Could you tell me how a Sloppy amature (sp) could get a silencer especially for a pistol in New York City?

Not like you can go to a gun store or amazon one. And it didn't look like an oil filter.
 
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BikeLock said:
meaning that each of those items are recent purchases that have never been properly ran at the range.

Sloppy and amature.
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Amateur enough he pulled it off, though, especially with the clean getaway.

I guarantee you the cops, even the Feds, are going to do their best to find this guy because right now there's video footage circulating around of exactly how fucking easy it is to get away with literal murder (plan a little bit ahead and don't be a fucking mong), and they're not going to want any follow-ups.
 
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I like how these people are so hated it would be impossible to pin down who killed him.

It could of been an investor in his trillion dollar company, a board member looking for a new ceo, the US Government (left) the US Government (right) The father of a cancer kid who had their claim denied, a foreign government, a rival company.
 
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Yeah probably just using subsonic ammo in whatever it is and having to manually cycle the gun as a result. Nothing too odd there though if using subsonic ammo it's way more thought out than your average big shitty street hit.

Otterly said:
A while back I worked for a mid size company where the (actually OK) CEO was ousted. He’d created the company from the ground up and was a decent bloke - I used to know his secretary, never a bad word said about him, suspect secretly based due to a few things I heard.
Anyway, he ‘leaves to spend more time with the family’ and company gets a new MBA type flown in and immediately goes full DEI but in such bizarre ways. They started putting policies in place that were cartoonishly bad for us and people started leaving.
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Many such cases I've been through pretty much this exact thing. The second part never happened to my knowledge but I did leave a company shortly after the "company culture" started changing drastically right after the original CEO suddenly left and was replaced by someone much more corporate CEO like.
 
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Tiggletown said:
I like how these people are so hated it would be impossible to pin down who killed him.

It could of been an investor in his trillion dollar company, a board member looking for a new ceo, the US Government (left) the US Government (right) The father of a cancer kid who had their claim denied, a foreign government, a rival company.
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You missed the wife
 
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Snekposter said:
I guarantee you the cops, even the Feds, are going to do their best to find this guy because right now there's video footage circulating around of exactly how fucking easy it is to get away with literal murder (plan a little bit ahead and don't be a fucking mong), and they're not going to want any follow-ups.
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People get gunned down on the streets of America all the time. Nobody gives a shit.

A CEO of one of the largest managed health care companies gets capped, and it's "Oh shit! Mobilize everything!"

Tell me this has nothing to do with political campaign contributions, or anything else to do with $$$.

Another thing is, if this was a planned hit (as it certainly appears to be) this guy probably isn't a massive danger to the public at large.
 
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