Spooky Dogwood
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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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I know you're somewhat schizo posting but I think this case is going to be particularly unprecedented - usually people in situations like this act irrationally, take hostages and do all sorts of shit.
The consensus of even Facebook normies is that the death/murder of this CEO in cold blood is "funny":
This CEO isn't some hyper politically connected deepstate faggot. He's just a CEO of a hugely hated health insurance company and he is very difficult for the "average Joe" to have any sympathy for.
The killer (at least so far) was wise to not inject any politics into this - and just left his 3 words on the bullets. So he is going to have sympathy from basically everyone across the board.
A couple of other people have said it in this thread, but there are few times when you will see ResetEra, Reddit, Facebook and Kiwifarms be almost in universal agreement that this is a "good thing" and "justified". Multiple people have pointed out both here and elsewhere that the pool of people this guy has probably impacted by indirectly killing their loved ones is fucking huge, and he had already been receiving threats leading up to this shooting.
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CCTV everywhere is mostly bullshit. You'd be amazed how many cameras are fake, or they're chinese ailbaba nigger-rigs that don't even work right anyway.
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People are starting to notice Nancy Pelosi invested in Palo Alto Networks (a cybersecurity company) the same day they announced they'd be investigating UnitedHealth, following a data breach at the healthcare provider. That investigation was then turned over to the DoJ for reasons not disclosed, and now the UnitedHealth CEO is a corpse. Pelosi's calls were set to expire this upcoming January.
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Well a lot of them are also extremely poor quality too as we're seeing from the pics of the alleged killer that are dropping that don't really do much to help identify him at all.
But they really are almost everywhere in big cities - it is just hugely time consuming for the police to be able to identify "cameras of interest" and either request footage from the owners or go to the effort of putting together a warrant.
In many cases like this where a significant event happens "interesting CCTV" starts dropping days/weeks later after the actual event itself.
High-Fructose Corn Syrup
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Only people who think this is a good thing are brainwashed leftists.
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That smile is dreamy. A modern-day Robin Hood, or something. Godspeed, Insurance Chad.
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I personally couldn't care less why that man murdered that soulless sociopath CEO. The A+ tier memes we've gotten out of this situation make me hope something like it happens again.
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Yeah I'm aware. And I've been the person several times trying to get private CCTV footage. And 9 out of 10 times it's "Oh man our cameras don't work right, they only save footage for 10 minutes!" if they're not just outright broken.
los pepes
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What's the point of ninjaing up and doing all this prep just to get caught in a fucking starbucks with your mask off? Like seriously if you are going this far you have to assume/understand you will be tracked on video every single place you go in the city.
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My theory is he just doesn't give a fuck: https://kiwifarms.st/threads/united...-in-targeted-attack-cops.206228/post-20009036
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I can't wait for the ISD (Institute for Strategic Dialog) to write a report that the media will parade around and use to demand more censorship.
Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing
The New York Times (archive.ph)
By Dionne Searcey and Madison Malone Kircher
2024-12-05 17:07:31GMT
Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows C.E.O.’s Killing
The New York Times (archive.ph)
By Dionne Searcey and Madison Malone Kircher
2024-12-05 17:07:31GMT
The fatal shooting on Wednesday of a top UnitedHealthcare executive, Brian Thompson, on a Manhattan sidewalk has unleashed a torrent of morbid glee from patients and others who say they have had negative experiences with health insurance companies at some of the hardest times of their lives.
“Thoughts and deductibles to the family,” read one comment underneath a video of the shooting posted online by CNN. “Unfortunately my condolences are out-of-network.”
On TikTok, one user wrote, “I’m an ER nurse and the things I’ve seen dying patients get denied for by insurance makes me physically sick. I just can’t feel sympathy for him because of all of those patients and their families.”
The dark commentary after the death of Mr. Thompson, a 50-year-old insurance executive from Maple Grove, Minn., who was also a husband and a father of two children, highlighted the anger and frustration over the state of health care in America, where those with private insurance often find themselves in Kafka-esque tangles while seeking reimbursement for medical treatment and are often denied.
Messages that law enforcement officials say were found on bullet casings at the scene of the shooting in front of a Midtown hotel — “delay” and “deny” — are two words familiar to many Americans who have interacted with insurance companies for almost anything other than routine doctor visits.
Mr. Thompson was chief executive of his company’s insurance division, which reported $281 billion in revenue last year, providing coverage to millions of Americans through the health plans it sold to individuals, employers and people under government programs like Medicare. The division employs roughly 140,000 people.
Mr. Thompson received a $10.2 million compensation package last year, a combination of $1 million in base pay and cash and stock grants. He was shot to death as he was walking toward the annual investor day for UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare’s parent company.
Stephan Meier, the chair of the management division at Columbia Business School, said the attack could send shock waves through the broader health insurance industry.
About seven chief executives of publicly traded companies die each year, he said, but almost always from health complications or accidents. A targeted attack could have much larger implications.
“The insurance industry is not the most loved, to put it mildly,” Mr. Meier said. “If you’re a C-suite executive of another insurance company, I would be thinking, What’s this mean for me? Am I next?”
A longtime employee of UnitedHealthcare said that workers at the company had been aware for years that members were unhappy. Mr. Thompson was one of the few executives who wanted to do something about it, said the employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the company does not allow workers to speak publicly without permission.
In speeches to employees, Mr. Thompson spoke about the need to change the state of health care coverage in the country and the culture of the company, topics other executives avoided, the employee said.
Already, there is heightened concern among some public-facing health care companies, said Eric Sean Clay, the president of the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety. The trade group includes members that offer security to some of the largest health care companies in North America.
“The C.E.O.s are quite often the most visible face of an organization,” he said. “Sometimes people hate on that individual, and wish to do them harm.”
But few health care companies provide security for their executives, he said, in part to avoid bad optics, or because it may seem unnecessary.
In the hours after the shooting early Wednesday morning, social media exploded with anger toward the insurance industry and Mr. Thompson.
“I pay $1,300 a month for health insurance with an $8,000 deductible. ($23,000 yearly) When I finally reached that deductible, they denied my claims. He was making a million dollars a month,” read one comment on TikTok.
Another commenter wrote, “This needs to be the new norm. EAT THE RICH.”
“The ambulance ride to the hospital probably won’t be covered,” wrote a commenter on a TikTok video in which another user featured an audio clip from the Netflix show “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.” In it, the queen makes a dramatic show of faux sorrow over a death.
“Thoughts and deductibles to the family,” read one comment underneath a video of the shooting posted online by CNN. “Unfortunately my condolences are out-of-network.”
On TikTok, one user wrote, “I’m an ER nurse and the things I’ve seen dying patients get denied for by insurance makes me physically sick. I just can’t feel sympathy for him because of all of those patients and their families.”
The dark commentary after the death of Mr. Thompson, a 50-year-old insurance executive from Maple Grove, Minn., who was also a husband and a father of two children, highlighted the anger and frustration over the state of health care in America, where those with private insurance often find themselves in Kafka-esque tangles while seeking reimbursement for medical treatment and are often denied.
Messages that law enforcement officials say were found on bullet casings at the scene of the shooting in front of a Midtown hotel — “delay” and “deny” — are two words familiar to many Americans who have interacted with insurance companies for almost anything other than routine doctor visits.
Mr. Thompson was chief executive of his company’s insurance division, which reported $281 billion in revenue last year, providing coverage to millions of Americans through the health plans it sold to individuals, employers and people under government programs like Medicare. The division employs roughly 140,000 people.
Mr. Thompson received a $10.2 million compensation package last year, a combination of $1 million in base pay and cash and stock grants. He was shot to death as he was walking toward the annual investor day for UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare’s parent company.
Stephan Meier, the chair of the management division at Columbia Business School, said the attack could send shock waves through the broader health insurance industry.
About seven chief executives of publicly traded companies die each year, he said, but almost always from health complications or accidents. A targeted attack could have much larger implications.
“The insurance industry is not the most loved, to put it mildly,” Mr. Meier said. “If you’re a C-suite executive of another insurance company, I would be thinking, What’s this mean for me? Am I next?”
A longtime employee of UnitedHealthcare said that workers at the company had been aware for years that members were unhappy. Mr. Thompson was one of the few executives who wanted to do something about it, said the employee, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the company does not allow workers to speak publicly without permission.
In speeches to employees, Mr. Thompson spoke about the need to change the state of health care coverage in the country and the culture of the company, topics other executives avoided, the employee said.
Already, there is heightened concern among some public-facing health care companies, said Eric Sean Clay, the president of the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety. The trade group includes members that offer security to some of the largest health care companies in North America.
“The C.E.O.s are quite often the most visible face of an organization,” he said. “Sometimes people hate on that individual, and wish to do them harm.”
But few health care companies provide security for their executives, he said, in part to avoid bad optics, or because it may seem unnecessary.
In the hours after the shooting early Wednesday morning, social media exploded with anger toward the insurance industry and Mr. Thompson.
“I pay $1,300 a month for health insurance with an $8,000 deductible. ($23,000 yearly) When I finally reached that deductible, they denied my claims. He was making a million dollars a month,” read one comment on TikTok.
Another commenter wrote, “This needs to be the new norm. EAT THE RICH.”
“The ambulance ride to the hospital probably won’t be covered,” wrote a commenter on a TikTok video in which another user featured an audio clip from the Netflix show “Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.” In it, the queen makes a dramatic show of faux sorrow over a death.
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this is so poorly written, but oh, so satisfying to imagine ...
literally the only thing that corporations like this, and executives like this, care about is "growth".
fuck every single one of them.
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Exactly. It’s likely he’d be identified within days if not hours no matter what, so he just accepts it’s going to happen and only takes cursory measures.
He’s either got a brilliant escape plan and will hide out in Chile or something, or will go out in a hail of bullets. There’s going to be a manifesto either way I bet.
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We should charge you for murdering that toilet.
That would be more shocking than the murder.
The only sure way not to get caught is to not do the crime.
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Oh yeah rate me late but UHC took down the page listing all their execs.
MunsterCheeseJr
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This guy will 100% be identified now. If he doesn't have a medical death sentence already, he had better have planned an escape out of the US to a safe nation.
The only other possible saving throw he has is if there is a mass push for jury nullification to saturate the media so much that at least on person on the jury refuses to convict him.
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Grimoire Canthari
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The Hostel denied seeing him? Based Hostel workers being real Patriots
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Forgot to post this yesterday for archiving sake.
In surveillance video obtained by The Post, the suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson appears to exit a Manhattan subway stop. (Video: Obtained by The Washington Post)
In surveillance video obtained by The Post, the suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson appears to exit a Manhattan subway stop. (Video: Obtained by The Washington Post)