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

[veritarded]

>grifter with a non real job whos entire job revolves around making money off the workers by speaking in a mic talking about ethics

didn’t he also talk shit on people who call out of work for being sick and called them lazy? he’s an elite level corporate shill and he would be the type of guy to run a sweatshop if labor laws didn’t exist

 

[lIllllIiiiiLLLLiiiiIIIIll]

Him coming from a healthcare family and basically not really running from the cops, then being found with a backpack full of incriminating evidence makes me think he has a screw loose. This probably has more to do with daddy than with capitalism or whatever.

Yeah this latest turn has given me a whiff of "Elliot Rodgers" off him. Just like a wealthy trust fund kid who looksmaxxes but is deeply unhappy because it's all not perfect enough.

 

[clipartfan92]

the bad actor basically has access to a .gov email address or system from some real government (US or not) and they send through an email requesting information and almost all online services instantly comply with this

For more on this...
FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

 

[CharlesBarkley]

If this is true then it reminds me of the Japanese Shinzo Abe shooter, a man driven to assassination because they fucked with his mother.

Abe Shinzo fucked that guys mom? Damn, I knew he wanted to make Japanese people have sex but THAT IS GOING TOO FAR!

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

Yeah this latest turn has given me a whiff of "Elliot Rodgers" off him. Just like a wealthy trust fund kid who looksmaxxes but is deeply unhappy because it's all not perfect enough.

I think people are underestimating chronic back pain here. He was also apparently active and in-shape, so it wasn't your usual back pain from being a slob.

 

[neger psykolog]

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/09/nyregion/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-news

 

[clipartfan92]

That Manhunt Photo Looks Like a Loved One. Do You Have to Tell?
The New York Times (archive.ph)
By Andy Newman
2024-12-10 02:45:36GMT

Spoiler

If someone you know is the subject of a nationwide manhunt and the authorities are desperately trying to learn the person’s name, are you under any legal obligation to come forward with it?

The answer is, in a word, no.

“There’s no legal duty to report,” said Rachel Barkow, a professor at New York University Law School. “That’s why they offer rewards, to try to entice people to do it.”

The New York Police Department offered $10,000 for information about the killing of the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, outside a hotel in Midtown Manhattan last week. The F.B.I. posted a $50,000 reward.

Photos of the man with distinctive eyebrows wanted in connection with the killing were circulated by the police and viewed by millions of Americans, making it likely that at least a few people who saw them recognized the subject.

Ms. Barkow said it can be illegal to harbor a wanted felon, and some people are mandated to report if they learn of certain crimes — like teachers who are required to report child abuse.

There is also a federal offense called “misprision of felony,” which requires someone who has “knowledge of the actual commission” of a federal felony to report that felony to the authorities.

But the killing of Mr. Thompson is likely to be prosecuted under New York State law, not federally, and New York has no such reporting requirement.

In any event, knowing the identity of someone who is believed to have committed a crime is not the same as knowing that the person committed the crime. In such situations, average citizens — including the suspect’s family and friends — are free to keep their mouths shut.

“We might have moral objections to people who don’t do things,” Ms. Barkow said, “but they’re not subject to criminal prosecution.”[/quote]

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

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https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12/09/nyregion/unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting-news

I'm guessing those are just the initial charges so they can get him extradited to NY from PA

 

[Breadbassket]

I think people are underestimating chronic back pain here. He was also apparently active and in-shape, so it wasn't your usual back pain from being a slob.

Someone posted his Twitter account history in the thread a few hours ago. I think in a screenshot it showed that it said he had broken his spine somehow. Perhaps he had some accident?

 

[CallmeCicada]

He's Italian so he isn't white.

@Éamonn Ceannt, told ya.

 

[CaliforniaRaisin]

How dumb of a greasy Italian do you have to be to cart around the ghost gun for almost a week and through interstate travel? Like... Dismantle it and leave pieces of it in separate dumpsters, bodies of water, and any other nook or cranny you find along the way.

 

[Nigger_Faggot]

Fed. prison healthcare. They will actually troon you out if you want, you would have to fight that with UHC.

Can confirm; worked in a prison system, you will be cared for at no cost to you.

 

[CansOfCant]

@Éamonn Ceannt, told ya.

 

[Coldgrip]

There's a better chance of New York being swallowed by a giant sinkhole. Billionaires will be making an example of this guy, even if he wasn't the actual killer.

Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter if they make him denounce his actions, doesn't matter if they make an example out of him, the plebs know the elite can be killed. Seeing America cheer that bloodsucker's death has rattled them and they know that whatever happens, the public isn't going to forget that killing the elites is a viable option.

 

[Red Saltire]

How dumb of a greasy Italian do you have to be to cart around the ghost gun for almost a week and through interstate travel? Like... Dismantle it and leave pieces of it in separate dumpsters, bodies of water, and any other nook or cranny you find along the way.

100%. This made me think he either had another target in mind near PA, or that he just has a screw loose and is not making rational decisions.

 

[COME ON OUT YOU RAPIST]

Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter if they make him denounce his actions, doesn't matter if they make an example out of him, the plebs know the elite can be killed. Seeing America cheer that bloodsucker's death has rattled them and they know that whatever happens, the public isn't going to forget that killing the elites is a viable option.

We already know all that. The thing protecting billionaires is whether or not the consequences are worth it to go and take shots at them. I'm guessing they will go after his family and either charge them with just enough crime to bankrupt them, or go full Brazil and arrange some accidents.

 

[lIllllIiiiiLLLLiiiiIIIIll]

How dumb of a greasy Italian do you have to be to cart around the ghost gun for almost a week and through interstate travel? Like... Dismantle it and leave pieces of it in separate dumpsters, bodies of water, and any other nook or cranny you find along the way.

With how carefully everything else initially seemed to be handled, I would have bet money yesterday that the gun was already sitting deep at the bottom of an NYC-adjacent body of water. Can't believe they found the weapon on him.

Also very surprised he chose to sit anywhere in public. He could have holed up for a long time, pretending it's COVID and he's a lib just getting doordash for months.

 

[XYZpdq Jr.]

"Conservatives stand for law, justice, and a stable, properly ordered society."

I guess Luigi should have organized a protest outside of UHC headquarters and when he didn't get a response, whine about it on social media. Does that sound about right, Matt?

like that time the Founding Fathers got permits to orderly demonstrate and then quietly dispersed until the redcoats went back to England

I'm certain that whatever "value-based care" UHC has been considering would be nothing more than a propaganda line to justify not paying claims. It's the same as how "save the environment" has become code for "own nothing, live in a pod and eat bugs." Maybe the value-based care would involve jacking up your premiums if you don't take zombifying SSRIs as a "proactive mental health measure" and penalizing your for driving because of the higher chance of injury. Basically encouraging subscribers to devolve into bughivers with a predictable health trajectory, eventually dying of inactivity-related illness with no family to sue the insurer for denying their claims.

yeah "value-based care" is just the current buzzword about squeezing every dime

 

[Bindo]

Also very surprised he chose to sit anywhere in public. He could have holed up for a long time, pretending it's COVID and he's a lib just getting doordash for months.

This was what I half expected him to do. I was wondering if he actually left town, the grocery delivery/doordash strat would be viable for months if sufficient funds were available, even more so if supplies were laid in in the 10 days he spent doing setup.

 

[Prokhor Zakharov]

100%. This made me think he either had another target in mind near PA, or that he just has a screw loose and is not making rational decisions.

I'd say it's likely he is a person with a strong moral and ethical sense and thought he was doing the right thing, but after doing so, it created a severe cognitive dissonance in him. Between his likely strong, Christian values that expressly forbid murder, and his belief that what he did was for the best of all the people suffering under UHC as a healthcare provider there would have been an inherent and severe conflict. He likely couldn't reconcile the two and it lead to him suffering severe psychological and cognitive agony, which lead to him making less than calculated moves going forward. This is not uncommon in people who commit murder that aren't psychopathic. They underestimate the psychological toll of murder, even if they believe it is absolutely justified. It's an easy way to tell the difference between the true psychopaths that murder and a normal person who does so in an extreme circumstance but is otherwise psychologically functional.