cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22793020
Summary
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, was fatally shot in a premeditated attack outside the New York Hilton Midtown in Manhattan. The gunman, still at large, fired at Thompson multiple times, striking him in the back and calf.
Shell casings found at the scene had the words "deny," "defend," and "depose" written on them, according to law enforcement. Despite known threats, Thompson did not have a security detail.
Surveillance footage shows the assailant ambushing Thompson from behind before fleeing. The motive remains unclear as investigations continue.
It's a book reference: https://delaydenydefend.com/
Makes me so happy that this is turning out to be a vigilante and not a hit man. Last night I was kind of bummed that the media was saying it wasn't but now it's looking like it was. Good speed hero! :07:
IDK, it could still be a hitman. Like how you can buy a cake that says "Happy Birthday, SorosFoorSoldier"
Because they bought it already and the ingredients won't last long sitting in the cake box
Oh god yes please, that would give me life and hope.
Especially if this hero gets away with it for any amount of time. If people see that these vampires aren't as untouchable as they'd like us to think we might get more
Early start to four years of Republican-led chaos maybe?
Not to absolve the Democrats of upholding the status quo, but it tends to be less all-out chaotic. Edit: I guess the Trump shooting attempts were some chaos, but it's still directly tied to Trump.
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Its a book reference
These viral marketing campaigns by publishers as going pretty far
When he gets shot the first time, the CEO ragdolls like the NPCs in GTA IV instead of just falling to the ground like a sack of potatoes. Pretty cool, real life proves GTA IV has awesome physics
And it is also very cool a CEO was shot and killed in the middle of Manhattan
After seeing the video, the fact that anyone doubted the targeting at first is crazy.
It looks straight out of a movie.
Dude made the two would-be Trump assassins look like a joke. Suppressor, subsonic rounds, engraved shell casings, calmly cycles the weapon between shots. Doesn't look like anyone around even noticed what was happening.
Only the last like right next time noticed anything and not until the second shot atleast. Subtle and fast is the way it seems
Based what the fuck this is real? He wasn't just a professional hitman?
I mean it still could've been, making it seem like he was some kind of folk hero would be a pretty good cover, but doing so would also be incredibly poor optics considering you're just reinforcing everyone's hatred of healthcare providers. That's assuming it's a competitor.
IMO who knows, who cares? He's already a legend and I'll take it.
Allow me to play unqualified detective here: this seems too risky for a professional hit. Faking suicide seems a lot safer. Why risk doing it in public in front of witnesses and potentially in front of cops? NYC is crawling with cops on every corner, plus all the cameras everywhere. Why wouldn’t they Epstein him or you know…he accidentally “falls out a window?” Or even poison?
I think vigilante is most likely because the shooter did not have access to the victim the way a pro hitman probably would.
yeah true, if they just wanted the guy dead for business reasons they definitely wouldnt have wanted a huge news story
Right. I’m thinking of the Boeing whistleblowers. That was a big news story and clearly a professional hit job but there’s still plausible deniability. Whereas when you shoot someone on the street in Manhattan, there is no question of it being a homicide. That plus the bullet casings points to the shooter wanting it to be a huge story. And if you’re hiring a hitman, you don’t want a huge police investigation. Obviously with a “suicide” there will be a death investigation but the way the shooter carried this out pretty much guaranteed FBI involvement. I would think hitmen on a corporate payroll would want to avoid that.
Shout out to the hexbears who correctly guessed he was shot in the calf first and couldn't move
Where is the full video? I can’t find one that doesn’t cut out before the shots are fired.
Yes, tankie.tube. You may want to use a VPN however, because it runs on Peertube, which allows seeding the videos you watch via P2P to decrease the loads on the server, but that also means other people can determine what you are watching.
!movies@hexbear.net also uses it to host some of the movies they watch on their movie nights (american nights) (https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies) so you may also want to use a VPN if you are someone who takes part in the movie nights.
lol, insurance CEOs going to be looking over their shoulder moving forward
"the motive remains unclear"
They lie, knowing the motive is to annihilate the ghouls that enforce this system of needless suffering on us all, and knowing that it won't be long until we come for them too
Bullet flies through the sky, I've been Riddlerfied. Reading Rainbow!
Given how good the guy was at shooting an unarmed civilian I was kinda thinking it was a dirty cop which would indicate the hit theory.
However, with all this I am leaning more towards ex-military disgruntled type. I dunno. Cause you can get good at using a gun but getting good st shooting people feels like a diffrent skill to me.
I really think anyone who was big into firearms or a professional hitman probably would have tested their setup first and made sure the gun cycled with the ammo and suppressor
This seems like someone who read up on shit online and bought it but did not practice with it
One could also test their setup and understand that the gun needs to be cycled manually and be prepared to do that. Not a big deal if your target is unarmed.
The way he actioned the gun after the first shot seems very practiced, it's only between 2 and 3 he seems to have trouble. Even then he clears it quickly enough for the third shot.
I think he already knew the gun with silencer and subsonics wouldn't action automatically.
Probably is hard to find a range in NY to practice shooting a silenced gun. I still think the shooting a person and not freaking out after is hard work
there are plenty of wooded areas all over the state, wouldn't be too hard to find a secluded area to go shoot for a while
yeah I mean not saying it's easy
and if they stayed in a hostel they probably weren't from nyc?
50/50 if they weren't from NYC that really increases the ammount of work he had to do to prep. So the NSA could probably pinpoint them from search history Metadata. If they are a NYC resident staying at a hostel to create a fake trail is a good plan also
I'm so so on the fake trail thing, considering it leaked photos of their face for no reason, but depends how sophisticated they were, could be done in a way that really throws the feds off their scent or it could be just sloppiness
hopefully they're running to cuba or something as we speak but thats definitely cope lol
I am assuming the backpack had a change of clothes. If it were me I would have had two mismatched shoe lifts to throw off gait analysis, colored contacts, some cheap jewelry. Like a pendant for a religion that isn't mine and a high-school ring for a place I didn't go to.
Jathan "Mr Insuretech" Sadowski better be cooking on next ep of This Machine Kills
