No gun found in backpack recovered in Central Park, police say
www.msnbc.com
The New York Police Department says they did not find a gun inside the backpack they recovered in Central Park that potentially belonged to the person of interest in the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting. A jacket and Monopoly money were among some of the things found in the backpack.
    • Bureaucrat
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      11 天前

      My friend sent me that while I was out running errands and I spent a good minute cackling over it in the car.

      • VILenin [he/him]
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        11 天前

        But did you file your Petition for Authorization for Momentary Cackling to the Humor Committee beforehand, and was it approved?

  • dannoffs [he/him]
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    11 天前

    Every couple hours the NYPD is chiming in to remind you this guy is rad as hell.

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    11 天前

    There's no way this guy is this incredibly based and incredibly smart. There's just no way.

    • Bureaucrat
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      11 天前

      The FBI raised the bounty to $50k, to lure him into a false sense of security.

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      11 天前

      Adams: "I'm not saying if we also found red houses or green houses or a silver top hat that's as big as those houses or the deed to Atlantic Avenue but the net keeps gettin' tighter and he no longer has that stuff so he can't barter it..."

  • tombruzzo [none/use name]
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    11 天前

    I like to think someone else put this there and reported it as a bit and everyone is just joining in on fucking with the NYPD

  • Taster_Of_Treats [none/use name]
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    11 天前

    Are we even sure that the backpack they found was put there by the adjuster? Because the entire country knew they were canvassing central park for the bag in real time. And leaving the actual jacket he wore is risky because there could be DNA left on it. Hopefully the backpack and jacket were scrubbed clean.

    • Acute_Engles [he/him, any]
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      11 天前

      Not even a little bit sure but i think it's still just as funny if it's someone playing a prank

    • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]
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      11 天前

      DNA is only good to confirm they have the right guy. Ditching the attire you were filmed with is far more important.

      • Aradina [She/They]@lemmy.ml
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        11 天前

        DNA can also be matched using DNA services like 23 and me or whatever. If the shooter or a family member has ever traced their ancestry with that it could be used to catch them

        • ZWQbpkzl [none/use name]
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          11 天前

          Have they ever actually done that though? I don't think they've ever caught someone because they dropped a pube their aunt took a 23 and me.

        • BakerBagel@midwest.social
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          11 天前

          You sont even need to have sent them a sample. Tou just need about a dozen distant relatives you have never even heard of submit a sample and the authorities can track you down, like people you only share a set of great-grandparents.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    11 天前

    would be funny if someone just bought a duplicate after the news dropped and left it in central park to throw the cops off lol

  • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]
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    11 天前

    How do we even know the CEO's dead? Or that the killer even exists?

    I find it more likely that the story is fake

    Imagine being 4 days in and still not being able to find someone's killer using the biggest police dept in the world, larger than most countries' armies, inside of a tiny city with 20 CCTV cameras on every block

    And imagine having a $10,000 info reward for someone whose net worth is $50,000,000 .

    either the killer doesn't exist, or the NYPD is refusing to find him because he was killed by capital

      • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]
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        11 天前

        they're only incompetent when they want to be

        if they want to be incompetent here it's because someone else rich is benefitting them

        anyway, good riddance but yea

          • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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            11 天前

            Yeah. I remember reading the statistics for cases "solved", and there is a huge gap between crimes against "property", and crimes against "people". The police force has much more know-how dealing with theft and other kinds of similar crimes than they do with murder, assault, SA, and so on.

            • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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              11 天前

              I found it really surprising when i heard how low the number of solved murder cases in the US is. Apparently it's something around 20%. Over here, it's in the 70-80% ballpark.

              • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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                11 天前

                And even then, the % is not such a good metric to look at. Japan has a nearly 100% conviction rate for murder , but it's because they'll just accuse whoever and once you've been charged you're as good as convicted.

                • miz [any, any]
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                  11 天前

                  reminds me of this case where a Japanese hacker hijacked people's computers to make death threats and the police coerced confessions out of four of them

                  https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31129817

    • dannoffs [he/him]
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      11 天前

      Conspiracy theory: the CEO's body just did that and the "shooter" was pointing at him in shock.

        • Bureaucrat
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          11 天前

          Considering the first bullet didn't kill him, I would say he had a pre-existing condition by the time the third one did him in

    • Wheaties [she/her]
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      11 天前

      What would other capitalists have to gain from killing this guy?

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      11 天前

      Imagine being 4 days in and still not being able to find someone's killer using the biggest police dept in the world, larger than most countries' armies, inside of a tiny city with 20 CCTV cameras on every block

      They've got CCTV footage along his entire getaway route up until the point where he entered the Port Authority bus terminal. The reason they haven't found him is that he immediately left NYC in the least traceable way possible. He was already on a bus out of town when they were still investigating the scene of the shooting. Nothing mysterious about that.

    • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]
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      11 天前

      Also, why would UnitedHealthcare reward the terrorists (their perspective) by reneging on the surgery premiums, thereby showing people that violence will be rewarded?

      This feels a lot like the public's understanding of police brutality, where everyone thinks that 1 guy at the top controls everything, when in reality it's the 2 lower rings of power below them (lieutenants). This feels like the board of directors holding CEOs accountable (to them), maybe because Brian was squeezing the public too hard too fast

        • Hello_Kitty_enjoyer [none/use name]
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          11 天前

          CEOs alone don't control everything and large amounts of power are distributed among a small group of people

          those people can hold the top accountable

          squeezing too hard builds revolutionary sentiment

          • dannoffs [he/him]
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            11 天前

            If you actually think the other executives at United Health had him killed because he was squeezing the public too hard you need to lay off the mafia movies for a bit.

    • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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      10 天前

      50M net worth

      Insanely wealthier than most of us could imagine, yet somehow the same proportion of a typical billionnaire's wealth, that an average American's is to his.