• @Sanctus@lemmy.world
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    1514 months ago

    MSNBC said on Saturday that police examining the bag and its contents found a jacket and Monopoly money, but no firearm.

    Thats a plant. They aren’t as close as they say they are. Also 60k as a reward for betraying your entire class? Lmao you better pay kingmaker money.

        • @marcos@lemmy.world
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          254 months ago

          Yeah, that one is officially not from him.

          And the police has been officially never wrong about it, and has been looking for that one guy to interrogate only, maybe ask where he brought his jacket or something like that.

        • Plum
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          4 months ago

          Here’s a better one. NYPD doesn’t know what the fuck they’re after.

          • LiveLM
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            4 months ago

            So did this guy have a team of decoys running around with him or did the stars align to explicitly fuck that CEO over? lmao

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              184 months ago

              My take is that the cops fed raw surveillance data into their trusty Crime Computer and fully trusted the result. It’s a super common silhouette when the daily high temp is in the 30s. Lol.

            • @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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              184 months ago

              It’s New York. That look is probably very common. Hence why our hero chose it as a disguise.

              Also he probably quickly changed his clothes in central park. So a possible thing is that he also changed his hoodie and had a different mask.

              But having four different coats? Hard to believe.

        • @Nanook@lemm.ee
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          114 months ago

          Yeah there’s also one from within a bank, but it’s totally a different person

    • @henfredemars@infosec.pub
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      504 months ago

      I feel like that’s possibly a prelude to setting up a scapegoat. You can’t let people think he got away with it.

      • Cruxifux
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        184 months ago

        I think that’s entirely possible. If this guy gets away Scott free and people know he did? Expect more attempts at CEO murder.

    • NutWrench
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      44 months ago

      This. As a juror, you can absolutely vote to not convict someone if you think they’re being prosecuted under an unjust law. Just don’t mention “jury nullification” in front of a judge or prosecutors. They hate that.

      • @Allonzee@lemmy.world
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        I hope some way to donate to his defense fund opens up.

        I wish I could take his consequences so he could remain free.

        I’m a coward that takes the beatings and whinges on the internet, he is a man who won’t accept defeat, even under entrenched oligarch occupation.

    • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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      I’m not usually a conspiracy theorist, but so many things seem off. Dude’s got an engineering degree, pulled off a cold-blooded assassination in broad daylight and evaded capture for almost a week… And then it turns out he’s an absolute idiot who keeps around a “ghost gun” in public, keeps around the same fake ID he’d used to book into the NYC hostel, and keeps a manifesto on his person?

      Part of me thinks this is some rando that’s gonna have to take the fall so that the rest of America believes that the police is all-powerful and can find any criminal. Hell, part of me thinks this perfect suspect is all made up.

      • @rumba@lemmy.zip
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        74 months ago

        While I loathe conspiracy theories…

        I expected one of the following:

        • He would never be found. (unlikely)
        • He would be ‘found’ and ‘take his own life’ before ending up in custody
        • He would be ‘found’ but would have fled the country and disappeared.
        • He would be found and be a professional who had lost a loved one to UHC

        What happened is

        • very conflicting to the clear and concise actions we saw in NYC
        • very convenient to what they’re looking for, open and shut.
        • The pictures they provided weren’t consistent with the footage of the killing

        He ditched the bike, had and ditched a backpack, had been there for a week, didn’t think to change clothes? Went through the trouble to get an untraceable gun, didn’t think to ditch the gun?

        • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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          That sounds completely plausible. Three letter agencies have ridiculous amounts of intel. They for sure know which building and apartment I’m commenting from and I’m a foreigner on a pseudonymous website. Plus there’s the however-many eyes agreement for when you need to get intel but can’t spy on your own citizens.

          Honestly I’m reminded of that time when Russians found that guy with 3 copies of The Sims when the security services were obviously told to find him with 3 sim cards so he’d look extra guilty

      • @Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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        I can’t imagine it’s particularly difficult to shoot someone, it’s not some work of genius.

        It’s pretty surprising he still had the weapon on him though.

        • @boonhet@lemm.ee
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          It’s easy enough to shoot someone, but that was well planned out beforehand, executed in a way to cause maximum media stir while getting away clean…

          And then several days later dude keeps a manifesto AND a ghost gun on him while outside…

  • UFO
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    34 months ago

    Thoughts and prayers for the cops looking for him /s

  • @ngn@lemmy.ml
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    34 months ago

    i heard about the story but i dont know any of the details - why do people like this guy/hate united healthcare ceo can somebody explain?

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      4 months ago

      UHC is top insurance company per the stock market.

      UHC denies the most claims costing people their lives who can’t afford medical care out of pocket.

      Shooter is praised for pulling an uno reverse card on the UHC CEO by denying them medical care through taking their life.

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      Healthcare companies, especially insurance companies, make a living out of denying claims so that people go bankrupt and/or die from denied claims. It’s unethical and downright evil, but they do it anyway. It would be hard not to hate the CEOs of those companies. After all, medical expenses is the leading cause of bankruptcies in USA.

      • @ngn@lemmy.ml
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        24 months ago

        yes, i heard insurance is pretty bad in USA but ive just learnt the extent of it thanks to the other user who gave an actual answer to my question

  • @thomas@lemmy.ca
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    Guy should just surrender and go to trial. I bet they will find it hard to get 12 person to find him guilty.

      • @bamboo@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        164 months ago

        IIRC, Snowden wasn’t eligible for a jury trial, because he worked for the NSA and, so it they were pushing for a secret court-martial trial. Who knows if Snowden would have actually done it, but I remember he said he would return to the US if it were a jury trial.

    • @Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee
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      244 months ago

      Fuck off. If he surrendered he will be killed. There is no way the billionaire class would allow a peasant like us to try to harm them and survive. They will also demonize him and drag him through the mud and claim he is a pedophile rapist who killed for pleasure.

    • macniel
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      214 months ago

      Just put 12 CEO in the jury. Boom. Multi kill.

    • @Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world
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      Juries are specifically selected to avoid people capable of critical thinking, and people knowledgeable about jury nullification.

      If it goes to trial his chances are slim. If he knows what’s good from him, he’s already in a foreign country with no extradition treaty, or halfway across the country in a remote section of wilderness laying low for the next few months.