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Also remember, things are newsworthy because they're novel. US sees like 2 gun deaths per day and thousands due to insurance company malpractice, but this one death dominates newscycles.

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

As one user wrote on Bluesky, “The reward out for the person who shot United Healthcare’s CEO isn’t even enough to cover 1/9 of the bill we got for 28 days of radiation.”

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

If I knew who he was, I wouldn't tell a god damn soul.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 103 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m waiting for the copycats with bated breath.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

There is a way for the rest of the CEOs to avoid joining this guy. I wonder if anyone can figure it out...

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Oh I know, expensive security detail, bullet proof cars, and remote, fortified homes?

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[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

His company is offering one free appeal of a claim denial for information leading to his arrest!

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is an I'm spartacus moment. Everybody in america should be doing their utmost to ensure the authorities have an overwhelming amount of information and leads to follow to ensure that the investigation eventually concludes with the result most in the interests of the people.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Don't get prison time by giving false information to the police. That's a crime.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Yeah but I think a lot of guys look like him. It's probably best that I call in every. single. one.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Anonymous tips are a thing. Call from a burner phone at a crowded bar, send an email from a temp mail site you accessed on public wifi using a laptop you bought that day from AliExpress that was shipped to a fake name and public addess that you then donate to goodwill. Create a mechanical pigeon out of scrap you find in the trash while wearing gloves whose entire purpose is to play an recorded message using a common AI voice tts that gets left outside a precinct by a bike courier that you paid in cash while wearing a mask.

Be the slop drama hero the media has trained you to be since birth.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 weeks ago

This hero brought a mass murderer to justice.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

There is no way I snitch if this guy's kid or mom were killed by this company's CEO greed and decisions, and no court or system would bring him justice. let them fix the system which kills people lives first

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If I serve on his jury, I’ll for sure push for nullification.

Sure he broke a law, we can all acknowledge that.

But was he wrong? (Based on the overall reaction I’d argue society doesn’t think so, and that’s where laws come from) Or are the laws, allowing things to get to a place where this is understandable behavior, wrong?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Self defense. He wasn't wrong, he was forced to act because someone else was using deadly force against millions of Americans.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t think self defense could be stretched that far, honestly.

But that’s why jury nullification exists. His actions were legally wrong but morally/situationally not, so you let them walk.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I love when the largest police force in the world has to [normal part of police work].

Dont snitch btw, mans a hero.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 week ago

Me when a CEO gets his head blown off right in front of me:

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

Love it.

Also have to wonder how many random unrelated and innocent men would have been ~~summarily executed~~ "killed in self defence by police" by now were the shooter Black.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I hope that backpack becomes a bestseller and a symbol.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What if this assassination is all a viral marketing campaign? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Funny thing is it's marketed as a photography bag. You know, to help you get those difficult shots.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ah yes, thousands of similar looking men "steal his look" and walk the streets of manhatten. I'd love to see it.

Any idea what model of gun he used? Have to match the WHOLE outfit 😉

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why are all the pictures they release of the guy just black blocks?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 week ago

Call every tipline and report the person responsible for this death and many others - That person's name was Brian Thompson.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And even have to pay for them because their claim is denied

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

curious the man didn't use a better disguise. Just shading eyebrows, changing skin tone, a cheap prosthetic nose, maybe some gauze inside the mouth to change face shape. Sometimes the old spy tricks are the best.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

How do you know he didn't disguise himself?

That could be a Black woman with extensive makeup.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

US sees like 2 gun deaths per day

Are you sure about that? NYC alone has around 1 murder per day, and I'd assume that most are gun related.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I am not sure at all. I might have been thinking of mass shootings instead :D

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Reminder: Snitches get stitches, and those stitches may not be covered by your insurance.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Anyone thought about inundating the tip lines with useless tips to help our hero?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Be sure to only submit one tip per phone number / IP address and take real numbers (Address, phone number, etc) then fudge them a little, it makes it much harder to filter out (my job used to be filtering tips like this). Area code needs to match tip area, for example.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

We should cover all the deaths from denied health coverage instead.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 weeks ago

Setting aside how we feel about the deceased as well as the police, it's not much of a dunk to be like "I can't believe they're asking the public for information!" Assuming good cops and immoral criminals this is what we'd want the police to be doing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

It's the face of an angel.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

but this one death dominates newscycles.

Step 1: be white

Step 2: be rich, or a young, attractive female

Step 3: dominate

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 weeks ago

Someone drop the crowdfund link to build a monument for this hero.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Here's one that wasn't shown in the post

HAS ANYONE SEEN JERMA RECENTLY??

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

They can't all go looking, they've got homeless people to harass.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seems to be a white male, age 20 - 48, 150 - 220 lbs, somewhere between 5"4' and 6'2. Best I can do.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

"no I don't think I will."

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