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if you read the article it says he was in the elevator with his killer, who had gloves, a mask, a suitcase. this was clearly a professional hit job...
The terms "glove", "mask" and "suitcase" don't appear in the linked article.
Can you imagine the maladaptive psychology required to wield a knife to calmly dismember, decapitate and butcher another human being?
[0]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6288235/Saudi-autop...
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He was facing an Uber-like regulatory situation in Lagos where his startup was facing a ban. If this was related to his startup (and not some other personal dealing) then a clear motive would be for a legacy carrier being disrupted to want end his startup...
Oh! Your comment made me realize I was making an assumption that it was related to his business. I guess I just figure for someone to be trying to make progress in a place where progress is sorely needed, that its unlikely for them to have relationships or dealings that would warrant such heavy-handed consequences. If it was political, I wonder who benefits the most from this. Surely there will be scrutiny now, if th…
So police don't even know the cause of death, or anything else, but they do know they have video of the "killer"? I wish I were clairvoyant like this, but otherwise, may I never come under investigation from those people.
Convicting the killer requires much more evidence, but that's going to be many months later, currently all the listed claims of the police seem perfectly reasonable for this stage of investigation.
Seems like some other moving pieces in play with his past startup.
"The tech bro found sliced into pieces in his $2.25 million Lower East Side condo made a name for himself by creating a prank phone call app that led to the downfall of a Hudson County, N.J. jail honcho."
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-prankdial-app-hudson...
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Did they burn them with the drivers inside? If not, how is that comparable to killing and dismembering a human being?
It's comparable because usually you don't get these kinds of violent reactions when you disrupt a market
Only in developed countries, in a lot of the world that's actually exactly what you get when you disrupt someone's market.
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No value judgment is offered about whether a luxury condo is a good, bad, or neutral thing.
The fact that it's there to begin with implies it was noteworthy enough to include it, and the choice of including something versus not including is a value judgement. If instead the title read, "New York tech entrepreneur found decapitated wearing expensive suit", it would be more likely to strike people as odd, but isn't it essentially the same thing?
Murders in such settings instantly trip the "fear alert." Now all of our LC residents need to know how the deed was done and if there's anything about their safe-island assumptions that must be revisited or repaired.
The result: a story that people can't stop talking about. It's fashionable to decry business pressures that force journalists to do this, but the truth is sheer desire for recognition is a sufficient driver, no matter what the business model.
Can you imagine the maladaptive psychology required to wield a knife to calmly dismember, decapitate and butcher another human being?
The focus on the cost of the victim’s dwelling is so weird. I hope when they find my body they don’t waste half the article projecting local housing policy onto me, as if it were my fault.