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What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by gamblor956 »

avalys wrote: post #15

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If I was the CEO of a company and I made repeated conscious choices to deliberately deny people a life-saving service they paid for so I could get a slightly higher obscenely large bonus, I'd expect people to try and extract revenge.

UHC deliberately denied coverage to millions of people, at least hundreds of whom died as a result. Right now experts are saying that 7 out of 10 juries wouldn't vote to convict Luigi, and based on conversations I've had with people across the political spectrum I'd say the only jury that would convict Luigi is one made up entirely of healthcare executives.

I'm just surprised that this didn't happen sooner.

Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by gowld »

tacticalturtle wrote: post #21
lawlessone wrote: post #12

>Police revealed that finding the 26-year-old was a complete surprise, and that they did not have his name on a list of suspects prior to today So when they said they knew who he was yesterday it was a lie.

It was specifically Eric Adams who sort of implied that - but it was a bit of a cagey response, and NYPD later stated that day they had no ID: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5028239-mayor-adams-sa... Given Adam’s past year, there was never a reason to take what he says at face value.

I don't think that's a fair characterization.

> When asked by a reporter if police had the suspect’s name, Adams said, “We don’t want to release that now. If you do, you’re basically giving a tip to the person we are fine with seeking, and we do not want to give him an upper hand at all. Let him continue to believe he can hide behind a mask.”

Grammatical flub aside ("the person we are fine with seeking"), he is just saying that he doesn't want to say anything about the info being requested. The police release information that they have decided is in their interest to release. Everything else is classified confidential by default.

Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

avalys wrote: post #15

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The company that did the worst thing I ever worked for did… drum roll… cold calls to random people trying to sell them beds, mattresses, pillows and blankets.

So I do feel morally in the clear to cheer over the death of someone whose bonus hinged on him increasing the suffering and reducing the life span of completely random, innocent people, that, as a group, only had in common „not being rich“.

Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by zingababba »

BadHumans wrote: post #27

The funniest thing about the whole thing to me is that we have had privacy taken away or even voluntarily given it up to the police state in the name of security and then this guy randomly walks up and offs a member of the 1% and the only reason he got caught was because the feds got lucky.

No, because he was sloppy and lowered his mask...

Re: What we know about CEO shooting suspect

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Post by gowld »

gamblor956 wrote: post #24
lawlessone wrote: post #12

>Police revealed that finding the 26-year-old was a complete surprise, and that they did not have his name on a list of suspects prior to today So when they said they knew who he was yesterday it was a lie.

That's a common tactic to try and get a suspect to turn themselves in. Sometimes it works. (Most suspects turn themselves in for crimes they've committed. It's actually the exception when police need to go out to arrest a criminal suspect.)

That's when the suspect's identity is known, and the suspect would rather face a bail hearing then try to keep hiding.
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