Spyke
feddit.org

Statistically, there were likely 4 more murders in NYC since this one, I'm sure they're investigating those just as thoroughly.

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Nasanreply
sopuli.xyz

Cue BD Wong talking about how the assassin was abused as a child by UHC

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lemmy.world

Or JK Simmons nonchalantly implying that maybe the CEO deserved it, and that makes the killer the most sane of anyone.

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He did deserve it though. We also shouldn’t stop at Health Insurance CEOs, we need to make oil company execs fear for their lives for the damage they are doing to the environment.

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mander.xyz

To put that in perspective:

All numbers from 2023

NYC:

  • 8.25 million inhabitants
  • 386 murders

Austria:

  • 9.13 million inhabitants
  • 72 murders
7

Big cities have more murders than rural countries, more news at 11.

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lemmy.ca

If he had killed any of us, the cops wouldn't give a shit.

Remember that.

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Dozzi92reply
lemmy.world

I dunno, I'm the CEO of my own single-member LLC.

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Glytchreply
lemmy.world

How many deaths is your company responsible for?

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Then you're fine and have nothing to fear from The Adjuster.

8

And if you were in a bad situation, cops on the scene have a higher chance of killing you.

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beefbotreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

If I’d done what that CEO fuck probably did to this guys family, he would a been justified in killing me too

14

Too bad they can't just pick up a rando with mental health issues and lie, torture, and starve him in a room until he "confesses"

11

Yeremi Colino was murdered the same day. No massive manhunt, no big cash reward for his murderers' capture. AFAIK, they're still at large.

But I guess that's the difference in how our society values the lives of a migrant teenager and a CEO of a massive insurance conglomerate.

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lemmy.world

I love how they're using the full force of their resources to catch this guy, but a random murder they put two detectives on for a few months, shrug and close the case.

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ReiRosereply
lemmy.world

And every politician, every cop on the street Protects the interests of the pedophilic corporate elite

Bo's song

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This needs more attention. We should all be collectively outraged at the police response. They should saddle 2 detectives with the case and direct all these resources back to where they were before. The rest of the CEOs can sleep with one eye open.

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lemmy.world

In addition to looking for the killer, police are still searching for a motive as to why someone would kill Thompson.

This is definitely where they need to focus their resources first.

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Honestly? Yea probably. It'd be fucking amazing if the police ended up releasing a report on just how much UHC fucked this guy or his family/friends over.

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Infynisreply
midwest.social

It's clear they haven't even given it a first look. The guy put the title of the book on the bullet casings

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reddthat.com

I mean for all we know it has nothing to do with healthcare premiums. The guy could be a fellow board member who got boned out of a bonus or something.

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floofloofreply
lemmy.ca

The message on the bullets would suggest otherwise. To me that seems like an attempt to preempt speculation that the motive had nothing to do with insurance company fuckery.

11

Could just as easily be a red herring.

I mean, most likely it isn't internal insurance drama, but it could be.

Besides, how amazing would it be for the cops to say "yeah so we researched this and it was definitely a retaliation execution for all the lives he murdered in his quest for money and power". Talk about putting the billionaire class on alert haha

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Tbf, that’s the largest pool of potential suspects, so it makes sense that they’d want to call police attention in that direction regardless of the actual motive. I do think it’s genuine, but it’s a smart move either way

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elbuchoreply
lemmy.world

They're likely just going to execute him when they find him so as to not allow that. Say he was brandishing or something.

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It would only make sense for him to turn himself in while accompanied by his lawyer after releasing a statement that he will be doing so. Even so, eventually he’s going to be alone in police custody and I’d be surprised if he survives that for long.

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And you don’t have to ask him why he is running. It’s perfectly legal to help a stranger in need without asking them if they broke the law. In fact, it used to be seen as the most Christian thing to do by not judging.

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Rapidcreekreply
lemmy.world

Aiding and abetting murder can result in the same charges and penalties as the principal offender, which could include life in prison without parole

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Jaderickreply
lemmy.world

Your statement could be true, but the way you’re presenting it sounds like you’re just letting the oppressors win.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Got a loaded shotgun waiting for any pig that thinks I'm going in quietly for doing the right thing

We all should

4

If you're dumb enough to go into jail when fascism is in charge that's on you

Its called having a plan and knowing what your government thinks of people like you

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lemmy.world

This isn't true. Harboring someone from the police after they commit a crime makes you an accessory, not a primary.

Edit: to be more concrete and actually cite what I'm saying (my bad), we'll use federal law since they clearly crossed state lines multiple times in the stages of committing this act of heroism crime:

An accessory after-the-fact is someone who, knowing a crime was committed, receives, relieves, comforts, or assists the offender or in any manner aids them to escape arrest or punishment. See: U.S. v. Triplett, 92 F.2d 1174 (5th Cir. 1991). The aid provided by the defendant to the principal must be given after the principal completes the crime.

The basic elements the government must demonstrate to prove that a defendant was an accessory after-the-fact are: (1) the commission of an underlying crime against the United States; (2) the defendant’s knowledge of that offense; and (3) assistance by the defendant in order to prevent the apprehension, trial, or punishment of the offender. See: U.S. v. White, 135 S. Ct. 1573, 191 L. Ed. 2d 656 (2015); Ellis v. U.S., 806 F. Supp. 2d 538 (E.D. N.Y. 2011).

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superkretreply
feddit.org

I'm sorry I don't watch the news, so I have no idea who this person on my couch is, he just looked like a good guy who does good things.

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Then you must be in quite a conundrum with who was killed here; if you want justice for the CEO by finding the killer of the CEO, you're supporting a murderer; if you support the killer of the CEO, you're supporting a killer.

Tough moral quandary.

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Yes, all the death can be laid at the feet of one guy. What a simplistic place to live.

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Me to the judge: He said he was my cousin Paddy!

Me to the shooter: You lied to me! *wangs him with a skillet*

problem solved.

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I'm not too fussed about the AI, to be honest. It'll just declare that it has 14,986 suspects who "definitely" did it, most of whom will just coincidentally turn out to be black.

The odds of them being able to definitively tie a face to a name in a single stroke are pretty remote. The investigation strategy will probably revolve around tracking down where he went and how he got there. If he rode a bus, they will investigate who was on that bus. Same if he took a plane. Or if he hired an Uber, or whatever. Whose credit cards were used to purchase tickets, whose cell phones were tracked in those locations at those times, etc. Wasn't he on a rental bike? They will try to track payment methods for those rental bikes. Etc.

Even with all their manpower and spy technologies and cell phone spoofing towers and dogs and any amount of shiny badges, the cops can't clear a solve rate for murders in the US that's any better than 50%. So there's a coin-toss chance this guy didn't go out of his way to do anything right and still walks away.

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Zronreply
lemmy.world

I didn’t know you could use cash for rental bikes.

All the ones in Chicago need the app in order to rent them.

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Nougatreply
fedia.io

Could you do it with a burner phone and load the app from a Visa gift card? Rent and place the city bike around the corner, do the deed, drop the phone (whether on accident or on purpose), take off on the bike.

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sh.itjust.works

I really hope this doesn’t lead business to not accept cash.

I should use more cash on a daily basis to discourage this…

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Businesses in NYC love cash. Shops everywhere have discounts for paying in cash. There are ATMs everywhere with $1 or less fee.

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the cops can’t clear a solve rate for murders in the US that’s any better than 50%.

That is averaged between the murders they don't care about and the ones they put effort into. It isn't thst every individual murder has a 50% chsnce of being solved.

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midwest.social

Oh shit, a crime the cops actually have to solve, haha, can't just frame some poor sap this time gotta do some actual detective work. I hope they never catch him and the PD gets defunded. I know its NYC and they need cops but I think they could use a haircut at least

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lemmy.world

They can't even blame a brown or black person, this is SSS rank detective work and they are a one-legged Kickboxer in this match.

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lemmy.world

I'm entirely unconvinced that anyone needs the thugs with badges. Multiple studies have shown that every single time that the NYPD pulls a "blue flu," the crime rate drops, significantly. As far as I can tell, the thugs with badges cause a significant amount of the crime in this country.

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I agree, but if one day we abolished all cops, people in NYC especially would freak out. Hell some cops would probably do a bunch of crime to prove a point. Its not a demand that people like very much, . I think the police as a force that absolutely only exists to protect private property of the owning class, and I don't know if you wanna hear my "nuanced" opinions and I don't know if they're worth very much. But I think that the police as a reactive force needs to be handled tactically in order to protect people who are protesting and force through demands. By and large I agree with Farrell Dobbs analysis in teamster rebellion was, during a political rebellion such as the 1934 Minneapolis teamster strike, the state of a police department changes daily and must be evaluated daily based on primarily their numbers. It would be great for left wing mass movements to make demands on the ruling class if that number was zero, but that's unrealistic and most people know it.

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We all watched them sit around for an hour knowing small children were dying inside a school. We know exactly what they’re made of

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lemmy.world

It's already been two and a half days. The longer they go without catching him the less likely it will be that they do.

The fact that they are issuing a wider manhunt seems to back that up.

Given the publicity, I'm sure that they'll catch a guy, but I'm skeptical that they'll catch that guy.

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Rakonatreply
lemmy.world

Hate to burst the bubble but this guy threatened the illusion that the billionaire class is untouchable. The ultra-rich are going to be leaning heavily on all the politicians and officials they helped put into position to ensure this guy gets caught no matter the cost, and ensure he's made an example of.

It might not be the NYPD or any other civil police department, but you can bet NSA & FBI leadership is getting multiple phone calls demanding they get involved and go over every piece of information related to the shooting they can get till they identify the killer. The ultra-rich won't let this one slide as one of their own was publicly murdered, so they won't stop at anything to ensure the killer's character is publicly murdered so that anyone who tries to copycat or get ideas can equally be ostracized as an outcast.

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lemmy.world

Even if they don't the guy, they'll still find a guy. The illusion of control must be maintained.

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lemmy.world

Do you think they’ll let him get in front of a jury or will they kill him before they bring him in?

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They'll kill him and make it look like he went crazy and turned a gun on them or something and it was their only option.

Or he'll get Epstein'd.

Or he'll mysteriously fall from a high balcony.

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the_crotchreply
sh.itjust.works

The dude that got shot wasn't a billionaire, not even close. With a net worth of $54 million he's just as much of a peasant to them as we are.

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Wizreply
midwest.social

He wasn't a billionaire, but he was filthy sticking rich, and made his money by causing untold stress and harm on other people.

I mean his company was already notoriously evil when he was just a high-ranking executive. But he took the helm, and wanted more money by being crueler than that.

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the_crotchreply
sh.itjust.works

Fine, he was a bad dude, but a millionaire getting shot doesn't "shatter the illusion that billionaires are untouchable" any more than you or me getting shot would

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I think you might be wrong there. How much conversation was happening a week ago about actually killing rich folks? I saw it occasionally here on lemmy in the form of 'eat the rich.' Out in my meatspace conversations though? Never. There might have been a grumble once a year, or they might agree with a statement about the elite political and financial class not caring about harm done to anyone else. In the last few days, even my normiest of normal friends has been talking about it, even if not directly. Most of the comments aren't putting the rich in a positive light either.

This event has sparked a great deal of thought about death and taxes.

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sh.itjust.works

Even if they catch him and hang him, it doesn’t mean that he didn’t accomplish his goal.

If you’re trying to show your untouchable, revenge won’t prove that.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

He's not getting a jury. They're going to cut him down and say he shot himself so his legacy will be that he was a coward . At least that will be the attempt but it seems like everyone will know better

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This exactly my thought. They will do everything to make him crazy or suicidal.The good thing is that someone leak what he wrote on the casing. This makes it clear he is socially motivated. Hopefully, if they ever close in, he will have an online stream up.

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lemmy.world

He should walk naked into a major TV studio carrying nothing, ask them to call the cops. Force them to accept a surrender.

7

I still don't think the smiling picture is him. Unless he ditched the backpack and jacket, got different ones and then ditched the backpack again.

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Dasusreply
lemmy.world

Americans really need to google these words if they haven't already.

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granolabarreply
kbin.melroy.org

Most Americans didn't see any crime...

You are assuming that this saint protector of the working people could be presumably guilty of a crime

5

Oh no, I'm not talking about this case. Just in general, it'd be good of Americans to inform themselves on that.

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Dasusreply
lemmy.world

Good luck going though the search history of every single person up for jury selection.

Also, a "private window" won't lean jack shit, just means your local personal files won't save what you do. Cookies and Google and whatnot still do.

If you want to be anon, use TOR with VPN or at least a VPN.

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feddit.org

I don't think its helpful to combine a Tor and VPNs in most situations. Tor itself should be fine

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Dasusreply
lemmy.world

It pretty much is the VPN as far as I've understood it.

5

OK, my bad, I'm not too well versed in the subject

thanks

5

Vpn with tor can hide the fact that you’re using tor from your isp

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lemmy.world

If people with intelligence and empathy skip out on jury duty, that leaves idiots and sociopaths to judge the accused.

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the_crotchreply
sh.itjust.works

Well unfortunately I have a job and a mortgage. If the trial goes longer than the few days that my employer is forced to pay me, and I'm stuck with the $50 a day the state pays, I'm fucked. I don't consider living on the street a civic duty.

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That's fair and I've had to bail on jury duty for the same reason, although I was able to participate once.

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lemmy.world

By all means do. I can't wait to hear this man's story.

And good luck getting a conviction. Jury Nullification go brrrrr

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MagicShelreply
lemmy.zip

Wouldn't that be something? If the people collectively decided, "Nah this is fine. This was reasonable."

I doubt it but that would be beautiful.

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Could even stop before it gets that far. It'll be difficult to convene a jury with so many candidates dismissed for saying "nah, fuck health insurance CEOs".

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

That moment when the Healthcare CEOs realize that no jury will convict their murderers in a country with more guns than people.

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lemmy.world

I wouldn't rely on nullification. I instead think this guy deserves a full pardon. We pardon domestic abuse victims who kill their abusers, is this situation really so different?

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There's no one part of the system we should rely on. What I say I do so with hope in the full knowledge that we're likely to see the corruption re-assert itself.

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lemmy.world

I bet he'd be like "Nah, use it to pay for people’s health care more assassins.”

Imagine a crowdfunded CEO bounty program

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Yup, this is my concern. They’ll claim he resisted during their no-knock raid, and they had no choice but to execute him in his bed. And all of the body footage will be “accidentally” scrubbed, or every single officer “forgot” to turn their body cams on.

“The assassin didn’t resist” is going to be the new “Epstein didn’t kill himself.”

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I think they can just move it as a judgement as a matter of law, or whatever else rule applies. It was a pretty clear case afterall

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200 pics are big boy words.

That's at least 10 seconds of video footage at 20 FPS.

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lemmy.world

If they do find him, the prosecutors are going to have a hell of a time trying to weed out anyone interested in jury nullification.

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jettrscgareply
lemmy.world

Incorrect. You're in a social media bubble.

The average person who gets chosen for jury duty somehow won't know who this guy is despite reports on every media outlet. It blows my mind how oblivious those people can be.

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Yuuuup. Like that spike in Google searches for "did Biden drop out" or whatever during the week leading up to the election. A lot of people live with their head in the sand.

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sudo42reply
lemmy.world

In that case the jury conversation will go something like this: “I wonder why the judge won’t allow anyone to know the victim’s occupation?”
The second the jury finds out this guy was a health-insurance CEO, half of them will shrug and go “time served”.

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capitalreply
lemmy.world

If I asked every single person I’m on a first name basis with what jury nullification was I bet a large sum of money that none of them would have an answer.

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capitalreply
lemmy.world

That's not the point.

It's to demonstrate that almost no one knows what it means.

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yiffit.net

Imagine what happens if they fail, and they can't even produce a fall guy?

The thing is, Americans know their police force is lazy and useless. We're all joking about all the murders that will go unsolved that have occurred since the CEO's death. Now, there's a real chance that their incompetence will be on full display. Is it really out of the question to think that they have become so impotent that someone could carefully plan and execute an assassination?

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I expect they'll find a fall guy if they can't find the real killer. Can't look incompetent when the nation's watching!

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lemmy.ml

i bet this will become the first public example of the state surveillance being used to protect our oligarchy from us and; given the democrat's obstinacy when it came to constructive criticism during the election; americans will treat it as another nothing-burger like they did with the genocide and it'll become yet another nail in the coffin of the american empire's decline; besides the election, ukraine's defeat, afghanistan withdrawal, iraqi wmd's, etc.

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floofloofreply
lemmy.ca

the first public example of the state surveillance being used to protect our oligarchy from us

What do you think it has been used for up to this point?

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eldavireply
lemmy.ml

it's been done surreptitiously or academic masturbation until now

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xmunkreply
sh.itjust.works

The government knows when you masturbate The government knows when you feel alone And it's getting late and you're sitting at home

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eldavireply
lemmy.ml

i get that this is snark; but in case you really didn't know: snowden proved that they had this capability circa 2008 and they've only gotten better at it after 15+ years.

7

the corn dog ammunition belt made the american flags feel redundant. lol

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sbvreply
sh.itjust.works

this will become the first public example of the state surveillance being used to protect our oligarchy from us

This feels hyperbolic.

The state protects the status quo, including whoever has money. I wouldn't limit it to surveillance. If we're just talking about the US, there's the Battle of Blair Mountain, all of COINTELPRO, Watergate (I think?), etc.

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the difference is that it's in the news and has widespread appeal.

those examples were either done surreptitiously or were only academic exercises in privacy; this is real-world application of that academic theory that has the chance of not being suppressed or ignored due to its notoriety.

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So is this what people keep talking about when they say they see a lot of tankies in lemmy?

Cause me reading that, OP was implying the likely defeat given current trend, I did not take it as a support of Putin.

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eldavireply
lemmy.ml

yes, it's tankie to spell out reality in the united states.

sometime i wish this were reddit so i could do remind me next year

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lemmy.ca

No it’s a tankie thing to say Ukraine lost when the war is ongoing. You just want Putin’s dictatorship to have more land.

Down with Russian imperialism.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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eldavireply
lemmy.ml

No it’s a tankie thing to say Ukraine lost when the war is ongoing. You just want Putin’s dictatorship to have more land.

Down with Russian imperialism.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

i want the ukrainians to exist as sovereign peoples instead of a new vassal state to the dying american empire since the people that i descend from have been trying for almost 500 years to shake off the enslavement of this same empire.

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lemmy.ca

There are no proposals of Ukraine joining the United States.

Russia is the country to blame causing the problems in the region as the Kremlin is responsible for Holodomor and for the rampant corruption in Eastern Europe.

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eldavireply
lemmy.ml

the ukrainian inexplicably want to join the american hegemony called nato on the eve of its collapse; they're better off on their own w/o serving as a a future proxy battlefield with the collapsing united states empire.

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Unfortunately, I've worked with a lot of republicans in my lifetime. Hating overpaid CEOs and thinking insurance is a scam are 2 of the only things I've seen republicans and democrats agree on. Good fucking luck convicting him.

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lemmy.world

So many resources spent for one dead white guy. I dont imagine every murder gets this much attention and expensive work done on it.

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lemmy.zip

"we're going to get this guy"

Twist: that's not the guy that shot him...

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That's 6 words, 7 if you removed the contraction. I think it was the k-9 unit with the lead pipe in the kitchen.

Are they sure someone got hurt? I hope the gangbang worked out for Trisha... If really someone actually did get hurt.

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lemmy.ca

If the FBI and the NYPD don't have the footage they need within 1 week, their ability to catch the right guy will diminish, as CCTV feeds from across the country get overwritten. If the suspect can grow and keep facial hair it would probably be difficult to match against these images. They could request some from the bus centers in Atlanta, New York and every stop in between but there's only so much footage they'll be able to get their hands on, this person seems to know what they were doing and staying less identifiable in public.

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Infynisreply
midwest.social

Those facial features could absolutely also be a mask. They're very exaggerated

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The_vreply
lemmy.world

Hmmm...

That would make more sense. The distinctive backpack must have made him easily traced by cameras.

Why would he do that?

Either he was incompetent or he knows the art of misdirection. A mask that he knowing allowed to be seen would send the authorities on a wild goose chase. All of the cops would be looking for the wrong person for a long time.

A quick change, ditch all the distinctive outfit, and change into a non-descript Walmart outfit. Then take care to let no camera see his real face as he high-tails to a safe location.

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There was a high-profile public murder case some years back in my area. Police stated the alleged killer wore an eye-catching band-aid smack in the middle of his face. Now for several days, I kept looking out for some dude with a band-aid until it occurred to me that the guy probably ripped it off immediately after the hit and it just might have been a red herring from the beginning. Nobody was ever caught.

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"you guys are screwed; they're gonna be lookin' for army guys" ~ paraphrasing peter griffin from family guy in clown garb and make-up somewhere in Viet Nam during the war.

Edit: meaning to highlight it might be intentional to have such a noticeable thing only to discard it later (if it's not reversible or something already).

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sndmnreply
lemmy.ca

He's definitely not up here in Canada, relaxing in my basement.

53

Nor mine. They'd better not waste their resources coming up here to have a look.

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Rapidcreekreply
lemmy.world

Since they know that's where he came from, pretty sure they're looking for him threre

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Rapidcreekreply
lemmy.world

They have video of him arriving in NYC on a bus from Atlanta.

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PugJesusreply
lemmy.world

A smart lad would've done that to throw the cops off track. I hope he was smart.

6

Seems that he's smarter than the average felon. I watch NYC TV, and the cops just announced they found something in Central Park. If he's smart he would have ditched the gun.

3

I dunno, Mali hasn't been doing so hot. I'd be curious what the kidnappers that catch him would do with him though

2

Once outside of the US, I think the CIA gets involved and I suspect it's, in many ways, a more dangerous group to have mad at and hunting for you.

1

I'm wondering if they're holding back on sharing extra pictures of him, because by now they must be aware that the likelihood of people helping him hide is super high

33

At this point I wouldn't be surprised if people broke out of any detention facility of he is ever to be caught just to drive the point home to the parasite class...

He didn't commit any crime. Get fucked

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lemmy.world

Do one a week and they'll get overwhelmed. They can't put all their resources into a dozen different manhunts each, by definition.

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they are so annoyed that they actually have to do any work because the subject was rich.

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lemmy.world

Just need to keep calling in with bogus tips. Say we saw him across the country.

I seent him in Bogota! I swears it!

21

Limp dick regime goons aint got shit... and the long this goes, the more likely he will get away with it.

I hope all of these business "leadership" add this to their calculus when they fuck over paying customers to live large.

FAFO

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100
fedia.io

how about some totally true tips we saw him walk past nearby?

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lemmy.world

50 years later they finally find him having lived a long fruitful life I'm Santa Monica as a smile model in Colgate commercials. Had 10 children with a beautiful model wife who loved him. Probably worked at the muffler shop for 20 years before discovering his Passion for photography.

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granolabarreply
kbin.melroy.org

Imagine doing this much public service then retiring into a regular job because you are a chill guy who just likes helping people

Something the rich parasites would never understand

8

King George, upon learning of George Washington's intention to resign, said "If he does that, he will be the greatest man in the world."

I'm not here to lionize or even defend slaveowner George Washington. Your comment just made me think of that.

2

police are still searching for a motive as to why someone would kill Thompson.

Someone assassinates a legal serial killer, and cops are looking for a motive?

Wow, those hiring requirements that disqualify applicants if they have too high of an IQ is really working out well for the police force.

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This is how I learn that Optum is a subsidiary. Even more apropos that this happened just before I took my wife to another chemo appointment at a facility that was recently bought by Optum ... two and a half weeks late because insurance dragged its feet on authorization.

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lemmy.zip

The reality is: Unless he fled the country he was always going to be caught. That is the point of living in a surveillance state. It was just a matter of time.

As a thought exercise, imagine a bathroom. Ten people go in. One person flips their jacket inside out. Ten people come out. Do you suddenly lose that one person who now has a green jacket instead of a red one? No. You realize the person with a green jacket never "entered" and know something was up.

And now extend that to every single traffic camera, security camera, and so forth in the city and in the country. Because now that "bathroom" is a camera at every major exit in and out of Central Park as well as places where the shrubbery is low enough that you can hop a fence.

And yes, that is a VERY large amount of data. If only we had spent the past few decades learning to represent things as graph problems, how to use computer vision to automate recognition, and so forth.

It was obviously dramatized (and is fascinating from a production standpoint and how much effort they put in to keep the nazi from killing anyone...) but Person of Interest wasn't some dystopic future. It was, if anything, underestimating what is already possible.

So... here is hoping that ridiculously handsome G went straight to the airport and flew to a non extradition treaty country. Probably didn't though and is probably going to get picked up at a bus station.


Also: For all the gun nuts who think you rae going to use your closet full of AR-15s to scream "WILDCATS" and fight off the fascists or invaders or whatever? They'll have access to those cameras too and will be able to figure out what house or cave you are hiding in and send a few drones. So... yeah

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lemmy.zip

Eh. Read up on some of the other big mysteries (stuff like The Somerton Man). Every few years someone who has made it their career/identify has some irrefutable evidence that is either refuted or determined to not be that unique. Or it has been solved for decades but nobody cared enough to make it official and the people writing books/doing talk shows benefit from a "mystery".

And in this case? McCoy had already been arrested for a similar crime and is long dead. Nobody really cared to keep searching.

But also? We have a LOT more cameras these days and a LOT more ability to process that data without human intervention.


Also, just to make it clear: even if the shooter escaped the country, they are going to be identified (flying on a fake ID is a lot harder and you can bet all the passengers are being checked against the pictures). But it won't be US cops that catch him (probably just as dead if he doesn't completely disappear though).

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In an alternate universe:

"WE FOUND EM'!"

(Proceeds to walk on a stage with the assassin to shake his hand.)

"We just wanted to bring you here to thank you on all our behalf, you really didn't need to run. We're behind you all the way on the next one!"

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Hadriscusreply
lemm.ee

yea I was wondering about that. But I'm not so sure, it seems plausible that they would have been able to amass footage of him throughout the city

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granolabarreply
kbin.melroy.org

They also found "his" back with monopoly money in it...

Seems plausible that NYPD are stupid haha

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Someone else said they might be counting each frame of a 24fps security camera as a photo, so like less than eight seconds right?

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They don't have that kind of network set up to my knowledge. Maybe in London but not New York.

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Going by the title I thought I was in c/theonion for a second. Or c/nottheonion.

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"we're" is one word.

"Gonna" is slang, but still one word. You'd probably be better breaking that into "going" and "to".

But still, the sentence is 5 words.

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Mr_Dr_Oinkreply
lemmy.world

We are going to get this guy... 7

Anyway, the reported counted 4, not the police.

I assume you were trying to insult the police. (As much as i think thats cool, you have aimed at the wrong target)

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Black, brown or cream jacket. So hard to tell them apart!

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