And Oswald had experience.
where’s that damned “like” button?
Now who could have seen (/heard) that coming?
But since the companies’ sensors won’t work downtown due to tall buildings causing an echo factor {…}
[This was Chicago – SOURCE]
“Lemme’ bounce something off of you, Fred …”
:rolleyes:
For the record, I’m amazed at the completely ho-hum reaction to a CEO assassinated on a busy NYC street.
I mean, he’s not exactly John Gotti getting rubbed out by a rival gangster, yet we all seem to be “well, these things are to be expected with the business he chose”.
I suppose at this point, appallingly enough, we find it kind of refreshing to see an actual honest to goodness classic targeted street hit as opposed to someone just randomly wiping out the whole breakfast buffet line.
There are aready pics out that seem to show the suspect on the e-bike, as well as at Starbucks before the attack.
Though the surveillance vid shows he shot the man with some other pedestrian standing right there beside them (pedestrian, appropriately, booked out fast once they noticed what was up).
I wonder if they can trace the shooter by the credit card used to rent the bike?
As Voltaire put it, " pour encourager les autres"?
If this was a professional (or someone who watches a lot of true crime documentaries) they probably used a disposable prepaid debit card and a burner phone to rent the bike while obscuring their identity. Tracking down where the card and the phone were purchased would have to be the next step in trying to identify them.
What surprises me is that the assassin actually chose someone who had power in that system instead of killing a doctor like they usually do. More of a big picture thinker than most. After all, our health care system is, in fact, evil.
Every man’s death diminishes us all.
But, I don’t know the guy. To me, this is just another Law and Order episode. I’m already past the “denied healthcare to dying daughter” suspects and moved into “gay lover/blackmail” suspects. And finally to his brother as the shooter because he stole the brother’s classic comic collection. chung chung
I’m going to be looking out for the gun afficionado YouTubers debating how his supressor set-up made his firearm malfunction repeatedly and evaluating his clearing technique.
He was in the city to speak at a conference. That makes it even more puzzling how someone knew where to stage a shooting.
Was he stalked from Minnesota to NY?
The passenger list on Thompson’s flight might provide a lead.
As you well know it’s all about shot placement. A favorite toy of mine is a subcompact 1911 in 22LR, which is a really wimpy round. But, just ask Mossad. They did just fine with them after 1972 Munich.
Fred: Awww, shoot, it won’t work
NYPost image of his escape route:
Is it possible he knew his suppressor set-up would cause this to happen every time, and he just planned to operate the action by hand after each shot? Perhaps that’s an OK trade-off in some situations, and you practice it until it’s smooth?
The response I’m seeing elsewhere is even less sympathetic, usually variations on “Good riddance” and “hopefully this is just the first.” People are both enraged at the health care industry and don’t feel there’s any legal way to stop them from abusing people.
Silencers don’t really work like we’re used to seeing on television. The gunshot is still quite loud and you’re going to notice it. But one reason to use a suppressor is to make it a little more difficult to figure out where the shot came from. Let’s say you’re walking down the stree and hear a loud bang. The suppressor might make it a little difficult to pinpoint where that shot came from making it difficult for witnesses to tell police where the shots came from.
A few weeks ago there were some gunshots in my neighborhood (nobody shot), and as I sat in my driveway waiting for the police to arrive I heard more shots. I told the nice officer where I thought the gunshots came from and he said, “I’ve gotten three different answers now.” I don’t believe anyone used a suppressor in my neighborhood though.
Sometimes they can.
The family of a Las Vegas man who was denied health insurance coverage for a specific type of lung cancer treatment, then later died, has won a $200 million civil verdict against his health insurance provider, according to court records.
The family of William George “Bill” Eskew sued Sierra Health and Life Insurance in 2019. A jury trial led to an initial $40 million verdict a week ago, along with another $160 million in punitive damages against Sierra Health in the courtroom of District Judge Nadia Krall.
Sierra Health is a UnitedHealthcare company, which is owned by UnitedHealth Group.
Sierra Health loses $200M verdict to family of Las Vegas man | Courts | Crime
And did that bring their dead loved one back to life?
Punishing some people for having abused other people is not the same as stopping them from abusing people: if someone died, nobody stopped them.
Pretty sure Scott’s crimes were with a different, and unrelated, health care company:
https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/pr/2003/June/03_civ_386.htm
He’s a disgusting individual, regardless, but I don’t think Columbia/HCA is directly related to UnitedHealthcare.
This is correct. HCA is a healthcare provider (i.e., they operate hospitals and clinics); UnitedHealth is completely separate, and they have a health insurance division (UnitedHealthcare, of which Thompson was the CEO) and a heathcare division (Optum).