Insurance company CEO assassinated in New York

[Spymaster]

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy apparently.

The fella was the boss of a scumbag insurance outfit, notorious for not paying health claims.

I’m not usually one for extra judicial justice but I’m finding it hard to give a toss about this bloke.

The assassin has built up quite an online following, particularly among women who I understand think he's quite cute

Ros Atkins on… How the New York shooting unfolded

Our Analysis Editor Ros Atkins with BBC Verify has been looking at the gunman’s movements and what we know about how the shooting unfolded.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[RevolutionSound]

 

[NoXion]

The response from comments online are almost universally unsympathetic. Can't say I blame them, I've heard endless horror stories from Americans about having to deal with a medical system under the yoke of the insurance companies.

 

[Spymaster]

I wonder if it could start a trend.

 

[Santino]

Bring Eddie Redmayne in for questioning.

 

[skyscraper101]

Already being discussed in the Healthcare in the US thread

"Healthcare" in the US

I've read parts of the Congressional Budget Office report on the new proposal for Trumpcare. It's a disaster for anyone making less than $50K a year, or, who is over 50. (I'm both.) A 60 year-old person who makes $26,000 a year could end up paying more than half their income in premiums. Or...

www.urban75.net

 

[kalidarkone]

Derail....

Love the Coup and have met them, and cooked for them.

 

[planetgeli]

, particularly among women who I understand think he's quite cute

Ros Atkins on… How the New York shooting unfolded

Our Analysis Editor Ros Atkins with BBC Verify has been looking at the gunman’s movements and what we know about how the shooting unfolded.

www.bbc.co.uk

His face is incredibly clear - hence the cute chat. But this means he doesn't stand a chance either.

Apparently he was incredibly cool about the whole thing. His gun jammed after 2 shots and he just stood there and cleared it expertly, and carried on shooting. Then jumped on an e-bike. As you do.

 

[DotCommunist]

propaganda of the deed.

 

[Petcha]

He is quite handsome tbf. No doubt he'll be busted but he'll defo get a cult following.

 

[JimW]

First with the big scoop again, Spy.

 

[newme]

He is quite handsome tbf. No doubt he'll be busted but he'll defo get a cult following.

Saw a reply to that when they asked for information saying sorry I'm not in network for that.

 

[2hats]

First with the big scoop again, Spy.

He has trouble getting into his phone swiftly, what with that PIN he set based on his age.

 

[xenon]

His face is incredibly clear - hence the cute chat. But this means he doesn't stand a chance either.

Apparently he was incredibly cool about the whole thing. His gun jammed after 2 shots and he just stood there and cleared it expertly, and carried on shooting. Then jumped on an e-bike. As you do.

A hero for our own times. And I’m not even being that sarcastic.

 

[moochedit]

DId enjoy ep 9 last night oh sorry wrong ceo

 

[Petcha]

Flirting with a receptionist, then off to assassinate a cunty head of insurance and then off for a little bike ride through central park and then vanishing. love it.

 

[DotCommunist]

I'm holding out hope he had plans for the escape, multiple plans. Six weeks with no daylight in an anonymous underground space in wider new york city with supplies and nothing more sophisticated than an fm receiver untill you can chance a move to pre prepared caches. No associates. Already out of state and riding the freight rail hobo style. Took a boat out to cuba.

 

[2hats]

Back to the hideout in Wales.

 

[danny la rouge]

I’m not usually one for extra judicial justice but I’m finding it hard to give a toss about this bloke.

This is the take away: live your life in such a way that people are at least upset when you’re assassinated.

 

[Voley]

Writing a message on the bullets is very action thriller isn't it?

DENY. DEFEND. DEPOSE.

(Yes I was watching Day Of The Jackal last night, too)

 

[Petcha]

Writing a message on the bullets is very action thriller isn't it?

DENY. DEFEND. DEPOSE.

(Yes I was watching Day Of The Jackal last night, too)

They are now working to determine what the words mean and if they could possibly hint at a motive for the slaying of the 50-year-old.

Curiously, the messages bear similarity to the title of a 2010 book on 'why insurance companies don't pay claims and what you can do about it', called 'Delay, Deny, Defend'.

Critics allege the tactic is used by insurance companies to 'ensure your claim is either never paid or paid at a rate far below what you deserve'.

 

[Saul Goodman]

I wonder if it could start a trend.

Hopefully, and let the untouchables know they're not.
Dead children isn't a good enough reason to change gun laws in America. I wonder if dead rich people would be.

 

[Voley]

It's going to be one hell of a Netflix doc, this one.

 

[Petcha]

It's going to be one hell of a Netflix doc, this one.

I think the TV execs will find him before the cops

 

[Spymaster]

His face is incredibly clear - hence the cute chat. But this means he doesn't stand a chance either.

Perhaps he’ll decide to bag a few more before they nick him.

 

[Petcha]

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s suspected killer arrived in NYC last month on bus that left from Atlanta: sources

The suspected killer who gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson came to New York City on an interstate Greyhound bus last month, police sources told The Post.

nypost.com

 

[Skinny Ethel]

They wouldnt be able to get away with these shenanigans without health legislation that allows them to. I do hope theres a lot more shootings at the fuckers who pass this legislation allowing cunts to kill members of the public for an increase in there profits.

 

[DotCommunist]

Writing a message on the bullets is very action thriller isn't it?

Its similar in a sense to writing slogans and curses on bombs or on slingstones. Much more specific in this case or casings.

 

[Voley]

Its similar in a sense to writing slogans and curses on bombs or on slingstones. Much more specific in this case or casings.

Yeah it reminded me of bombs with "Uncle Sam says Hi" etc in the Vietnam war. We did it WW2 as well I think.

He's gone one further with appropriating/altering the slogan though.

 

[Orang Utan]

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s suspected killer arrived in NYC last month on bus that left from Atlanta: sources

The suspected killer who gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson came to New York City on an interstate Greyhound bus last month, police sources told The Post.

nypost.com

Fucking bus-using bike-riding communists!