High-profile killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO in New York
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Why would someone support the assassination of someone they don't despise?
I don't despise him. I don't even know who he was until his demise. I despise what he represents and the hypocrisy surrounding his assassination. Nobody cares about the thousands of people dying because of decisions directly resulting from the policies he himself and other executives put into motion. Why is his life so much more valuable than the people who are dying everyday ? Insurance companies always find a way to refuse vital coverage for people who are dying and they'll keep getting away with it because of all the pockets they are filling. Frankly I think he got the easy way out. People who are in hospitals suffering because they can't afford cancer treatments aren't so lucky.
I wish the authorities can put a fraction of the effort they put into capturing Luigi towards holding insurance companies and their executives accountable.
He's guilty. He murdered a guy in cold blood. Reason aside and no matter what we think about it, it's a cold and shut case.
I can't see anything but probably 25 years with no parole
(Asuming he actually did it)
I can't see anything but probably 25 years with no parole
(Asuming he actually did it)
Apparently his natty red court jumper has sold out.
Keep on Sky1981ing, Sky1981.
Hey up Sherlock.
Do you have anything to add to my post? If not then kindly move along
This whole thing is gonna be an amazing circus. I've no sympathy for the guy, he was a key player in an industry that spreads misery, despair and pain. They profit directly from witholding coverage and overrulling doctors. The guy can get fecked.
The only thing that surprises me is that this isn't more common. This is a country with hundreds of millions of guns and millions of nutters. That there aren't more targetted killings like this is pretty remarkable.
The only thing that surprises me is that this isn't more common. This is a country with hundreds of millions of guns and millions of nutters. That there aren't more targetted killings like this is pretty remarkable.
Assuming he’s guilty, it’s an open and shut case.
I see someone else has been watching Colombo.
I think you mean “cold and shut case”. Whatever that is.
What I meant was they're gonna throw the book at him.
There's not much room to wiggle around in this case, regardless of optics
Thanks for clarifying. The video of him executing him in the street screamed ambiguity so it’s good to have someone cut through the legal spiel.
Obviously he did it, but I'm very curious to see what his defence will be given that he is pleading not guilty. I can't really see any angle there could be for that
The obsession with this lad seems a lot to do with the fact that he’s a well educated, good looking white kid. It’s all a bit uncomfortable? I get that he killed a bad man and the American health service is a total disgrace but the whole thing has become a farce.
That's how I see it too. I get why there is some celebration in that it's taking something to the healthcare there but people shouldn't pretend that if he wasn't all those things he'd still get all this 'positive' attention
There was adulation for whoever did it before they were even caught. The fact he’s well educated, good looking, and not a nutter sent it into overdrive.
There was definitely a consensus that he’d done a good thing before he was identified but all the memes about how hot he is are cringey as feck and 100% down to him being a good looking, privileged white guy. But that’s just social media doing its thing. It will never not make the world seem a terrible place.
The video is a rear view of a man with a masked face and hood up shooting another man. It’s going to take more than that video to convict this dude of anything.
I think the thing about his looks is a much more significant factor than him being relatively well-off. All the memes are about that. I imagine it would be the same if he was a high-school dropout working in a fastfood joint.
Sky is helpfully letting us work on the context they have established guilt
It’s all part of the narrative that this guy had it all and was set up for a very good life. Then he threw it all away for “the cause” in making a stand against the evil corporations. It’s the kind of throwing yourself on the grenade story that people like.
Well they have to prove he did it through the courts first, let's see how strong the evidence is, we obviously haven't seen it yet but going by the video evidence alone there's no way you can tell he was the shooter.
Being found with the gun and a written confession might be a problem for him. That said, it would be fun to see the jury stick two fingers up at the health insurance industry and acquit him anyway.
General concensus is that's he's hot. Keep up.
While there are plenty memes about him being hot and so on, the man was already being celebrated before anyone even had a clue who he was. I don't really think that criticism really applies here. Even though I admit the hype might have died down a bit, if he was some ugly and misshapen hillbilly.
Maybe that that state of New York isn't following protocol and giving him a fair trial. The governor of New York, who himself is awaiting trial, has proclaimed his guilt in the media which is a big no no in law terms for the prosecution.
Then there's the American judicial system where a trial is dependant in 12 "randoms" to deliver a verdict.
They've got plenty of ways to mess up a sure thing.
Mayor
A killer killed a bigger killer. Were just a financial number to them, something that's not a real life. Now they get a taste of what it's like.