America - The Official Thread

[Blitz24]

I'm actually surprised insurance execs are killed in greater numbers. If you've been denied coverage and are going to die anyway, might as well take out the person benefiting from denying you coverage.

Area where the person was killed is VERY busy (especially today with the tree lighting occurring 6 blocks from the hotel). Would be stunned if this wasn't pre-meditated.

 

[TheCracker]

I'm actually surprised insurance execs are killed in greater numbers. If you've been denied coverage and are going to die anyway, might as well take out the person benefiting from denying you coverage.

Now watch your premiums go up due to increased security for healthcare CEOs.

 

[Keef]

UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot outside Manhattan hotel

Brian Thompson was outside the Hilton hotel in New York on Wednesday morning when he was shot in the chest, NBC News reported.

www.msnbc.com

May or may not be an assassination

Most certainly was. Manhattan is one of the safest areas in the country from gun violence per capita because basically nobody is carrying unless they've got bad intentions, and even then it's so thoroughly packed with people and security cameras and cops walking their beat that you will get caught unless you've got a plan.

 

[TexRex]

nobody is carrying unless they've got bad intentions

Or they're the NYPD.

Nevermind.

 

[Blitz24]

Most certainly was. Manhattan is one of the safest areas in the country from gun violence per capita because basically nobody is carrying unless they've got bad intentions, and even then it's so thoroughly packed with people and security cameras and cops walking their beat that you will get caught unless you've got a plan.

Its right next to Times Square and between the Diamond District and Millionaire's Row. I walk about 10 blocks south of the hotel when I am in the office. It is not even a quarter of a mile from Radio City Hall.

 

[Keef]

Its right next to Times Square and between the Diamond District and Millionaire's Row. I walk about 10 blocks south of the hotel when I am in the office. It is not even a quarter of a mile from Radio City Hall.

Last time I walked from a hotel near Grand Central toward the convention center I caught Halle Berry leaving one of the studios. There were a couple dozen people waiting, a decent portion of those were security enforcing a perimeter around the door. Even when the public knows exactly when and where a person is going to be, the boldness required to gain access to a reliable and fatal shot would be tough to do.

Outside the front door of a random hotel? One of hundreds on the island? With all sorts of people walking in and out constantly, getting dropped off and picked up? You don't just accidentally find a powerful CEO and take a random shot lol. Wild.

 

[Blitz24]

Last time I walked from a hotel near Grand Central toward the convention center I caught Halle Berry leaving one of the studios. There were a couple dozen people waiting, a decent portion of those were security enforcing a perimeter around the door. Even when the public knows exactly when and where a person is going to be, the boldness required to gain access to a reliable and fatal shot would be tough to do.

Outside the front door of a random hotel? One of hundreds on the island? With all sorts of people walking in and out constantly, getting dropped off and picked up? You don't just accidentally find a powerful CEO and take a random shot lol. Wild.

That's a pretty far walk (NYC standards) from 43rd and Madison to 11th Ave and 38th.

I've seen the video and this was NOT an accident. Man was wearing a mask and firing a silenced gun right at the target. Never faced the camera so completely possible they just have a poor general description. Then again, that's what was released by the NYPD.

 

[Tornado]

I'm actually surprised insurance execs are killed in greater numbers. If you've been denied coverage and are going to die anyway, might as well take out the person benefiting from denying you coverage.

This is actually something I've been pondering about since I saw someone mention it on Twitter a couple weeks ago. Trump is effectively untouchable and multiple people planned out shooting at him on the campaign trail anyway.



His toadies (most of which are not only unelected but are not even government officials and are just buddies with him) who are all making big promises of how they will personally help fire hundreds of thousands of government employees and ransack Social Security/Medicaire and deport tens of millions of people and take steps to eliminate access to medical care for anyone who isn't C-Suite? I would not be surprised at all if at least a few of them don't survive his second term.

 

[Liquid]