UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot outside NYC hotel in 'premeditated, preplanned targeted attack'
www.nbcnews.com
Brian Thompson, 50, was outside the hotel on Sixth Avenue when the suspect shot him in the chest and leg around 6:45 a.m.
  • JonsJava@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Locking. About 50 reports. I’m a volunteer, and don’t have enough time for this.

  • 🌱 🐄🌱 @lemmy.worldMEnglish
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    3 months ago

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  • Pogogunner@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    CEOs have not been held accountable for their actions by the legal system. This is inevitable with the way the United States is set up

    • MrVilliam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      If this happens to two or three more CEOs over the next couple of months, they’ll change their position on gun control, not change their behaviors that made somebody do this. And “they’re coming for our guns” morons would find a way to not only excuse it, but fully support it, at least at first.

      • tburkhol@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        If this happens to multiple CEOs, companies will just implement secret-service style security for the C-suite. Wouldn’t even be a rounding error in CEO compensation.

        • daltotron@lemmy.ml
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          3 months ago

          they already do that shit. elon already has a pretty big security retinue and his ass almost never goes out in actual public anymore, only ever hosts private events with verified people and pretty good security. most CEOs and billionaires aren’t gonna be that paranoid, but most of them don’t have to be, and they already tend to live in totally different contexts than your average person.

          what I’d be more interested in knowing is how this guy figured out that this particular guy was going to be outside this particular hotel at this particular time. this wasn’t a crime of pure opportunity, this was something which seems like it was probably planned in advance. if it was publicly accessible where this guy was going, that’s a much easier and cheaper thing for businesses and CEOs to solve, and is probably the most important part of this kind of security.

        • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works
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          3 months ago

          We really are just a few years away from Cyberpunk, aren’t we? I’d actually say a mix of both that, and Cloud Atlas’ last timeline.

  • Worstdriver@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    I’m relatively sure that the shooter will turn out to be someone who had a loved one suffer and die because they were refused health care coverage. This may turn out to be only the first of similar incidents.

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    3 months ago

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