Health Care CEO murdered in NYC in a targeted attack

old medic said:
A friend of mine has a 22 pistol with a suppressor that is almost silent. My pump pellet rifle is louder... The bullet hitting the target is louder.
I have a suppressor on a 300 BlackOut for night hunting, and it is defiantly quieter but still noticeable.

As far as being driven to this by being denied, I can understand it... Was pushed about that far one time... Had severe Chest Pain, and diagnosed with severe PTSD due to work, Medical Director suspended me from work nearly 2 months, and sent me for treatment. Insurance refused to cover it saying it was Workman's comp, Workman's Comp said it wasn't work related. Bills piled up since I had no income, add the debt from the medical.... We nearly lost our house as the cascade grew...
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Did one of the insurances finally pay your medical bills? That’s really awful what happened to you.
 
squatting dog said:
Let me throw another thought into this to ponder. When this first happened, the reports said the victim was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead of a gun shot wound... TO THE CHEST.
Now all I hear is shot in the back. What if there was a second shooter off to the side and this guy was just a dupe? Seems like everybody is concentrating on the back shooter only.


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I saw him shoot the CEO and it was in the back so whoever said it was a shot in the back is correct.
 
Teacher Terry said:
Did one of the insurances finally pay your medical bills? That’s really awful what happened to you.
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No... the original hospital was the one I worked at and was written off as professional courtesy. The 1st shrink I only saw once and paid out of pocket, The 2nd was a great help and interested in the EMS field, and she got her company to reduce my bill. Still took a while to pay off, but it kept me from blowing my brains out, and continuing in the career to a retirement pension.
 
Trade said:
If it goes to trial the prosecution might have a hard time seating 12 jurors willing to vote to convict. I know I wouldn't.
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If the defense wants to, they can petition for a "Judge only trial". The theory being that it is somewhat easier to convince one person, who understands the law, than 12 persons who don't understand the law.
 
911 said:
Absolutely it does. However, when a shooter gets as close to his victim as this dude got, the shots are very effective. If you saw the video of the shooting, you saw the first shot hit his victim in the leg. This allowed him to walk up on the victim and put 4 or 5 shots in his back.

The suppressor not only reduces the velocity, but also the accuracy will be minimally reduced. I am not a competition shooter, but I have been to matches and spoke to different shooters about using suppressors. I learned that some shooters make their own suppressors or will take a manufactured suppressor and engineer it to be more accurate, but the velocity will still be somewhat reduced.

I also noticed on the video that the shooter had to rack each shot. Can someone please explain to me why he had to do this? I can understand him doing that if his gun jammed, but each shot? The only possibility I came up with is that the ammo he used was not made to fit his pistol.
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911. The shooter left at least 2 unfired rounds on the sidewalk at the scene. The crime scene techs found those rounds, both of which had words engraved on them. The words were DENY and DELAY, which relates to terms used in the medical insurance business to refuse claims. That was what the shooter wanted to be found. To me they are his "calling cards " . By racking the action, he was laying down his message rounds. Jim
 
jimintoronto said:
If the defense wants to, they can petition for a "Judge only trial". The theory being that it is somewhat easier to convince one person, who understands the law, than 12 persons who don't understand the law.
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I think he'd have better luck with a jury. Maybe not aquittal. But more likely a hung jury. All you need is one guy like me who is willing to stay in that room until Hell freezes over before I'd vote guilty.
 
jimintoronto said:
If the defense wants to, they can petition for a "Judge only trial". The theory being that it is somewhat easier to convince one person, who understands the law, than 12 persons who don't understand the law.
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Unless:

§ 320.10 Non-jury trial; when authorized.

1. Except where the indictment charges the crime of murder in the first degree, the defendant, subject to the provisions of subdivision two, may at any time before trial waive a jury trial and consent to a trial without a jury in the superior court in which the indictment is pending.
 
ohioboy said:
Unless:

§ 320.10 Non-jury trial; when authorized.

1. Except where the indictment charges the crime of murder in the first degree, the defendant, subject to the provisions of subdivision two, may at any time before trial waive a jury trial and consent to a trial without a jury in the superior court in which the indictment is pending.
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I was speaking in general terms about the choice to have a Judge only trial. JIM.
 
StarSong said:
I read your referenced article thoroughly. Twice. It neither states nor implies any such thing.
Speaking of BS...
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The article references public dissatisfaction with the problem. Voters kicked out DA Pamela Price (as well as the mayor) because of her radically "soft on crime" policies. In her own words:

Many times people who are perpetrators, are labeled as perpetrators, were actually victims. There's no bright line, certainly not in Alameda County, between someone who's a perpetrator and someone who's a victim.
 
I want to help law enforcement. I'm pretty sure I saw him in in Reno, Nevada. No, wait. I think it was Chicago, Illinois. Or was it Fargo, North Dakota? No, I don't think that was it. Maybe it was Buffalo, New York. No. It was Toronto, Canada. I'm sure it was that. Either that or Sarasota, Florida. Or maybe it was Tampa? Let me think. Was it Tampa? Or was it Bangor Maine? Better check them all out.
 
It's the battle btwn labor and capital, nothing new to see here, just move along.

Wiki- "Economist Jeffrey Sachs described the United States as a corporatocracy in The Price of Civilization (2011).[16] He suggested that it arose from four trends: weak national parties and strong political representation of individual districts, the large U.S. military establishment after World War II, large corporations using money to finance election campaigns, and globalization tilting the balance of power away from workers.[16]

In 2013, economist Edmund Phelps criticized the economic system of the U.S. and other western countries in recent decades as being what he calls "the new corporatism", which he characterizes as a system in which the state is far too involved in the economy and is tasked with "protecting everyone against everyone else", but at the same time, big companies have a great deal of influence on the government, with lobbyists' suggestions being "welcome, especially if they come with bribes".[17]"


unknown author from the net-

"Well, at least he died doing what he loved: gloating to shareholders about how he'd turned healthcare into just another massive wealth transfer system to steal from the weakest and give it to the people who need it the least.

Usually, a gangster like this should be found with a wad of money crammed up his ass. (Monopoly money, perhaps) White collar sociopath no better than Tony Soprano, he just killed and robbed with an algorithm instead of a gun."

Whoa!!!
 
Trade said:
I want to help law enforcement. I'm pretty sure I saw him in in Reno, Nevada. No, wait. I think it was Chicago, Illinois. Or was it Fargo, North Dakota? No, I don't think that was it. Maybe it was Buffalo, New York. No. It was Toronto, Canada. I'm sure it was that. Either that or Sarasota, Florida. Or maybe it was Tampa? Let me think. Was it Tampa? Or was it Bangor Maine? Better check them all out.
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The DJ could have shows at all those Radio Towers.
 
Buckeye said:
Furthermore, you support and cheer for the brutal murder of a young man for doing his job.
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Brian Thompson's job was suffering and death for profit. He was a serial killer, albeit legally, leading an insurance company that issued twice the rate of industry average denials.

I don't normally support vigilantism. Had Thompson's killer shot him in the back without the message he sent with the ejected rounds engraved with "Deny" "Defend" "Depose" and the backpack full of Monopoly money, I would have voted to convict him on a jury. But because of the message, I wouldn't vote for conviction. My view could change if it turns out that the killer was a disgruntled employee with a personal grudge against Thompson who was clever enough to cover a grudge killing by making it look like a revolutionary statement agaist a deadly system. But for now, I support his message and don't care much that Thompson's death was part of it.

This country was founded on Revolution against tyrrany and tyrants died. From what we know at this point, Thompson's killer acted from a similar motive.
 

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