In announcing charges, the New York district attorney called the shooting of Brian Thompson a "frightening, well-planned and targeted murder".
  • BossDj@lemm.ee
    96·
    13 hours ago

    “in its most basic terms, this was a killing that was intended to evoke terror”

    Who? Who was it to terrorize? Finish your sentence. Was it billionaires who steal money from hard working Americans then let them die from denied coverage? Was the answer?

    • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
      12·
      6 hours ago

      was intended to evoke terror

      So basically, the whole premise of the American death penalty? As opposed to the deaths and bankruptcies that create terror that health insurance companies are allowed to promote, or the terror created by those who arrest mothers getting their health insurance appeals denied because they echo their mottos back to them to attempt to suppress any popular support at a revolution?

      I will say, with Trump getting voted in, Americans have shit timing at their attempts at revolutions. This is the last millisecond type of stuff, quite lacking and even somewhat (but not very) controversial.

  • Bieren@lemmy.world
    53·
    12 hours ago

    It’s embarrassing that the murder of 1 CEO is a bigger news story than yet another school shooting.

    • tobogganablaze@lemmus.orgEnglish
      10·
      5 hours ago

      It makes sense though. School schootings are depressing and happen all the time. The CEO murder was a breath of fresh air.

    • ramsorge@discuss.online
      23·
      11 hours ago

      I didn’t even see it. I was told by someone. That’s how “normal” it is. Apparently it was a girl too, that’s rare. Not news worthy? Ffs.

      • naught@sh.itjust.works
        5·
        9 hours ago

        I don’t really keep up anymore and I heard about this fwiw. Haven’t heard about Luigi nearly as much save for memes

        • ramsorge@discuss.online
          4·
          8 hours ago

          Well, the judicial process is a lot slower than our desire for change. Events take weeks or months. Also, I’m sure the prosecution wants to give it time to die down. Hoping that the jury will soften up. If it were to be tried today, he has significantly more chance of winning.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    531·
    13 hours ago

    In the nearly two weeks since Mr Thompson’s killing, we have seen a shocking and appalling celebration of cold-blooded murder," Tisch said. “We don’t celebrate murders and we don’t lionise the killing of anyone.”

    Tisch is the NYPD commissioner, but more importantly here she is the daughter of a billion dollar “family” corporation CEO.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loews_Corporation

    Eric Adams has been appointing her to the head of random city agencies for a couple years now, and I’m sure it’s a coincidence he’s under corruption charges and she is just that great

  • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
    342·
    14 hours ago

    I didn’t realize killing pond scum was a crime now. Home improvement stores are about to find themselves in deep shit.

  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    11 hours ago

    I wasn’t even thinking of them playing the terrorism card but here we are.

    various charges, including first-degree murder, and two counts of second-degree murder

    How does that work?

    • Raxiel@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      I get a lot of courtroom videos on my feed, and it seems any time someone shouts something aggressive they tack on a “terroristic threat” charge.

    • Starbuncle@lemmy.caEnglish
      31·
      5 hours ago

      It’s the new “3/5 Compromise”: normal people are worth 1 person each, but CEOs are worth 3.

    • underisk@lemmy.ml
      61·
      10 hours ago

      could they be trying to scare him with the amount of charges into accepting a plea deal. I doubt they want this going to trial.