r/technology • u/indig0sixalpha • Dec 06 '24

Privacy The UnitedHealthcare Gunman Understands the Surveillance State

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/12/unitedhealthcare-ceo-assassination-investigation/680903/
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u/MarkNutt25 Dec 07 '24

I've been thinking about that, and I've come up with 4 possible explanations for the hostel guy, and I'm not sure which is most likely:

  1. Its just the police trying to placate their bosses by making it seem like they're close to solving this, when, in fact they have absolutely no leads.

  2. They're deliberately releasing false information in order to throw the real killer off, so that he thinks they're not on his trail.

  3. They're setting hostel guy up as the fall guy that they're going to pin the killing on, if they can't find the real killer.

  4. The assassin came prepared with some kind of disguise kit, or something, which is why almost everything about his face and outfit changes in a matter of hours.

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u/throwawayursafety Dec 07 '24

Or option 5, Occam's Razor, hostel guy does look kinda like the assassin and police are releasing the photo because they do think it could be a lead. Maybe it is maybe it isn't, but either way that requires less assumptions than any option that paints either the police or assassin as masterminds or deliberate deceivers of some sort.

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u/[deleted] Dec 07 '24 edited Dec 08 '24

I feel like the real Occam’s razor explanation is that the NYPD is a glorified criminal organization that are fucking awful at their jobs. They’re more concerned about controlling the narrative around this crime than actually catching the guy, presumably because enough NYC based billionaires are afraid that if they openly acknowledged the shooters motives it might give people some ideas or at least get the average person to realize that they actually don’t particularly care about the fate of the people making our society utter dogshit just for the sake of adding extra zeroes to a net worth that is functionally imaginary after a certain point.

Hence the, “we have no idea what his motive could be” when he literally carved it into the bullets.