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From reddit: Brian Thompson was a drunk driver, insider trader, fraudster, and separated from his wife for years

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Normally, I'd say it's poor taste to speak ill of the dead. Normally.
That's not what the motivation is here. The media are
aware that the family can bury them
afraid to lose their jobs
beholden to their ~~masters~~ shareholders (or their Rupert Murdochs)
trying to make this go away
not on the side of the American people
- For media companies it's not usually shareholders that call the shots, it's one obscenely rich old guy, like Rupert Murdoch.

Mass murderer was finally stopped by one of his victims

If you’re a fucking millionaire, at least have the decency to hire a driver when you’re sauced. Ffs.
- No, he didn't get enough thrill of a kill from work, it's not the same, don't be mean like that to this poor person.
- Even if you're not a millionaire, please at least get an Uber or taxi.
- chill, it's called booze cruising

Well, other than drunk driving, insider trading, fraud and failing at his marriage and being a CEO of a firm that prevented people from getting the health care they need, he was a really nice guy.
- You're thinking of the Chief Executive Officer, we're the Office of Executive Chiefs.
  
  Splitters!

Fake news don't see no crime the way we don't see no murder.
The Adjuster is a public servant, never forget.

separated from his wife for years
Remember that according to the FBI more than half of murderers know their victims personally, and about a quarter are family relations.
I think the police really need to drop this whole "assassination" false flag and investigate the more probable angles. Could be that he was closeted and killed by a jilted lover, or the husband of the secretary he was banging, or a hitman hired by the estranged wife. No sense in harassing every man with a green jacket over this.
- False flag? What are you on m8? Just gonna invenet your own narrative? The bullets had writing on that was a title of an book bashing g the industry...
  
  Just trying to get the cops to stop harassing innocent and unrelated people is all.
  
  He gotta be on poppers...
- It looked too amateurish to be a hit, although I suppose it could have been a budget hitman.
  
  How many hits have you seen to be able to judge the quality?
  
  From a movie hitman perspective sure. Real life "hits" don't look like they do in the movies though. You can find videos of truly amateurish hits online easily. The most violent cities in US see them happen often. Whomever this person did this was calm, seemed disciplined, got the job done. On a scale from drive by to James Bond, I'd put him solidly in the middle.
  
  Most 'budget' hitmen would have been caught by now. The average hitman is a local schlub who has no idea what they're doing and can't even afford to leave the city or neighborhood that they live in. The police speculate that the guy was from out of town and probably left the city ASAP. While we really have no idea what his story is, he probably is a slightly above average hitman if he managed to kill someone as important as Brian Thimpson and still evaded capture after almost a week.
  While murderers have been caught months or even years after the fact, those murders aren't as brazen or open as this one was.
  
  You think? An amateur would not have had that level of composure when the gun jammed. At a minimum they understood the limitations of their tools beforehand and was not surprised when it happened.
  
  Maybe it was a hitman job at https://assassinexpress.com/? Cheap and works only once?

Being separated from his wife is personal and not something I'd judge someone for. The rest is ok
- Of course, until the media paints him as a "beloved father and husband."
  It's not judgment, just correcting the record.
  
  That makes sense. I've not followed the media portrayal, so I wasn't aware of that context.
  
  Beloved father may well still be true.
- He's from corporate so he's not really part of our family.... And divorced so he's not really part of his family
- Exactly, that's not a crime, nor is it immoral. Why mix it with the real shit?
  
  because the media is constantly harping on how this guy was a husband with kids as if that makes his death inexcusable. if even his family was sick of his shit it kinda puts that narrative to bed.
  
  Context. Otherwise we are dichtomous animals. Wisdom requires context logic does not.
  
  Fake news loved top tell he is married with kid... this dude don't live with his wife...

And all that does not matter, he headed up a corporation which took peoples money to insure them against costs associated with their health care, and then denied paying out money his company had promised them when they needed it causing suffering and death. Those facts are indisputable.
- Yes but have you thought of those poor shareholders? How are they going to afford to hire their yacht staff if they aren’t rolling in bank? Can’t let a little pain and suffering get in the way of that.

Props to Klippenstein, he's consistently been an exemplar* of good journalism
- Props to Klippenstein, he's consistently been an examlar of good journalism
  When David Grusch testified that UFOs are real, Klippenstein made a point of exposing that Grusch had past issues with PTSD and alcoholism stemming from his service.
  Examlar indeed.
  
  That seems relevant to me, a disinterested observer. 🤷‍♂️
  
  lol. You guys had me looking up "examlar" thinking I was going to learn a new word.
  My hopes were dashed as I've discovered that you two just misspelled "exemplar". Probably on purpose. I'm sure of it. How dare you!
- Kenny Klipps does great work, one of the very few last bastions of actual journalism remaining in America.
- True, but also consistently under fire for actually being a good journalist. If you're reading this keep up the good fight!

mind that if this were a black child shot in the back by a white supremacist they would be researching his life day and night to find maybe one photo where he made a weird hand sign so they can say he was no angel and maybe he was a gang member who knows ...
but an actual demon gets killed and the opposite campaign begins
- Nah, they have definitely scoured back years of Facebook photos just to find a single one that isn't gang signs or posing with an illegal-in-illinois handgun.

It reminds me of the whole "don't speak ill of the dead" as if them dying suddenly exonerates them from being a massive pile of shit while they were alive.

I won't miss him.

Can we get a link to an article or something?
- The first article on his website

Whenever it's someone killed by the cops they immediately expose anything negative they can find about the victim.

Lucky he wasn't darker than a light tan

Also he was a murderer
- Murderer by proxy which is much worse, in my opinion.
  
  Hard to say. By proxy implies every engineer, everyone who works on an oil rig cause that's the available jobs etc etc. is evil. This guy didn't directly kill anyone, but it's hard to say by proxy. Unless you just mean proxy in the sense of "he ordered someone else to do it" in which case I agree.

Usually it is the dead horse that you have to tell people to stop beating.
These posts are starting to sound like Trump talking about immigrants.
- Oh boy if you're sick of it already, good luck, I have a feeling this whole can of worms is just starting to be opened
- These posts are starting to sound like Trump talking about immigrants.
  Nice try champ... You sound like Ben Shapiro and Tim Pool, prolly better place for you to hang anyway. bye
- Bit disrespectful towards horses there mate

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