(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . "Deny, Defend, Deflect" [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-12-05 Not much of pro if you have to re-rack a round after each trigger-pull. Like he’d never practice-fired the gun with the suppressor mounted. Police seek public help with suspect's photo Social media users speculate on weapon and escape route Online sleuths' theories can mislead investigations Dec 5 (Reuters) - Zooming in on surveillance footage of a gun that could have had a silencer fitted to it. Scouring the web to identify the brand of a backpack. Triangulating data of a rental bike to uncover an escape route. shocking murder in Manhattan of UnitedHealthcare (UNH.N) , opens new tab CEO Brian Thompson - what police called a targeted killing - brought out a bevy of sleuths and true-crime fans across social media looking for clues about the killer's motivation and how he managed to flee from the scene and seemingly disappear into the city of more than 8 million people. Wednesday'sin Manhattan of UnitedHealthcareCEO Brian Thompson - what police called a targeted killing - brought out a bevy of sleuths and true-crime fans across social media looking for clues about the killer's motivation and how he managed to flee from the scene and seemingly disappear into the city of more than 8 million people. releasing a photo with a clear view of his face. By Thursday, police were examining evidence ranging from surveillance video to items discarded nearby that could contain DNA to find the killer. Authorities also asked for the public's help,with a clear view of his face. Meanwhile, platforms including Bluesky, Reddit and X sprouted hundreds of posts from amateur gumshoes poring over video and photos. "Dude had a suppressor, which is an extremely difficult thing to acquire, especially in a state like New York," wrote one Reddit user. numerous rioters who took part in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, following Joe Biden's presidential election victory in 2020. Such forums are rife with so-called internet detectives who pick through publicly available reports to uncover information in the aftermath of major crimes. Sometimes, they succeed: Online sleuths helped investigators identifywho took part in the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, following Joe Biden's presidential election victory in 2020. @VegasMike27 The guy who killed United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson isn't a super assassin. He left at the scene 3 live FMJ rounds and 3 spent shell casings. He's not using a B&T Station Six-9, you can see the slide move in the zoomed video which the BT 6 doesn't have a slide. Also he went to Starbucks before the shooting and is on video and NYPD has items from there they are testing for DNA. This seems personal... And in the process extracted live rounds from having to rack the slide so many times. My point is that people are saying he's using a special manually operated gun or he wants it to jam so he can collect the casings. But he left 3 live rounds and 3 cases at the scene. It's just a gun that's not functioning properly. They see the suppressor and their minds are blown. It could be a $20 solvent trap from amazon. But most don't even know what a solvent trap is or nielsen device is. They just see the suppressor and think, "OMG it's John Wick." @kaitlancollins Wow. Per @JohnMillerCNN, among the interviews law enforcement has been conducting, they spoke to a female employee at the hostel who said, at one point, she asked the then-masked man to lower his mask while flirting with him, which is when this photo released by NYPD today was taken. Although some social media commentators have condemned the yassification of the killer’s image—“control yourself” wrote one person—the fawning over an alleged murderer seems to reflect a phenomenon called hybristophilia. DeSales University professor of forensic psychology described it as type of attraction when a person “gets sexually aroused over someone else committing an offensive or violent act” in an 2018 interview with Cosmopolitan. The public’s recent fascination with the Menendez brothers, Ted Bundy and other men of ill repute over the years seem to back this up. Although there is “no empirical research” to illustrate just how common the phenomenon is, said Louis B. Schlesinger, Ph.D., comments about the UnitedHealthcare executive’s suspected shooter suggest it’s alive and well. www.thedailybeast.com/... [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/12/5/2290443/-Deny-Defend-Deflect?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=trending&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/