Summary

The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the gunman who killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The gunman, who arrived in New York City on November 24th, shot Thompson on December 4th outside a hotel hosting an investor conference.

Investigators believe the gunman, who concealed his identity with a mask, fled the city on a bus, leaving behind a backpack in Central Park.

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a $50,000 reward

So the cost of an asprin, a bandaid, and 3 jellybeans in a US hospital?

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133 points

Doesn’t even include ambulance ride. City EMS is out of network for UHC

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We had to pay a $2500 fee for the ambulance because my spouse got hit-and-run by a car outside of the county that we live in.

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44 points

Only if your not denied (☞゚ヮ゚)☞

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36 points

They’re gonna frog boil it and end up fucking it up.

100k from the start might have gotten someone to say something that would pay off.

But they’re being cheap and are going to slowly walk it up as I go gets less and less useful and a movement if not giving a fuck grows.

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36 points

Hey, nobody ever claimed the FBI was good at doing its job.

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26 points

Woah, the FBI is amazing at causing controversies, such as violating civil rights, unnecessary shoot outs, politicized investigations, and more!

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That doesn’t seem like it’s enough money to pay an enormous hospital bill.

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So 0.5% of his reported $10+ million annually compensation package.

Interesting that neither his colleagues nor family are chipping in to make this larger.

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39 points

Why would they? That just eats into their profits. It doesn’t make them richer.

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Yup. Dudes body was still warm on the pavement outside and they still had the conference like our was a normal Tuesday. The wealthy are disgusting people. Rotten all the way to the core. They actually think they are the reason society functions.

They are in for a rude awakening. Trump is going to destroy what ever remains of the middle and poor classes, and in response we are going to eat the rich.

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12 points

50,000 dollars is how much the fbi thinks people to turn on each other for

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144 points

They’d have better chances if they offered the former CEO’s one month’s pay.

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I mean yeah. That’s the going rate to sell one’s soul.

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If it was Elon Musk do you think they would still pretend he only made $1 as a salary?

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I think they’d publicly wave around a vague concept hinting at the potential sum, then if the shooter was caught, they’d really come out and give a $1 reward to a whistleblower if only just to make a mockery of the concept.

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Sounds about right. The peasants do what the rich want because the rich think everyone should do what they say and the peasants think they will get rewarded. Neither is true.

A $1 reward would just be the punchline.

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