Police Investigate NYC 'Wanted' Posters of Finance Executives

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Bloomberg

December 11, 2024 at 4:46 PM EST
Updated on December 12, 2024 at 10:48 AM EST


The New York Police Department is investigating a number of ‘WANTED’ posters of senior executives that have been hung in parts of Manhattan. The posters included images of insurance leaders including UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s Brian Thompson, who was murdered last Wednesday, as well as executives from financial firms. The posters of Thompson were crossed out with a red X.

It’s the latest development among a string of incidents causing anxiety among business leaders in the wake of the fatal shooting of Thompson. In addition to the posters, police are aware of a surge in online threats against executives, according to an NYPD spokesman.

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged with Thompson’s murder, was found with a manifesto condemning high profits of the health care industry, saying “these parasites simply had it coming.”

The NYPD has said it’s on alert for “a risk that a wide range of extremists may view Mangione as a martyr and an example to follow,” according to a law enforcement document reviewed by Bloomberg. “Rhetoric may signal an elevated threat facing executives in the near-term.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-12-11/cops-investigate-wanted-posters-of-executives-around-nyc

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[MichMan]

1. Wonder if all the health insurance operations in NYC are thinking about leaving the city and moving ?

[RockRaven]

7. Not sure what good that would do. The CEO and killer were both from elsewhere

and in NYC because of a Wall St/corporate event. Moving your company won't change the fact that sometimes you need to do corporate events in NYC because of Wall St.

[MichMan]

9. I suppose. If I was in upper management, I would avoid going in a hostile area if my life was in danger.

I'd be worried about copycat crimes especially with these posters being displayed

[NotHardly]

15. Wonder how NYPD is doing on those 357 unsolved murders & 2000 unanalyzed rap kits?

[MichMan]

17. Remind me again why I have no desire to go to NYC

Went one time about 30 years ago. Not for me.

[hlthe2b]

2. I understand the alarm but wondering what can be done. 'Not sure those posting these

are breaking any real laws--maybe a nuisance ordinance posting on certain objects or private property, but... If Trump and his ilk's call-out of all his perceived enemies 24/7 is not illegal, despite the obvious risk posed to those targets, how can this be? (Devil's advocate only... I'm not condoning).

[TommyT139]

11. Double-standards will be in effect indefinitely

[NotHardly]

16. Great question ... goes to the multi-tiered legal system we have, I think.

[Think. Again.]

3. Wow, I guess NYPD isn't too busy with actual crimes...

....if they can spend time and money on things that might be "akin" to crimes.

"Because the posters, which echo the words etched on bullet casings found by Thompson, instill fear and are explicitly threatening in nature, they are “out of the realm of something that would constitute free speech and more akin to something that would be considered a crime,” Rebecca Weiner, deputy commissioner for intelligence and counterterrorism at the NYPD, said by phone." - from the article

These corporate lords sure do get top-notch treatment!

[Orrex]

6. If I were responsible for tens of thousands of deaths, I'd expect to see a few wanted posters of me

[Think. Again.]

8. I agree.

[Orrex]

4. Kind of like when the GOP uses imagery of Democrats in the crosshairs of a rifle sight, for instance?

[RockRaven]

5. They are gonna spend more time on those posters than the non-CEO murders

that happened this week.

[Think. Again.]

10. Yep.

For posters. In NYC.

I think there are structures in NYC that would fall down if the layers of posters weren't holding them up.

[TommyT139]

12. Mayor Adams

Has been cozying up to the Trump administration, recently -- even apart from his having been more of a cop than a rethug-turned-Democrat for years now.

[Martin68]

13. What will it take to get a health care system that Americans can afford?

[Prairie Gates]

14. Are they illegal?

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Don't these yahoos shoot up Obama and Biden targets at the gun range?

Are they gonna charge for wheatpasting?

If they're worried about illegal stickers and posted bills in NYC, they are gonna have to investigate nearly every stackable surface, no?