A grainy image of his face drew comparisons to Hollywood heartthrobs. A jacket similar to the one he’s wearing on wanted posters is reportedly flying off the shelves. And the words written on the bullets he used to kill a man in cold blood on a sidewalk on Wednesday have become, for some people, a rallying cry.

Four days after a gunman assassinated a top health insurance executive in Midtown Manhattan and vanished, the unidentified suspect has, in some quarters, been venerated as something approaching a folk hero.

  • @captainlezbian
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    1410 days ago

    Dude, I was at the grocery store and the manager started joking about killing ceos to me. I’d only made a comment about our state not having banned beer yet. This is mainstream, unlike lemmy