• @paultimate14
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    622 days ago

    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.

    • @STOMPYI
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      122 days ago

      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…

    • @samus12345
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      22 days ago

      It looked too amateurish to be a hit, although I suppose it could have been a budget hitman.

      • @STOMPYI
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        322 days ago

        How many hits have you seen to be able to judge the quality?

      • @Acrimonious
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        212 days ago

        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.

      • @[email protected]
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        102 days ago

        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.

        • @samus12345
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          True, not being caught yet is impressive, whether it be luck or skill.

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      • @[email protected]
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        52 days ago

        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.

        • @STOMPYI
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          32 days ago

          I don’t think it jammed, some kind of silencer issue where you have to manual reload. I don’t know guns just repeating talk I’ve heard. So the gunman would have known to manually reload like that…

          • @[email protected]
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            42 days ago

            He likely had an unregistered suppressor, which would lack a part that prevents jams. I’ve seen people saying he was probably accounting for the possibility of a jam

            • @[email protected]
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              32 days ago

              Yes I was dumbing it down but you’re both right. My point is that they new it would happen and was prepared for it, ensuring smooth operation regardless of the limitation.

        • @samus12345
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          22 days ago

          If the guy they’re claiming did it, did it, he wasn’t a hitman.