"We're gonna get this guy": Cops have 200 pics of Brian Thompson assassin as they give 5-word update

Statistically, there were likely 4 more murders in NYC since this one, I'm sure they're investigating those just as thoroughly.

If he had killed any of us, the cops wouldn't give a shit.

Remember that.

I love how they're using the full force of their resources to catch this guy, but a random murder they put two detectives on for a few months, shrug and close the case.

In addition to looking for the killer, police are still searching for a motive as to why someone would kill Thompson.

This is definitely where they need to focus their resources first.

They are wasting a lot of time and money and energy on this investigation

If he shows up at my door, I'll gladly house him. You should too.

When people wonder why everyone calls police class traitors remember this

Best of luck with getting cooperation from citizens at large.

Oh shit, a crime the cops actually have to solve, haha, can't just frame some poor sap this time gotta do some actual detective work. I hope they never catch him and the PD gets defunded. I know its NYC and they need cops but I think they could use a haircut at least

It's already been two and a half days. The longer they go without catching him the less likely it will be that they do.

The fact that they are issuing a wider manhunt seems to back that up.

Given the publicity, I'm sure that they'll catch a guy, but I'm skeptical that they'll catch that guy.

Jury nullification.

By all means do. I can't wait to hear this man's story.

And good luck getting a conviction. Jury Nullification go brrrrr

Police realize 1 video is made of 200 pictures

200 pics are big boy words.

That's at least 10 seconds of video footage at 20 FPS.

If they do find him, the prosecutors are going to have a hell of a time trying to weed out anyone interested in jury nullification.

Imagine what happens if they fail, and they can't even produce a fall guy?

The thing is, Americans know their police force is lazy and useless. We're all joking about all the murders that will go unsolved that have occurred since the CEO's death. Now, there's a real chance that their incompetence will be on full display. Is it really out of the question to think that they have become so impotent that someone could carefully plan and execute an assassination?

i bet this will become the first public example of the state surveillance being used to protect our oligarchy from us and; given the democrat's obstinacy when it came to constructive criticism during the election; americans will treat it as another nothing-burger like they did with the genocide and it'll become yet another nail in the coffin of the american empire's decline; besides the election, ukraine's defeat, afghanistan withdrawal, iraqi wmd's, etc.

Unfortunately, I've worked with a lot of republicans in my lifetime. Hating overpaid CEOs and thinking insurance is a scam are 2 of the only things I've seen republicans and democrats agree on. Good fucking luck convicting him.

So many resources spent for one dead white guy. I dont imagine every murder gets this much attention and expensive work done on it.

"we're going to get this guy"

Twist: that's not the guy that shot him...

If the FBI and the NYPD don't have the footage they need within 1 week, their ability to catch the right guy will diminish, as CCTV feeds from across the country get overwritten. If the suspect can grow and keep facial hair it would probably be difficult to match against these images. They could request some from the bus centers in Atlanta, New York and every stop in between but there's only so much footage they'll be able to get their hands on, this person seems to know what they were doing and staying less identifiable in public.

If this guy has any brains at all, he's in Timbuktu by now.

I'm wondering if they're holding back on sharing extra pictures of him, because by now they must be aware that the likelihood of people helping him hide is super high

Homer Simpson: No you won't.

Do one a week and they'll get overwhelmed. They can't put all their resources into a dozen different manhunts each, by definition.

they are so annoyed that they actually have to do any work because the subject was rich.

Just need to keep calling in with bogus tips. Say we saw him across the country.

I seent him in Bogota! I swears it!

"Why?"

how about some totally true tips we saw him walk past nearby?

50 years later they finally find him having lived a long fruitful life I'm Santa Monica as a smile model in Colgate commercials. Had 10 children with a beautiful model wife who loved him. Probably worked at the muffler shop for 20 years before discovering his Passion for photography.

Limp dick regime goons aint got shit... and the long this goes, the more likely he will get away with it.

I hope all of these business "leadership" add this to their calculus when they fuck over paying customers to live large.

FAFO

All this time and energy for this good guy, what a waste, fuck cops.

police are still searching for a motive as to why someone would kill Thompson.

Someone assassinates a legal serial killer, and cops are looking for a motive?

Wow, those hiring requirements that disqualify applicants if they have too high of an IQ is really working out well for the police force.

This is how I learn that Optum is a subsidiary. Even more apropos that this happened just before I took my wife to another chemo appointment at a facility that was recently bought by Optum ... two and a half weeks late because insurance dragged its feet on authorization.

Press X to doubt.

The reality is: Unless he fled the country he was always going to be caught. That is the point of living in a surveillance state. It was just a matter of time.

As a thought exercise, imagine a bathroom. Ten people go in. One person flips their jacket inside out. Ten people come out. Do you suddenly lose that one person who now has a green jacket instead of a red one? No. You realize the person with a green jacket never "entered" and know something was up.

And now extend that to every single traffic camera, security camera, and so forth in the city and in the country. Because now that "bathroom" is a camera at every major exit in and out of Central Park as well as places where the shrubbery is low enough that you can hop a fence.

And yes, that is a VERY large amount of data. If only we had spent the past few decades learning to represent things as graph problems, how to use computer vision to automate recognition, and so forth.

It was obviously dramatized (and is fascinating from a production standpoint and how much effort they put in to keep the nazi from killing anyone...) but Person of Interest wasn't some dystopic future. It was, if anything, underestimating what is already possible.

So... here is hoping that ridiculously handsome G went straight to the airport and flew to a non extradition treaty country. Probably didn't though and is probably going to get picked up at a bus station.

Also: For all the gun nuts who think you rae going to use your closet full of AR-15s to scream "WILDCATS" and fight off the fascists or invaders or whatever? They'll have access to those cameras too and will be able to figure out what house or cave you are hiding in and send a few drones. So... yeah

This reminds me of the kid from die hard 3 "look around all the cops are busy, it's christmas you could steal city hall"

Edit: Found it this one https://youtu.be/47YCsqVhgCQ?feature=shared

In an alternate universe:

"WE FOUND EM'!"

(Proceeds to walk on a stage with the assassin to shake his hand.)

"We just wanted to bring you here to thank you on all our behalf, you really didn't need to run. We're behind you all the way on the next one!"

The boot lickers licking some boot

Run, Forrest, RUN!

A 24 frames a second film has 24 photos, so they have roughly 8 seconds of footage?

"200 pics" yeah, sure. They don't know shit.

The cops have health insurance with United. I'm pretty sure they're not going to get this guy.

ah shit. Run, bro.

I hope they fail

Probably have 200 pictures of the back of his hood. None of them worth a damn

Going by the title I thought I was in c/theonion for a second. Or c/nottheonion.

Black, brown or cream jacket. So hard to tell them apart!

"we are gonna get this guy"

I count 6

That's actually 6 words.