Claim: Words Were Written on Assassin's Bullets -- "Deny," "Depose," and "Defend" -- Which Reference an Anti-Health-Care-Corporation Book

Leftwing agitation never leads to violence, which is why the straight-shooters of the FBI focus all of their attention on 70-year-old grandmothers who posted tweets about the 2020 election being stolen.

I wonder if they mean the shell casings had the words written on them. It seems unlikely these words would be written on bullets, or that the bullets would be intact enough to read these scratches as words.

Police investigating the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson found engraved messages on bullets used in the killing. The words, eerily resembling a book title critical of the insurance industry, hint at a possible motive.

Key Details:

Brian Thompson, 50, was fatally shot outside the Midtown Hilton Hotel on December 4, 2024.

NYPD recovered bullets and casings engraved with the words "deny," "depose," and "defend."

The suspect used a silenced weapon, fled on an e-bike, and may have left a phone near the crime scene.

Diving Deeper:

UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was killed in what police are calling a "targeted" assassination outside a luxury Manhattan hotel early Wednesday morning. The 50-year-old executive was ambushed at close range by a masked gunman wielding a silenced firearm.

The NYPD discovered a chilling clue among the evidence: live rounds and shell casings engraved with the words "deny," "depose," and "defend." These words closely align with the title of a 2010 book critical of the insurance industry, Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It.

Thompson, who had been CEO of UnitedHealthcare since 2021, was in town to host an investor conference. Surveillance footage shows the suspect waiting outside the Hilton Hotel before firing multiple shots at Thompson, striking his back and leg. The attack continued even as the victim attempted to crawl away.

The assassin didn't have his mask on when he was caught on a videocamera at the youth hostel he was presumably staying in.

The NYPD has released new photos of the gunman who shot and killed UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50, on Wednesday outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown.

The new images show the suspect's face, which had previously been hidden behind a mask, with the gunman even seen flashing a smile.

The photos were taken from an Upper West Side youth hostel where police believe he might have been staying at before the shooting.

I'm comfortable with my initial reaction that this is an antifa or antifa-adjacent political killing. I don't believe the wife hired this killer. A hired killer doesn't laugh and grin about his upcoming murder. This is a politically-motivated assassin who is savoring the thought of taking that ecstatic shot.

Update: I was sloppy. This isn't necessarily the killer, just a "person of interest."

Tim Pool @Timcast

i dont think this is the shooter.

Different backpack

Thats why they said person of interest

Maybe he just shared a room with the killer or something. But if he's an innocent, why does the NYPD have to put out his picture to find him? A non-criminal would presumably have checked into the hostel using, get this, his real name.

America's Oldest Fake Teenager Taylor Lorenz -- who whines incessantly about online bullies sending her "death threats" and "hate" -- took zero time before celebrating the assassination as Righteous Kill.

Not content with praising and defending the first assassination, Tay-Tay set herself to suggesting who the assassins should murder next:

She's now claiming she wasn't calling for the murders of executives when she justified the murders of executives. She was just a "reporter" "reporting" on the sentiment surrounding a story.

If the heavy teenage-girl eyeliner didn't give it away, that's a photoshop of Taylor Lorenz.

posted by Ace at 12:00 PM

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