Was Wesley LePatner another Brian Thompson? Was she possibly Luigied?

Unlike Thompson, she wasn’t a targeted victim.

Here's an interesting factoid. My neighbor is a construction worker and spent last weekend installing new doors at 345 Park. Everybody got new locks, but the CEOs got steel-beam reinforced bullet-proofed doors for their offices. Pussies.

Was Wesley LePatner another Brian Thompson? NO

Was she possibly Luigied? NO

I assume you have a higher IQ than your shitty lowbrow sensationalist click bait headline, OP. So why be such a trash person? Does it amuse you?

I thought the shooter was some brain-damaged NFL type, and he got off on the wrong floor.

Just like how OJ probably thought he was stabbing Kathie Lee Gifford that night.

Athletes are so stupid!

Some are claiming she, or at least Blackstone, was targeted and the media is hiding it.

The whole thing is making me sick. Yes, private equity, like the insurance industry, a big reason for our growing class divide. But the CEOs who find themselves in these roles are just bright people who worked hard and excelled in their industry to land in the high seats. If these are the industries who’ve chosen, then what else are you supposed to do? Everyone wants to get to the top in their industries.

Maybe that’s the argument: that no one should work in these broken industries, but that’s just naive. And of course murder is not something we should be justifying, and if your scroll through TikTok it is nuts to see how many seemingly normal people publicly are.

[quote]I thought the shooter was some brain-damaged NFL type, and he got off on the wrong floor.

R5 is right. A careful read of this NYT article linked from OP's article shows the gunman wasnt targetting Blackstone or their employees but the NFL which is in the same building. He had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or C.T.E., a brain disease that has afflicted people who play contact sports, and he had a note in his wallet referencing that - explains why he got off on the wrong floor too.

Given that LePatner was Jewish I initially thought that's another possibility but nope. Wrong place, wrong time

unfortunately, i think it was just a happy coincidence.

america is literally founded on a philosophy of unreasonable submission and servitude to employers and bosses. americans will never move beyond their fascination with licking boots.

If you look at the TikTok discourse (as it were), it’s concerning how little distinction younger people are making when it comes to the CEO label. What started as a conversation about the broken insurance industry, and now private equity, has morphed into an anti-CEO vibe all around.

I had initially heard he was targeting the NFL office, but since then have heard that this was another Luigi type event. What she was doing was pretty awful.

I believe they’re covering it up to avoid the public showing support for the killer the way they did for LM. I don’t blame them for that, I guess, but it’s not going to work.

Quel surprise. Gen Z is about vibes and facts are fluid.

[quote]But the CEOs who find themselves in these roles are just bright people who worked hard and excelled in their industry to land in the high seats. If these are the industries who’ve chosen, then what else are you supposed to do?

Yes, and Nazi soldiers were just hardworking cops who had no other options. People DO have choices. And her choices were pretty gross. If what you’re doing is destroying the dreams, lives of others out of greed, then you should reconsidered what you’re doing.

R13, I agree with this. There are many hapless middle management drones who can use this defense, but not someone like Wesley LePatner. She had every possible advantage in life. She, of all people, had choices and we can judge her by those choices.

And I am r14. I am judging her for her choices. From the sounds of it, she could have easily been a target of a Luigi type.

Sounds like her shooting was a "bonus". Too bad it didn't draw attention to what private equity is doing to the cost of housing.

So I guess that’s the question, R13. Who is evil and who is just working within an industry that exists? I have serious issues with what private equity has done and believe health/insurance in this country are borderline criminal. And yet both of those industries are massive. They employ millions. And among those who work within those industries, climbing up the ladder is a goal of most of them. So who is evil and who is not? And who gets to be the judge of that? I don’t have the answer.

[quote]he had a note in his wallet referencing

And that is the sole piece of evidence that authorities are relying upon to make this fairy tale stick. The killer did not play professional or even college football. The (bogus) claim was that he played in high school and sustained injuries leading to CTE, but since 1) we will not confirm that football injuries lead to CTE so that the NFL remains shielded from liability; 2) Tamura has never been diagnosed with CTE; and 3) really? High school football is the only link to why this killer, who also claimed he'd been a victim in a house purchase dispute, was willing to drive 2500 miles across the country rather than, say, killing an NFL official at his local franchise?

A "grotesque display" indeed.

Let's look at reality. The media is now completely corporate-owned. When Luigi burst onto the scene, there was an uprising of folks who took to this anti-corporate and anti-CEO mob mentality, and it scared the fuck out of CEOs across the nation. Remember how authorities really, really tried to downplay the anti-CEO angle of Luigi's actions and manifesto? Recall that Trump made a big announcement and noise about prosecuting Luigi to the maximum, even mentioning the death penalty (despite it being a state case and the Feds were only involved because Trump wanted them involved)? What was so special about this random murder that brought instant condemnation from on high?

It's called circling the wagons.

Unfortunately societal change doesn't happen until heads start to roll and elites/oligarchs fear for their lives. Sad, but true.

R18 fair points, you may well be right. The media are very easily manipulated these days as we've seen with other issues

It’s very interesting that these people all go CEO hunting in Midtown Manhattan.

Well, R21, when asked why he robbed banks, Willie Sutton (although widely attributed to Al Capone) said "because that's where the money is."