• piyuv@lemmy.world
    10123·
    11 days ago

    You’ll get arrested for wearing this in public but not denying health insurance claim to 900.000 people

    • Mojave@lemmy.world
      85·
      10 days ago

      This is too victim complex-y. You can wear tee shirts supporting violence, nobody is going to arrest you.

    • 2pt_perversion@lemmy.world
      411·
      11 days ago

      In the US? I don’t think this shirt would violate any law or get you arrested. There was that guy with the “I eat ass” bumper sticker that got arrested for profanity but the state attorney dropped it because it probably is protected free speech.

        • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
          331·
          10 days ago

          guys no cop is going to fuck with you for a t-shirt like this. Ive hung out in the punk scene for decades and people wear clothing with very, very explicit anarchist and anti cop etc language and no cops are stopping people for fuckin t-shirts.

      • jaybone@lemmy.world
        13·
        10 days ago

        If you can prove in a court of law that you eat ass, you should be protected under the first amendment.

        • swim@slrpnk.net
          5·
          10 days ago

          Lol you can lie on a fucking bumper sticker, lying is generally not illegal, itself (it would have to be a component of fraud or other real crimes).

    • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      252·
      11 days ago

      They’ll skip that. They can’t actually get you convicted anyways, they’ll just get the thugs with badges to beat you for “resisting arrest”, then shoot you because “they feared for their life”.

    • xorollo@leminal.space
      4930·
      10 days ago

      I wish the noose wasn’t there. It’s unrelated to the incident, and it’s a method of murder associated with black people, not CEOs. Make it a guillotine or just a normal shadow.

      • Sculptus Poe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 days ago

        I think it’s meant to mean that the CEO looks like just a guy there, but from the shadows he is really actively threatening the life of the guy shooting at him.

        • Maggoty@lemmy.world
          82·
          10 days ago

          In the US specifically, there is an association with lynching. Lynching was the preferred method of white towns for dealing with any black person they felt stepped out of line or committed a crime from about 1865-1965. This article provides a good run down.

          • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
            7·
            6 days ago

            A lot were hung from the neck to their death, many (maybe most?) victims of lynchings were only “strung up” for display after they were already slowly tortured to death, such as cutting off the victims’ fingers and ears, genitals, stabbing them with corkscrews to pull out twitching entrails and chunks of muscle, beaten nearly to death, and thrown on a fire, still writhing, or all of the above, such Luther Holbert in 1904. I don’t think I’ve seen photos of one lynching were the bodies weren’t bloodied and battered, if not utterly mutilated.

            The association of nooses, of gallows executions, with lynching understates the inhumanity and depravity of it. The public display of such senseless brutality, based solely on race, was the point: it was to keep everyone, white and black, in line, as you put it. White kids took home fingers and teeth as souvenirs; it seems to me that it usually had nothing to do with whatever pretext. The pretexts used to justify the lynchings, such as one US Army private who refused to empty his pockets before shopping, or one free man who addressed a sheriff by the name on his shirt without saying Mister first, are things that were not crimes.

            The reasons didn’t actually matter to the perpetrators, victims didn’t actually have to commit a crime to be singled and murdered. Even when there was a criminal charge, it was usually bogus and the trial was always a sham. I’m not trying to pick on you Maggoty but I like you so I want you to appreciate what you’re saying.

            https://eji.org/wp-content/uploads/2005/11/lynching-in-america-3d-ed-110121.pdf

            • Maggoty@lemmy.world
              32·
              10 days ago

              You don’t like me, I’m Pro Palestinian. You’re also talking to someone that grew up in a border state reading all the history books the state told us not to read because they’re “embarrassing.” I’m keeping it simple for the foreigners. And hanging them, even if it was just the body made the noose an effective icon. So much so the the KKK took to leaving a noose in a nearby tree as a warning, and they still do it. Anyone who wants to be super literal can go look at Emmett Till’s face.

      • harmsy@lemmy.world
        19·
        10 days ago

        I kinda feel like what they’re going for is a “shoot the rope” thing with that shadow.

        • mosiacmango@lemm.ee
          15·
          10 days ago

          Agreed. It reads as the “shooter” killing a mass murderer whose noose/shadow kills all those it touches.

      • phx@lemmy.ca
        141·
        10 days ago

        Associated with black people… and centuries of executions prior that had nothing to do with color.

        A noose over a tree I could see being more racial - kkk killings etc - but hanging is more of a “common persons execution” historically

        • xorollo@leminal.space
          12·
          10 days ago

          So then why is it in the picture? Wouldn’t say this was a ‘common person’s death’. In fact, it’s the opposite. To me the imagery doesn’t match. And no matter how I agree with the larger sentiment, I’ll never wear anything with a noose on it.

          • phx@lemmy.ca
            3·
            10 days ago

            The shadow of the noose is cast by the rich asshole, not over him… makes sense to me

      • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
        111·
        10 days ago

        It is a normal shadow for this scene. The light source is a street light directly above the shooter.

      • Diddlydee@feddit.ukEnglish
        9·
        10 days ago

        Yeah, it’s not associated with black people outside the US. It’s how serfs or common criminals are dealt with historically.

      • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
        62·
        10 days ago

        That weird shadow looks nothing like a noose to me other than like a vague shape of a straight line meeting a closed shape that isn’t really that round or noose-like.

        That’s extremely vague and wouldn’t fit with the rest of the art; everything else looks like what it is, cars, people, so it the shadow was suppose to depict a noose, why doesn’t it look like one?

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        The grip of oppression is tight as a noose, but when they kick out the chair, heads will hang.

  • swim@slrpnk.net
    24·
    10 days ago

    Despite initial reporting that the words were “deny,” “defend,” and “depose,” police clarified the following day that it was “delay” and not “defend” written on one of the casings.

    • sik0fewl@lemmy.ca
      17·
      10 days ago

      I think it just means that there is a missing bullet (maybe never fired).

      Obviously a reference to Delay, Deny, Defend, a common practice of insurance companies to maximize profit. The excerise is left to the reader to decide what “Depose” means.

      • rational_lib@lemmy.world
        21·
        10 days ago

        Could be a major clue, perhaps this is someone who sued the company and they deposed him, which can be stressful/intimidating for the inexperienced.
        Or this was someone trying to make it seem like it was motivated by claim denial, but botched the phrase.
        Or the police might be misreporting this to catch false confessors.
        Or pretty much anything else.

        • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          10 days ago

          I get the feeling that it was very intentional that depose was written in the casing of the cartridge that was fired.

          Depose can mean to “remove from office suddenly and forcefully” like when a government is over thrown, the leader is deposed.

          In this context, the CEO was deposed by no longer being able to fulfill his role as CEO due to a severe and acute case of death.

          The fact that “delay, deny, depose” is the general policy for insurance companies is the motivation for using that specific term over others. “Delay, deny and depose me? I’ll depose you.” Kind of thing.

          I think it makes a very loud and very clear message.

    • luce [they/she]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      12·
      10 days ago

      “Three fired cartridge cases alongside three unfired cartridges were found at the scene. The words “delay”, “deny”, and “depose” were written on the cases. “Depose” was inscribed on a casing from a round fired into Thompson, while “delay” was marked on an unfired cartridge ejected as the shooter racked the pistol, possibly to clear a jam or intentionally discard the live round.”

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Brian_Thompson

  • ERROR: Earth.exe has crashed@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2712·
    11 days ago

    I mean… not to deny how based this is.

    But you could potentially lose your job and by extension, your health insurance (and any dependents that are on your insurance plan also lose coverage).

    Also cops are just gonna use that as an excuse to do police brutality.

    It’s ultimately your decision, but please consider the potential consequences.

    Stay safe!

    • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      192·
      11 days ago

      I may not have the guts to wear this, but I would absolutely buy it and have it framed in the entrance to my house or somewhere visible.

        • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          74·
          11 days ago

          Not American, so I’m assuming this would be an expensive product for me. Especially considering I might have to import it as well.

          Thus, I likely can’t afford to prove it.

          • InputZero@lemmy.world
            417·
            10 days ago

            Coming out of left field, if you can’t put your money where your mouth is then maybe don’t say anything at all. Or say as much as you can, I don’t mean that at all. I just can’t think about anything else to say today but I still have to do my personal daily protest comment against Reddit. See that Reddit, I won’t stop making shit posts, I’m just making sure you don’t get them.

            You don’t have to do anything to ‘prove it’

            • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
              22·
              10 days ago

              Yeah. People can just say “I love the idea of this but i wouldnt actually do it. Lol”.
              It’s all about the internet clout though.

    • sag@lemm.eeOP
      16·
      11 days ago

      It was today top question on r/legal. Is it legal to wear it? It is but YK

    • SouthEndSunset@lemm.ee
      8·
      11 days ago

      I’m British, there’s a decent chance some bootlicker might slap me, but I could wear this all day.

    • droporain@lemmynsfw.com
      6·
      10 days ago

      Oh buddy like they need this excuse, don’t you know little Jimmy failed his math test and the wife won’t quit nagging?

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
      5·
      10 days ago

      As a non-USian I’m intrigued about your police brutality comment… do they all have job health insurance that pays out every time or is it possible that some of them (or family members) have been shafted by insurance? Forgive my ignorance, but I am foreign.

      • Dupree878@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 days ago

        Most of them have job provided healthcare, and any injury from work is covered

        But the kinds of people who become cops are small dick assholes who want any excuse to flex their false sense of authority

  • samus12345@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    9 days ago

    The shadow looks like it’s supposed to resemble something, but I guess it’s just oddly drawn.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.eeEnglish
    7·
    11 days ago

    I was just talking about this earlier, that someone would make merchandise of this event! Absolutely not surprised given the number of people who have been cheering this whole thing on.

    • zephorah@lemm.ee
      8·
      10 days ago

      It’s clear these words were intended for just this. An inciting, revolutionary logo to be printed and repeated.

      Even Live. Laugh. Love. took off everywhere and that was a ridiculously cringy eyeroll piece of decor, bumper sticker, and tattoo. But it was catchy.

      This guy is playing off of several “catchy” factors well beyond writing it on his brass. He means it to be emblazoned on everything.

      So no, I’m not surprised someone broke out their Cricut and made this. He may have even made his own, given the intentionality here. There’s probably spray paint out there on walls already too.

      It’s like he authored a book or video game scene and then carried out the role of the main themselves. I’d be surprised if this guy wasn’t heavy into screens and books escapism, and writing.