Eric Adams says the NYPD has a name but are withholding it to deny him an advantage…? www.reuters.com/world/us/nyc... - ThreadSky

jphillll.bsky.social • 139 days ago

Eric Adams says the NYPD has a name but are withholding it to deny him an advantage…?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/nyc-mayor-says-suspect-identified-unitedhealth-executives-murder-ny-post-reports-2024-12-07/

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patientadvocacy.bsky.social•139 days ago

Law & Order: NYPD WTF

suzinott.bsky.social•138 days ago

uzmab.bsky.social•139 days ago

What??? How is that an advantage?? Did the suspect forget his name??

votecnp.bsky.social•139 days ago

Yes, so clever to not release that you know who he is 🤣

jerwood.dev•139 days ago

Hunter DeButts.

suhnih.kawaii.social•138 days ago

HAHAHAHAHAHA

kategodart.bsky.social•138 days ago

it's I. P. Freely

clarknt67.bsky.social•139 days ago

I really doubt it.

stusalad.bsky.social•139 days ago

"We're about to capture him, but if he knows we're about to capture him, he'll get away"

lol okay

solidarity5ever.bsky.social•139 days ago

Ah yes, famously, manhunts are most successful when you can't alert the people who know the suspect that they're they know the suspect. Manhunts work best when you can't get anonymous tips.

edwoodk.bsky.social•139 days ago

Yeah. And my girlfriend, who is super hot, but lives in Canada.

glenny-grothman.bsky.social•138 days ago

His name is Spartacus!

anarchyandsage.bsky.social•138 days ago

Eric Adams is hardly credible.

lunaticsandwich.bsky.social•139 days ago

Dear Mayor Adams:

mikeynog.bsky.social•138 days ago

brockmeyer.bsky.social•138 days ago

Ah yes. We don't want him to know we know his name, so we're announcing we know his name. Big brain shit.

foxford.bsky.social•139 days ago

Seems 🐂 💩-ish to me…

thatiscalledbrian.bsky.social•139 days ago

Right now everyone's focused on the health insurance industry but this is also a great time to have a talk about the effectiveness of policing, because NYPD are under enormous pressure to actually solve a crime for once because the victim was high-status and it doesn't look like they're up to it.

badjohnbrown.bsky.social•139 days ago

Pretty sure the killer knows the killer's name. It's not going to help him to know. It would help the police get tips and catch the person. This sounds like Adams just making shit up.

yaboiisaac.bsky.social•139 days ago

If he knows who he is, and they know who he is, then he knows that they're onto him whether they reveal his name publicly or not. I guess maybe the idea is that if they don't reveal the name, the shooter might think they could be wrong?

yaboiisaac.bsky.social•139 days ago

But if I were the shooter, I would take the police at face value. I wouldn't bet on them being wrong.

mithos343.bsky.social•139 days ago

He's definitely lying right

robertlong4man.bsky.social•139 days ago

It sounds like he's talking about Spider-Man

patmac.bsky.social•139 days ago

“yeah i know who batman is, let him continue to believe he can hide behind the mask”

danvshea.bsky.social•139 days ago

NYPD has a girlfriend but you wouldn't know her bc she lives in Canada.

moomoof.bsky.social•138 days ago

RUMPLESTILSKIN!!!!

sadhorseprogram.bsky.social•139 days ago

Lol fuckin' Law & Order SVU-ass excuse

wintrymix.bsky.social•139 days ago

How does saying “we know his name” preserve any theoretical advantage that releasing that name would lose? I mean presumably HE ALREADY KNOWS HIS OWN NAME JFC

soapachu.bsky.social•139 days ago

Being *extremely* generous, I'm assuming they mean "We don't want him to know we're on to him". But... It could just be amazing stupidity.

wintrymix.bsky.social•138 days ago

Right, I think that IS what they mean, but….how exactly does saying “we’ve figured out his name” keep him from knowing that they’ve figured out his name?

outofcleverhandles.bsky.social•138 days ago

Lmao Eric Adams could fuck up a wet dream

xyxox.bsky.social•139 days ago

Because, in reality, they THINK they know his name and know releasing it now could result in another Richard Jewell outcome.

dubrie.bsky.social•138 days ago

Adams knows the shooter is sitting around waiting for the Google Alert on his own same so he doesn't want to trigger that. Or something.

truelyesoteric.bsky.social•138 days ago

Do you think the guy knows he shot Brian?

wintrymix.bsky.social•138 days ago

You get it

cstarks.bsky.social•138 days ago

The name belongs to one of the guys in the lookalike contest. He just doesn't know it yet

regarama.bsky.social•139 days ago

This only makes sense if they have a "suspect" who doesn't know he's a suspect

leighchevaux.bsky.social•139 days ago

Can they even hear themselves?

chanda.bsky.social•139 days ago

This is also my question lol

sendai.bsky.social•139 days ago

Maybe they think he’s just chillin’ at home because that’s what they do after they’ve shot someone.

soapachu.bsky.social•139 days ago

Given the big smile he wore right before, I could actually believe this

aesonique.bsky.social•138 days ago

Maybe they should stake out bottle shops in case he goes for a beer run, in that case.

stutzbob.bsky.social•138 days ago

Ah yes, because if you don't announce his name, the shooter won't know they're looking for him. Pretty good brain you've got there, mayor.

loganrevolvo.bsky.social•139 days ago

I thought Eric Adam’s was going to jail for making a deal with Turkey?

mnemonicer.bsky.social•139 days ago

No, he's switching to the GOP and angling for a presidential pardon.

loganrevolvo.bsky.social•139 days ago

😮

mnemonicer.bsky.social•139 days ago

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/06/new-york-eric-adams-republican-party-00192988

loganrevolvo.bsky.social•139 days ago

Bro Andrew Yang was right. This guy is a corrupt slime ball. He’ll do anything to stay in power.

briangoofingoff.bsky.social•138 days ago

He already IS a Republican

publicstealth.bsky.social•139 days ago

The guy is still free. Pretty safe to say he already has the upper hand.

donquixote66.bsky.social•138 days ago

Nope. Mind games.

shenanigans.bsky.social•139 days ago

Eric Adams is the funniest person who could be in charge of this

lddstyx.bsky.social•138 days ago

The only weird explanation for an advantage I could come up with is that they don't want the people near him alerted because NYPD thinks that the people would try to help him..?

isabellemain.bsky.social•139 days ago

Somehow I'm not shocked that Adams can't even muster up a coherent bluff. Saying this would be the same as saying the name if they had one to the assassin by his own logic.

How is it that the most brainrotted blights on society manage to always fail upward into powerful positions

xyxox.bsky.social•139 days ago

Jason Bourne. That's the name I use now and will moving forward.

lakers-lover.bsky.social•138 days ago

Eric Adams is a fucking liar tho?

mcirwin47.bsky.social•139 days ago

“Based on details we’ve uncovered in our investigation, including hostel records, we believe his name is Butts. Seymour Butts.”

zogmam1.bsky.social•139 days ago

I heard it was I.C. Weiner?

xuelder.neocities.org•138 days ago

It's looking more and more like Dee Z. Knutz has struck again.

zogmam1.bsky.social•138 days ago

I thought he changed his name to Ligma Balz?

omnimon.bsky.social•139 days ago

That last sentence... this is the maddest Adams has ever been. lmao

zephyrncc1701.bsky.social•139 days ago

How could they not know who he is?
He exposed his face!

colingodsey.com•139 days ago

The hell kind of logic is that.

silvered.bsky.social•139 days ago

He used fake IDs, this isn't anything

cargoweasel.com•139 days ago

His name was Robert Paulson.

kimmylea.bsky.social•139 days ago

They don't know at all, do they

kimmylea.bsky.social•139 days ago

In case the suspect didn't already know they were looking for him just from the fact he performed a high profile assassination with heaps of media coverage and photos released

kimmylea.bsky.social•139 days ago

"Let him continue to believe he can continue hiding behind a mask", he's probably already going about maskless, he would draw more suspicious if he kept wearing a mask

plusran.bsky.social•138 days ago

"i do too have a girlfriend but you wouldn't know her coz she doesn't go here"

ejmaron.bsky.social•139 days ago

Doesn't want to embarrass the guy just in case Adams has to be his waiter at the table of success

wearegoingback.bsky.social•139 days ago

Eric Adams is a cancer on anything he gets involved with

theprestige.bsky.social•139 days ago

Does Adams know the shooter knows his own name??

rizzabdicated.bsky.social•139 days ago

I think this is at least partially to maximize the number of people who are a little afraid that they might be misidentified as the guy, and thus at the very least have a little bit of a chilling effect re: so much dunking & celebrating. If dudes shush, the ratio is only 85% approval instead of 90%

trash.on.computer•139 days ago

they're bluffing to save face. if they truly were trying to withhold info, they wouldn't have mentioned this at all. this is literal child behavior. "i know the answer but im not gonna tell you! teehee!"

mahoganyvince.bsky.social•138 days ago

Gotta make sure the shooter doesn’t know that the police are looking for him, at this time the shooter has no reason to believe that the police want to find him

rotcityriot.bsky.social•138 days ago

jphillll.bsky.social•139 days ago

Also interesting that Reuters end the article on this note.

lunaticsandwich.bsky.social•139 days ago

Both sides!

shampoochan13.bsky.social•139 days ago

Look they are good really/s

frambley1.bsky.social•139 days ago

Provide benefits? We pay hundreds per month for coverage, they don't 'provide benefits' to us.

ballerinax.bsky.social•139 days ago

They skipped the part about poorer outcomes though.
😉

jc-allen.bsky.social•139 days ago

Anyone who has had to deal with an insurance company already knows that part.

acefromouterspace.bsky.social•139 days ago

How is Eric Addams still fucking in charge???

graveneworld.bsky.social•138 days ago

Because merica

misgivings.bsky.social•139 days ago

Omg

vivekster.bsky.social•138 days ago

He really had to get a dig in about masks when they have a photo of the shooter without one.

dramypsyd.rmh-therapy.com•138 days ago

“If he knows we’ve got him, he has an advantage. Which is why we are announcing that we’ve got him but not saying who he is.”

marimakinami.bsky.social•139 days ago

are the NYPD fucking stupid? yes, yes they are

jphillll.bsky.social•139 days ago

And dishonest lol. I would bet they or even more likely Adams are making this up. Putting out the name obviously would help catch him

barelybreathing.bsky.social•139 days ago

That and if they're withholding it to not give the killer an upper hand, wouldn't stating they have a name basically be the same thing? Seems like a bluff to me, but what do I know? 🤷‍♀️

clarknt67.bsky.social•139 days ago

Yeah. Pretty much. Alert him you’re close but don’t enlist help in finding him.