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filoria@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

Boeing whistleblower John Barnett died by suicide, police investigation concludes

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Boeing whistleblower John Barnett died by suicide, police investigation concludes

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filoria@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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Police released what they say was a suicide note left by Boeing whistleblower John Barnett.
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  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
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    “What about this note that says, ‘If I die, it wasn’t suicide’?”

    “That’s still technically a suicide note.”

    • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      i mean, to be fair, i would’ve done the same fucking thing ngl. Fuck boeing.

  • dkr567 [comrade/them, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    “Yeah Barnett’s head just happened to be in the same direction of couple bullets.” - Boeing

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    Let me guess, he shot himself in the back 6 times?

  • butsbutts@lemmy.ml
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    well thats weird

  • Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works
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    I read the article and I have one outstanding question. Is this the same guy who stated he is not suicidal days before?

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      People contemplating suicide tend to do that. They put on a false front, saying that they’re okay when they really aren’t.

      Couple that with a bad session in front of the appeal judges… and yeah. You can see why he did it.

      A 7-year legal battle to overturn his loss of the lawsuit against Boeing for their retaliation over his whistleblowing… And it was looking like the final appeal, his final chance, was slipping away.

      • ඞmir@lemmy.ml
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        If this is really the case, this should still be considered murder by Boeing

        • chaogomu@kbin.social
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          As evil as Boeing is, you have to give John Barnett his agency. He made that final choice.

          Boeing and an arcane legal system may have driven him to it, but he was the one who made that choice.

  • Mangoholic@lemmy.ml
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    So its either presured into suicide by lawsuit from Boeing or murdered and made to look like suicide. Either way its fucked up.

    • Crikeste@lemm.ee
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      America is a very grim place.

  • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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    move along folks, nothing to see here

  • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
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    I wonder what kind of yacht the police investigators are going to buy with the donations from the representative of the Boeing Corporation.

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      Yacht? They’re getting themselves an Apache. You can’t recklessly gun down minorities suspects with a yacht.

      • Patapon Enjoyer@lemmy.world
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        Not with that attitude

      • Che Banana@beehaw.org
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        APC, however it is marketed to the town as an “A Peace Carrier” to standing ovations

    • retrospectology@lemmy.world
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      They probably don’t actually get much. Fascists kind of instinctively back eachother up.

      • YtA4QCam2A9j7EfTgHrH@infosec.pub
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        Yeah. I was being hyperbolic. They didn’t get anything I’m sure, because cops serve power and even if they didn’t, they are bad at solving crime because they are dipshits. And their function isn’t to solve crime.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    Epstein’d

  • qwertilliopasd@lemmy.world
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    in other news, Charelston PD announces their new MH-139A helicopter

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    Same as most other whistleblowers are die because of suicide, accident or a sudden and strange illness, by system.

  • MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    Just like those people who shoot themselves in the back of cop cars with their hands cuffed behind them.

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    How totally unexpected.

  • SpaceNeuro@lemmy.world
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    “Open and shut case Johnson. Sprinkle some crack on him and let’s get out of here.”

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      • Petter1@lemm.ee
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        How do you upload gifs in lemmy comments? 😮 mine got converted in a pic

        • Riccosuave@lemmy.world
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          You just use the image link format like this:

          ![](your-image-url)

        • ulterno@lemmy.kde.social
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          If yours got converted, then the server you’re using, doesn’t support drag and drop gifs.
          Instead of drag and drop, upload the gif to some other server, that allows such stuff and use that link in the ![alt text here](image-url) format as given by @Riccosuave@lemmy.world.

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    At press time, a spokesperson for Boeing remarked that the company expects this to be the end of this matter if the investigators know what’s good for them.

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