Less than two weeks after UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down on the streets of midtown Manhattan, his alleged assassin Luigi Mangione has been greeted not by universal condemnation for the brazen violence – but rather, a surge of enthusiastic support online for his so-called vigilante justice.
The Center for Internet Security (CIS), a nonprofit focused on cybersecurity that partners with government and law enforcement, released a new threat assessment bulletin warning that online support for the alleged shooter risks encouraging copycat attacks.
“Overwhelming bipartisan support for the attack” across social media “has resulted in several narratives encouraging similar violent activities directed at other healthcare executive teams,” CIS analysts said.
“The narratives supporting Mangione’s targeted attack likely serve to encourage like-minded individuals, particularly as Mangione continues to be viewed by the public as an ‘American hero’ and sympathetic figure,” CIS’ bulletin said.
No one attacked law enforcement for this thought. They are just fear mongering the police so they will want to protect the rich more.
He (Luigi) literally went out of his way to praise law enforcement in his statement. So yeah, this is all just bullshit, and it’s bad for ya.
We did and are mocking them for the amount of attention and resources the murder is getting solely due to the wealth of the target.
Honestly this sounds like a reporter chop job to me. The only discrete mention of threats to law enforcement is protests, fake bomb threats, and Swatting.
They aren’t saying people are going to murder court officials and police.
I haven’t seen anyone encouraging or even so much as hinting that a copycat should target police or courts. Feels like something made up to try to drive a wedge between the bipartisan support by splintering off “back the blue” type of people.
Complete bullshit obviously…
But the fact they’re worried about it says A LOT about how they view themselves compared to a piece of shit responsible for millions of deaths from denied healthcare.
I keep running through the difference between the reaction to this vs elementary school kids dying to gun violence. It’s one CEO and everything in the media has galvanized to unite around a singular message of horrible violence. Hundreds of children have died and nothing changed. It’s fucking infuriating.
Let’s compare:
Osama Bin Ladin/Brian Robert Thompson
Number killed by own hands: 0/0
Number killed through orders to underlings: 3,000/51,000
Reason for killings: religious and geopolitical reasons/profit motive
Cause of death: execution by gunshot/execution by gunshot
Date of trial for killings: N/A / N/A
Date of issue of death sentence for killings: N/A / N/A
Response to killing: celebration by US president on national TV, celebration by commoners and elites / celebration by commoners, condemnation by elite.
Consequence to assassins for extra-judicial slaying: national praise / indicted for 2nd degree murder
Race and class: weird Arab guy in traditional garb / rich white man in a a suit
ACAB
Oh, lol…they think people are only going to target other healthcare CEO’s? That’s fucking adorable.
Hoping our boi Luigi set the stage for a revolution to finally start. Idk what I can do to fight the good fight other than to continue to be loud about all this shit.
At least the more of us are loud the safer each of us are. So free Luigi and may the proles get a little something without society collapsing. Either way it’s definitely a good show…
God, the police are so fucking coddled. “This shit that has nothing to do with police? A threat to police.” Anytbing to direct more funding to these fucking babies.
Mainstream media playbook 101. When your narrative isn’t taking hold lean on fear mongering.
The media don’t know how to deal with people not caring that the CEO of a parasitic company is dead, so now they resort to fear mongering?
Just because people are not showing outpourings of grief for the death of a CEO doesn’t mean people are endorsing violence. Luigi Mangione is in custody and will likely go to prison; being sympathetic to his story does not mean endorsing his behaviour. This is a complex and multifaceted story and people are allowed complex and multifaceted responses.
I mean, remember defund the police?
That movement fully targeted cops.
This one is targeting the ruling class, and cops are worried.
It’s like that moment when you criticize a bad thing (like selfishness) and out of nowhere someone gets offended; they are basically telling on themselves.
That movement fully targeted cops.
I think if youd look into it you’d find its the protestors who were targetted. Not the cops.
I meant that the focus was about the police problem, this time it’s about CEOs yet cops get offended
It would be both sad and pointless if people targeted the owner’s capital defense force thugs (police) and bribed middle managers (judges/politicians).
That would muddy the waters needlessly and further the cause of the owner class of keeping us at each other’s throats.
Our oligarchs whole thing is keeping us hostile towards one another. They don’t care who kills who, kids killing kids, cops killing poor, poor killing cops/judges/politicians, all livestock killing livestock to them, big woop. They only freak out when someone they consider a person is killed, there’s only 1 metric that determines that for them, and even most of their bought politicians don’t qualify on net worth.
In Altoona, Pennsylvania, where Mangione was captured on Monday, local police told ABC News they also faced threats and negative blowback for arresting the suspect, as did the McDonald’s where he was arrested.
CIS assessed it “highly likely that threats will continue to target [law enforcement] and other public offices participating in Mangione’s case.”
This is just sloppy reporting. CIS says cops and other officials will receive more threats, not that they will be in more danger. But it’s 2024 and ABC is a major news outlet that depends on keeping the government and (especially) His Majesty happy to keep their ota broadcast license.
This reeks of propaganda trying to sway the “blue liners” away from support for the coming class war. It makes sense. The “cop feelings > children lives” set are violently stupid and (usually) well armed.
Police “investigate” citizens and it’s fine, but we are targeting cops when we investigate them.
I wonder how many Luigis the 2nd trump presidency will create. I hope a lot. Call me whatever you want…
I don’t see any reason to limit it to healthcare executives.
