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.
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…
Radicalization is required as an existential evolution.
Shooting up courts and cops would accomplish very little. They’re, well, made for that kind of opposition. The reason Mangione’s attack has been so high-profile was because he picked a high-profile target that is NOT made for that kind of opposition. If he’d killed a cop or a judge, it’d’ve maybe caught an eye or two on the national news before fading away, and accomplished nothing besides. Anyone hauling off and killing a cop or a judge as an attempted copycat is just wasting their time, and their lives most like.
Just a bloodless observation, of course.
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.
This is it. Do not do class war. The rich want you to fight amongst yourselves
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Oh come off it already.
Yeah we all agree shooting people is wrong.
But just about everyone in the general public more or less agrees Thompson had it coming. We’ve all dealt with scummy insurance companies.
Playing up the threat at this point seems like an obvious psyop. And it’s not even being done well.That I’ve seen, nobody, anywhere, at all, has suggested targeting police or courts. This has been solely framed as a class war between the rank and file citizens of the nation and a very small number (10-25) of CEOs whose companies destroy lives every day. There is no anger with cops or the courts.
lol, your last sentence is right off the cliff.
I think they mean germane to this killing
I mean in regards to this situation. There is anger with cops, none of it has to do with health care. Two completely separate issues. Thus, to suggest that people like Luigi Mangione or copycats are likely to hurt cops or courts is ridiculous
Fair point
No one attacked law enforcement for this thought. They are just fear mongering the police so they will want to protect the rich more.
If cops start acting like bodyguards for rich people, they will for the next one.
you act like they haven’t for decades
No, i mean like literally bodyguarding, not just doing what they’re told.
Start?
That and make it sound like those supporting him are dangerous.
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.
I’d say “pissed at” more than “mocking”.
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.
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.
Tells you a lot about why some departments won’t accept cops over a certain IQ. You don’t want your enforcers questioning who they should be working for. You want easily manipulable peons.
the police have a training traveling school called Killology and refer to themselves as “killologist.”
Fucking weirdos that protect couch humpers.
the best part is when the police training material prominently features quotes from adolf hitler
Sitting here thinking I thought they had branded it some bullshit like ‘warrior training’ to make it sound good…
Police “investigate” citizens and it’s fine, but we are targeting cops when we investigate them.
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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.
Which one of you has a link to the image file for that free Luigi flyer? Asking for a friend…
God the police are so pathetically paranoid.
You know, if they stopped doing shady shit and unjustifiably killing people they wouldn’t have to be. Pretty simple stuff. If they took protection and serve to heart people would truly appreciate them and they would get the attention they desire.
Protect and serve is puffery.
Like the Declaration of Independance.
Sounds great, has no impact in legal system.
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I’ve long said that police should be licensed to enforce the law the same way as doctors and nurses have to be licensed to provide medical care. They should have to go to school for 2+ years (usually +, 2 for rural / hard to staff areas), sit for board exams, and have to defend their license to that board if they’re caught getting up to no good (including improper record keeping). They should be encouraged to pay for malpractice insurance to hire a lawyer to defend that license in case of frivolous / wrongful challenges to their license, but if those reports keep happening (like if they’re toeing the line too closely), that insurance will get progressively too expensive to keep them afloat and push them out of practice. Sometimes even medical professionals forget that the boards aren’t there to serve us, they’re to protect the public from us, and I feel like the police could really benefit from a similar licensing body.
Literally shooting at acorns falling from a tree
“Waaah a dog barked at me” then they shoot the dog
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Haven’t judges in general been extremely gentle with prosecutions involving Trump because of inordinate numbers of threats made to judges? And yet there’s no effort made to stop it? And somehow, this represents an existential threat to the courts?
Is Hans finally figuring out that he might be the baddie…?
Not if they think people will target police and courts, rather than other CEOs. It sounds like they’re missing the point.
CIS assessed it “highly likely that threats will continue to target [law enforcement] and other public offices participating in Mangione’s case.”
Translation: South Park they’re coming right for us, FIRE
It worked for Rittenhouse 🫥
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.
Gotta give it to corpo news and pigs: They got class conscience.
Cops think they’re rich now? Or that their masters will do anything other than use them as grunts in the class war? Cops are working class just like most people, they’re just class traitors.
Class war has been happening for centuries, just for the last 70 years the poor have been idle or ignoring it while the rich kept advancing forward.
