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.
Mainstream media playbook 101. When your narrative isn’t taking hold lean on fear mongering.
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 wonder how many Luigis the 2nd trump presidency will create. I hope a lot. Call me whatever you want…
God the police are so pathetically paranoid.
Literally shooting at acorns falling from a tree
“Waaah a dog barked at me” then they shoot the dog
Police “investigate” citizens and it’s fine, but we are targeting cops when we investigate them.
Which one of you has a link to the image file for that free Luigi flyer? Asking for a friend…
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?
I don’t see any reason to limit it to healthcare executives.
Hell Elons mom jumped in line as far as I’m concerned. The spoiled rich are so god damn detached from reality. I never imagined I’d be ok with mass murder but here we are.
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.
Fear from above is quite entertaining. Next up supporters of Brian Thompson seen with halo’s and walking on water.
what a great way to drum up support for more police funding and invasive practices
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.
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
Have you looked around this thread?
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.
That and make it sound like those supporting him are dangerous.
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.
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?
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.
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
