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Luigi Mangione charged with killing UnitedHealthcare CEO as an act of terrorism (www.msn.com)
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The man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare's CEO has been charged with murder as an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Tuesday as they worked to bring him to a New York court from a Pennsylvania jail.

Luigi Mangione already was charged with murder in the Dec. 4 killing of Brian Thompson, but the terror allegation is new.

Under New York law, such a charge can be brought when an alleged crime is “intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policies of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion and affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping.”

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[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It always is to someone, it's usually just a matter of perspective.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The only people terrorized by this are health insurance CEOs, and they deserve to be terrorized considering how many people their rapacious, brutal profiteering have killed or crippled, both in a medical and financial sense.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not just health insurance CEOs: the capitalist class is terrified.

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 2 points 4 days ago

One: Peter Thiel is a horrible person and I hope Saint Luigi visits him.

Two: They could chose to change their behavior and be much safer. Stop profiting from exploitation and suffering. You don't even have to go all the way to being a "good person". No one's going to assassinate the guy who quietly lives in a 3BR apartment and spends his afternoons at the museum, even if he's living off high interest savings accounts.