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.”

  • @ieatpwns
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    Hmmm idk, I don’t feel terrorized

  • @[email protected]
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    Good! We need to VIOLENTLY PROTECT the People who kill HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of AMERICANS (INCLUDING Children) a year!

  • @[email protected]
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    118 hours ago

    Terrorism = inciting mass terror through your actions

    The only terror incited here is toward the ceos which are the exact opposite of the masses.

    I hope he gets a fair trial and the prosecutors get told by the judge to eat sand for bringing in meaningless charges.

    • @Mango
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      There’s aren’t enough CEOs for mass terror.

    • @Madison420
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      It always is to someone, it’s usually just a matter of perspective.

      • @[email protected]
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        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.

          • @[email protected]
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            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.

  • @PunnyName
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    So if one or more CEO killing happens every day of a calendar year, will we stop giving a shit, like we do with school shootings?

    Inquiring minds want to know.

    • @mx_smith
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      We might actually get some gun reform

    • @EmpathicVagrant
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      Aren’t we at like 3 mass shootings per day nationwide? It’s not a problem when it’s the masses killing each other. Only when the owning class is hurt.

    • @Late2TheParty
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      That’s an interesting theory. I believe it needs vigorous testing.

  • @[email protected]
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    5618 hours ago

    Killing Thousands by refusing to pay for life saving medical procedures you can and are obligated to pay for: not terrorism

    Popping the dude’s skull who did that with a $5 plastic gun: Terrorism

    • @x00z
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      Sounds like stuff Russia and the middle east makes up to execute the good guys.

      • @[email protected]
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        America: does the thing America always does

        Americans: this is literally like the foreigners

        • @x00z
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          014 hours ago

          I’m not American.

  • @Rade0nfighter
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    4618 hours ago

    It’s sad, remember when terrorism meant flying a 747 into a sky scraper?

    Nowadays whenever I see it in the headlines I just assume someone pissed off the wrong cop.

  • @ChonkyOwlbear
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    It would be supremely ironic if Mangione goes free because the prosecution can’t prove the terrorism part of the charge.

  • @vvvvv
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    Man they really are going to fuck him raw and with no lube, aren’t they?

    • shameless
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      Whatever it takes to try and stop the poor’s from fighting back