Prosecutors disclosed the indictment Tuesday as they worked to bring Luigi Mangione to a New York court from from a Pennsylvania jail.

Prosecutors disclosed the indictment Tuesday as they worked to bring Luigi Mangione to a New York court from from a Pennsylvania jail.

  • Mango@lemmy.world
    6·
    3 hours ago

    It’s technically terrorism, but so is literally any crime enforcement. You’re supposed to be afraid to harm others because you’ll be harmed back. We shouldn’t be giving a free pass to the rich, especially when they put their crimes in their resume. We don’t need a trial for that.

    • Professorozone@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 hours ago

      “Put crimes in their resumes.” I like that. I intend to steal it and use it as my own. It’s the highest form of flattery. You’re welcome.

      • Mango@lemmy.world
        2·
        23 minutes ago

        😁

        I’m also the guy who coined the phrase “if buying isn’t owning, pirating isn’t stealing” and I was perfectly happy to be unknown and watch it spread until Louis Rossmann, my hero, credited someone else for it and praised them instead of me.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    5·
    3 hours ago

    Because “rich fuck” isn’t a protected class so they can’t charge with hate crime.

    I don’t see how this can stick, there was no intent to cause terror, it was surgically precise. Assassination maybe, if they want to be transparent about who is actually running the US.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 hours ago

      there was no intent to cause terror

      Surely you must see how false this is. 100% of the comments praising this have referenced some form of class-based revolutionary fervor, gleeful that the rich will now quake in their boots.

      A killing meant to manipulate others by fear is terrorism.

    • This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
      12·
      6 hours ago

      The Charleston church shooting, also known as the Charleston church massacre, was an anti-black mass shooting and hate crime that occurred on June 17, 2015, in Charleston, South Carolina. Nine people were killed, and one was injured, during a Bible study at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, the oldest black church in the Southern United States. Among the fatalities was the senior pastor, state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. All ten victims were African Americans.

      That white supremacist was not charged as a terrorist either.

    • intensely_human@lemm.ee
      1·
      2 hours ago

      I mean, if you consciously, deliberately kill a member of a people to instill fear in the rest of that people, you are indeed a terrorist.

      If you are enemy of a group of civilians, you are a terrorist.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
      10·
      8 hours ago

      DA’s and whoever else has their prosecutorial hands on this are always going apeshit with charges. Stealing a Twinkie from the gas station will get you 8 counts of theft-by-taking and, shit, probably terrorism too if they think it’ll either get you to plea to something and / or they think they can make their name with the case and screw you for living.

      They’re supposed to be finding and delivering justice, but it’s always just cruel idiots trying to prove they’re big, important people. Well. Not always but most often.

  • recursive_recursion they/them@lemmy.caEnglish
    24·
    12 hours ago

    To me this looks like:

    Criminalizing the victims (who then emulated Batman) of their own predatory system

    Congrats, the world will now probably view all CEOs as real life supervillains

    Edit:
    I don’t think they realize that this will probably Streisand effect this and everything related to this.

  • subignition@fedia.io
    23·
    13 hours ago

    They’re probably hoping that calling him a terrorist will blunt the public’s support of him?