Attorney General Pam Bondi said in a statement on Tuesday that she had directed federal prosecutors to seek the penalty for the “premeditated, cold-blooded assassination”.

In the press release, Bondi said Mr Thompson’s murder “was an act of political violence” and that it “may have posed grave risk of death to additional persons” nearby.

A lawyer for Mr Mangione called the decision “barbaric”, accused the government of “defending the broken, immoral, and murderous healthcare industry”, and said Mr Mangione was caught in a tug-of-war between state and federal prosecutors.

“While claiming to protect against murder, the federal government moves to commit the pre-meditated, state-sponsored murder of Luigi,” said Karen Friedman Agnifilo in a statement.

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  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world
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    29 days ago

    The killing of a non-political figure due to that person heading a company that regularly rejects insurance claims of sick people is “political violence” in what way? If this is political violence then every killing is.

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    I don’t think there was anything political about it.

    CEO was a bastard who thrived on other people’s suffering. Oh wait maybe there could be a warped political bend to this.

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    Again, if this supposed killer was a danger to other persons at the time - why was the witness we saw in the video left unharmed? Why weren’t the streets cleared immediately? Following the fortunate death of that POS, officers said that there was no threat to anyone else in the area.

    Make a martyr. You stupid fucks. Others will come for you too then when the time comes.

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    Whether it was Luigi or someone else that shot him, from the video it didn’t seem like anyone else was in danger.

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    I hope the defense leans into this, as well as the claims of guilt before trial, as evidence of bias. Would they be doing the same if a white person allegedly shot a migrant? Or a Christian allegedly shot a Muslim?