Former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz continued to show support for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in high-profile TV appearances and on social media this week.
In a post uploaded to her instagram page On Tuesday morning, Lorenz shared a TikTok clip romanticizing the shooting and the location where it happened.
The clip, originally posted by TikTok user @lolaith, depicts the “UnitedHealthcare CEO's Asia Tour,” in which the user strolls in front of the Midtown Manhattan Hilton Hotel where Mr. Thompson was shot and is shown “magic. He added the caption, “Where it happened.” . ”
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Journalist Taylor Lorenz raised eyebrows with her reaction to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images, TheRetaility.com)
The satirical video included shots of a cafe where one of the witnesses to the shooting “went to get a coffee” and shots of “a camera that captured the whole thing.” A video of Thompson's murder and a video of nearby Central Park that a user captioned, “Escape through Central Park.”
The clip appeared to be one of many trending posts making light of Thompson's murder.
In addition to sharing the TikTok, Lorenz shared a variety of other tongue-in-cheek social media posts about the shooting, including one that referenced murder suspect Luigi Mangione's appeal and appeal as an influencer. there were.
Police arrested Mangione in Pennsylvania on Monday and charged him in connection with Thompson's murder. Four fake identification documents, a gun and silencer similar to the one used in the shooting, and a manifesto criticizing the health insurance industry were found on his person.
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A photo of Luigi Mangione, the alleged killer of United Healthcare CEO, appears on CNN.
Lorenz also writes about how Thompson's killer became a “national hero.” Substack Articles She published it on Monday.
Throughout the article, the journalist pointed out how the killer “became a star” and how people are “getting tattoos of the guy's face, making fancams, and the memes are circulating.” .
She added: “Everyone I talked to said they had completely lost faith in the two-party system and in the media. They felt tied down by corporate interests. We're rallying around it because it seems like the shooter is the only one who is right.''I want to do it now. something about it. “
Journalist Piers Morgan called out Lorenz's apparent sympathy for the gunman on Monday night's episode of “Piers Morgan Uncensored.” During the show, Lorenz admitted she felt “joy” over Thompson's death.
When a shocked Morgan confronts her about Thompson being a “husband and father,” Lorenz replies, “So are the tens of thousands of Americans he murdered! Tens of thousands of Americans. So do innocent Americans. Greedy health care executives like this one promote policies that deny care to the most vulnerable.”
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UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed in midtown Manhattan last week. (Photo Credit: Businesswire | NYPD Crimestoppers)
She continued, “And I am one of the millions of Americans who have watched the people I care about suffer and, in some cases, die due to lack of medical care.”
In this segment, Lorenz made it clear that he does not believe all medical executives should be killed. She later recanted her statement that she took pleasure in the murder, stressing that it was the wrong word.
Morgan's question comes in response to Lorenz's reaction to last week's news of the CEO's murder, in which she said another health care company is refusing to pay for anesthesia for the entire duration of some surgeries. Shared.
“And people are wondering why we want these executives dead,” she captioned Blue Sky's post.
In another post that week, the journalist appeared to defend the sentiments of those who want people like Thompson dead. She said, “People's hatred of insurance company CEOs is very justified because they are responsible for untold amounts of death and suffering.'' As someone who opposes death and suffering, I think it's good to condemn this broken system and those in power.” Please enable it. ”
Fox News Digital’s Christina Coulter and Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.
