New York City Mayor Eric Adams says there is “something going on beneath the surface” among young people following the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in the Big Apple earlier this month. Calling for caution.
“There's something going on beneath the surface with our young people,” Adams told anchor Martha McCallum in an exclusive interview on “The Story.”
Adams is the Ivy League graduate student charged with murder in Thompson's death, Luigi Mangione, and the Wisconsin school shooter who killed two people and injured six others before committing a spontaneous shooting. He specifically mentioned the deceased, 15-year-old Natalie Rapnow. scratch.
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“Look at not only Brian's assassination, but look at what happened on our school grounds. There was a young girl who walked onto our school grounds and took the lives of innocent people,” Adams said. .
“If you look at what's happening on social media, that's the real problem, because young people, we've always rebelled against the government since we were young. But social media and hate, anger. , an increase in suicide rates – an increase in suicidal thoughts, depression.”
Mangione, an Ivy League-educated young professional from a private high school from the Baltimore area, is facing multiple charges in both Pennsylvania and New York in connection with Thompson's ambush shooting death.
Since his arrest, internet sleuths have been examining Mr. Mangione's extensive and documented social media presence, with many users implicating Mr. Thompson, a married father of two from a small town in Iowa, in the killing. He praises the suspected murderer.
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Natalie Rapnow, 15, has been identified as the gunman who opened fire Monday inside a study hall at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, Wisconsin. She killed a teacher and a teenage student and injured six others, authorities said. Responding officers found Lupnow suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She died on the way to the hospital.
Adams previously said “Children are being radicalized to hate America and to hate the country that put them in this position,” he said at a news conference Monday.
The New York mayor elaborated on the idea with McCallum, saying, “If we don't seriously consider it, [what] They lurk in our basements, bathrooms, and bedrooms. If we don't consider it and deal with it seriously, there will be problems. ”
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Fox News' Stephen Sorace, Stepheny Price and Audrey Conklin contributed to this report.
