Senator John Fetterman has criticized New York magazine for saying the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was “inevitable.”
The Pennsylvania Democrat criticized the outlet on Saturday in a post on
Thompson, 50, was shot early Wednesday just steps from a Hilton hotel in downtown Manhattan. His attacker remains at large despite a massive manhunt.
“There’s no shortage of s**tty shots about the 2024 election or about this murder,” Fetterman said.
“The public execution of an innocent man and father of two is indefensible, not ‘inevitable.’ Tolerating and encouraging this says more about YOU than about the health insurance situation.’
His comments came after New York published an article titled “The Shooting That Was Inevitable.” Our political system is collapsing. Now it has killed.’
A motive has not yet been released by police, but shell casings found at the scene were engraved with the words “deny,” “defend” and “depose.”
The messages bear similarity to a 2010 book by Jay M Feinman called ‘Delay, Deny, Defend’, which describes ‘why insurance companies don’t pay claims and what you can do about it’.
Senator John Fetterman has criticized New York magazine for saying the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was ‘inevitable’
Thompson, 50, was shot just steps from a Hilton hotel in downtown Manhattan
Thompson’s killing has put the health insurance industry under scrutiny amid speculation that the gunman had a vendetta against his company.
UnitedHealthcare was recently forced to close comments on its social media pages after being flooded with angry responses from patients claiming their medical claims have been denied.
On other corners of the internet, many people have openly cheered Thompson’s death and labeled the killer a vigilante figure.
A UnitedhealthCare post honoring the late executive drew insensitive comments and more than 3,000 “laughing” emoji reactions.
Mayor Eric Adams said Saturday he was closing in on the perpetrator as he revealed police now have a name.
The city leader said it will not be released at this stage as investigators hope to catch the killer off guard.