After Brian Thompson was gunned down in midtown Manhattan earlier this month, it didn’t take long for too many Americans to begin sympathizing with his alleged killer.
Not only was Thompson the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, which fueled public backlash against the insurance industry, but the suspected shooter has become something of a folk here — if not a sex symbol — to some.
And even though radio host Charlamagne Tha God often aligns with leftist causes and politicians, he chose to speak out against those gleefully reacting to Thompson’s death.
As the Daily Caller reported:
“I just don’t understand why everybody making so light of the UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson getting killed … let’s even forget what he is, right, as a United Healthcare CEO,” Charlamagne said. “All I see is a father walking in New York City to go to his job and he got gunned down.”
Co-host DJ Envy chimed in to note that Thompson “doesn’t own the company” and was “hired to do a job.”
“I don’t understand why people are celebrating him being killed because at the end of the day, like I said yesterday, he’s dead. His kids don’t got no father. That 26-year-old Luigi