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Exec’s Homicide Sparks Luigi Memes
… Web Trolls Mock CEO Loss of life
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Demented trolls are poking enjoyable at one of many NYC shooter’s victims this week … saying a company real-estate govt obtained “LUIGI’D” — a reference to alleged UnitedHealthCare CEO killer Luigi Mangione.
Social media scoundrels posted a photograph on X of a lady named Wesley LePatner — senior managing director of Blackstone — who was one in every of 4 individuals fatally shot by Shane Tamura inside a Manhattan skyscraper Monday evening earlier than he took his personal life.
The pic exhibits LePatner in a company setting with the phrase “LUIGI’D” stamped throughout her face in large purple letters, together with a caption that reads, “Wesley LePatner, CEO of Blackstone Actual Property Revenue Belief, has been evicted from the mortal airplane.”
Much more disturbing, the sick put up obtained 1000’s of likes.
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LePatner was in charge of the corporate’s $53 billion actual property funding fund … and you may recall Luigi is accused of fatally taking pictures Brian Thompson — the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, a multibillion-dollar medical insurance firm — in chilly blood in the identical a part of Midtown Manhattan in December. Not lengthy after that taking pictures, posters popped up across the space seeming to focus on different company executives.
As you recognize … police stuffed the streets in New York Metropolis Monday evening after calls of an active shooter in Midtown Manhattan at 345 Park Avenue — which homes tenants like Blackstone, Deutsche Financial institution … and the Nationwide Soccer League, the shooter’s suspected goal.
Investigators say the shooter, Shane Tamura, wrote in his suicide observe that he believed he suffered from CTE … and, he blamed the NFL for it. He deliberate on taking pictures up their workplace, however cops say he could not discover the proper elevator. He shot 5 individuals, killing 4 — together with an off-duty NYPD officer, earlier than taking pictures himself within the chest
After all, Luigi Mangione’s alleged homicide was far more focused … together with his writings later displaying a contempt for the healthcare business. In a single journal entry, he wrote that one of the best plan was to “wack [sic] the CEO on the annual parasitic bean-counter conference.”
Sickos on-line do not care concerning the ideological variations, clearly … they only appear enthusiastic about one other useless govt.