Comedian Bill Burr suggested during an interview published Tuesday that the Luigi Mangione murder case involving the killing of a healthcare CEO should prompt healthcare companies to examine their policies.In an interview with Rolling Stone, Burr said, "I mean if you look at all of this stuff, like the response to the Luigi [Mangione] thing.It wasn’t ‘Maybe we need to look at what we’re doing if it makes some crazy person do this.’ [Healthcare executives’] response was to take their faces off the internet and get security." "It’s like, you don’t think you need to examine this?" he continued.
"You’re not the president.You’re just the CEO of a business.
Why do you need this level of security?"UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, a husband and father of two children, was murdered in December 2024.Mangione pleaded guilty in federal court on Aug.
14 to charges connected to Thompson's murder.LUIGI MANGIONE PLEADS GUILTY IN FEDERAL COURT TO STALKING AND KILLING UNITEDHEALTHCARE CEO BRIAN THOMPSONBill Burr distanced himself from the politically-incorrect humor of the past about women, saying that looking inward has been part of his journey as a comedian.(Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty Images)Attorney Rafael Mangual, the Nick Ohnell Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, spoke to Fox News Digital about Burr's comments."The only way to understand the comedian’s comments is as an endorsement of brutal and extrajudicial violence as a legitimate means of expressing one’s frustrations with corporate behavior," he said.
"The fact of the matter is that Brian Thompson was a victim of a cold-blooded murder.Full stop.""Luigi Mangione isn’t a hero, or a martyr," Mangual continued.
"He shot a man in the back for no other reason than that he objected to the business he was in.""Expressing anything other than condemnation of such an act is to open an enormous can of worms that Burr clearly hasn’t contemplated," he added."His remarks reveal that he hasn’t grapple...