Liberal academics appeared to celebrate the murder of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson on social media and shared posts defending the murder suspect.
A University of Pennsylvania professor made some of her social media accounts private and appeared to take down her TikTok account after going viral for appearing to celebrate that the suspected killer of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson was a graduate of the Ivy League school.
Luigi Mangione, 26, is accused of executing the former insurance executive on a New York City sidewalk last week. He was taken into custody on Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
He is wanted in New York for charges including Murder in the Second Degree, Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree and Criminal Possession of a Forged Instrument in the Second Degree.
Since Thompson’s murder last week, social media has been flooded with posts celebrating or mocking Thompson’s killing as justified because of anger people feel about their health insurance claims being denied.
After Mangione was taken into custody as a person of interest on Monday, UPenn professor Julia Alekseyeva appeared to share several social media posts fawning over the murder suspect.
In one TikTok, Alekseyeva, who posts under the name, « The Soviette », smiles while playing the song, « Do You Hear the People Sing? » from the famous musical Les Miserables.
The text on screen reads, « Have never been prouder to be a professor at the University of Pennsylvania », she wrote, replacing the « E » in Pennsylvania with the number 3.
