Colorado law enforcement on alert for ‘possible threats’ after CEO killing [Video]

DENVER — Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old man accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is being applauded by many on social media for his alleged actions.

A quick scroll on X, formerly known as Twitter, found users calling Mangione an “American hero” and “successful assassin.”

The volume of such posts, along with the high-profile case out of New York, spurred the Colorado Information Analysis Center (CIAC) to issue a situational awareness bulletin with a warning for “possible threats” to individuals in health care.

“We put that together for Colorado law enforcement partners and our hospital partners to make sure that they knew that there’s a heightened sensitivity, and kind of a heightened threat environment based on what we’re seeing, particularly in social media, you know, concerning threats to health care executives and health care related executives,” said Kevin Klein, director of the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. “We just want people to be aware of the heightened threat environment.”

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