Former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz continued his appearances on television and on social media this week to appear supportive of the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
In a post uploaded to her Instagram page Tuesday morning, Lorenz shared a clip on TikTok depicting the shooting, as well as the location where it happened.
The clip, originally posted by TikTok user @lolaith, depicts the “UnitedHealthcare CEO’s $$$ Tour,” with the user walking past the Midtown Hilton hotel in Manhattan where Thompson was shot, adding the caption, “Where the magic happened.”
Journalist Taylor Lorenz raised eyebrows with her reaction to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for TheRetaility.com)
The satirical video included footage of the café where one of the witnesses to the shooting “drank her coffee,” a shot from “the cameras that caught the whole thing!” — namely, the video of Thompson's murder — and a video near Central Park, which the user captioned, “Escape through Central Park.”
The clip appears to be one of many popular posts highlighting Thompson's murder.
In addition to the TikTok post, Lorenz shared a variety of other satirical posts on social media about the shooting — some of which noted the attractiveness and poignancy of the murder suspect. Luigi Mangione.
Police arrested Mangione in Pennsylvania on Monday and charged him in connection with Thompson's killing. He was found in possession of four fake ID cards, a gun and silencer similar to those used in the shooting, and a statement condemning the health insurance industry.
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An image of UnitedHealthcare executive killer, Luigi Mangione, appears during a CNN segment.
Lorenz also wrote about Thompson's killer becoming a “national hero” in the film Subarticle Published on Monday.
Throughout the article, the journalist notes how the killer has “become a star,” and how people are “tattooing the man’s face, fan cameras are filming, and the memes are flowing.”
She also shared: “Everyone I spoke to said they have completely lost faith in the two-party system and the media, which they feel is beholden to corporate interests. They are rallying around the shooter because he seems like the only right guy.” Now ready to do Something “Turn it around.”
Journalist Piers Morgan He called Lorenz's apparent sympathy for the shooter during an episode of “Piers Morgan Uncensored” that aired Monday night. During the program, Lorenz admitted she felt “joyed” by Thompson's death.
When a shocked Morgan confronted her, saying that Thompson was a “husband and father,” Lorenz replied, “And so were the tens of thousands of Americans he killed! And so were the tens of thousands of Americans, innocent Americans, who died because of it.” Greedy health insurance managers like this push a policy of denying care to the most vulnerable people.”
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Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was shot to death in midtown Manhattan last week. (Image source: Businesswire | NYPD Crimestoppers)
She continued: “And I am part of millions of Americans who have watched the people I care about suffer, and in some cases die, due to lack of health care.”
During the segment, Lorenz made it clear that she doesn't think every healthcare executive should be killed. She later confirmed that she retracted what she said about feeling happy about the murder, and said that it was a wrong word.
Morgan's question came in light of Lorenz's reaction to news of the CEO's murder last week, when she shared news that another health care company was refusing to cover anesthesia for the duration of some surgeries.
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In another post from that week, the journalist appeared to defend the sentiments of those who want people like Thompson dead. “People have a very justified hatred toward insurance CEOs because these CEOs are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering,” she wrote. “As someone who is against death and suffering, I think it's a good idea to call out this broken system and the people in power who enable it.”
Fox News Digital's Christina Coulter and Hannah Banrick contributed to this report.
