“Our system is violent… but in normal, healthy democracies, you don’t generally see people celebrating this kind of violence,” Lorenz told Fox News Digital.
Media Ethicists Weigh In
Jeffrey McCall, a media studies professor at DePauw University, criticized CNN for crossing ethical boundaries.
“Allowing Lorenz to drone on about [Mangione] being a ‘morally good man’ is quite another,” McCall said. “Functioning civilizations have to be able to settle things through debate, and to suggest that Mangione was just taking on the system is morally vacuous and disturbing.”
Legal Proceedings and Federal Charges
Brian Thompson, 50, was a husband and father of two from Minnesota. Following the attack, Attorney General Pam Bondi instructed federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty.
Mangione faces both state and federal charges, including murder “in furtherance of an act of terrorism.” He has pleaded not guilty at the state level, with federal proceedings still pending.
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