The 26-year-old suspect was hit with four federal charges out of New York in connection with the Dec. 4 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
Damn, this is the first I’ve heard that there might be federal charges. What the actual fuck? Now a single murder on the street can be a federal case? I want off of Mr. Toad’s wild ride.
E: Well, I guess they charge certain murders at the fed level but this seems like one citizen holding a grudge against another. Victim isn’t involved with law enforcement so WTF?
Damn, this is the first I’ve heard that there might be federal charges. What the actual fuck? Now a single murder on the street can be a federal case? I want off of Mr. Toad’s wild ride.
E: Well, I guess they charge certain murders at the fed level but this seems like one citizen holding a grudge against another. Victim isn’t involved with law enforcement so WTF?
My guess is they use the commerce clause to make it federal.
He crossed state lines in the course of executing his plan. It was always going to become federal.
Kyle Rittenhouse didn’t get federal charges. Guess it really matters who you shoot
That piece of shit absolutely deserved federal charges and much more, but the prosecution was always on his side. They sank his case repeatedly.
Oh yeah. Continuing plan over state lines, like a kidnapping.
I stand corrected.
Victim was rich. That’s all the justification it takes.
He’s a threat to the state’s monopoly on violence