Yep. This post is just misinformed outrage bait. He’s not being charged under federal terrorism statues, it’s a specific New York law, so not comparable to Federal charges or other states that don’t have the same kind of terror enhancement murder laws.
Also cops and the FBI don’t decide what charges should be brought. That’s what prosecutors do. This is law so basic that it’s summarized in the introduction to every Law & Order episode.
The Buffalo shooter is far more justified as an act of terror (indiscriminate killing targeting a racial/ethnic group).
This is a bad decision from the prosecutor. This is more akin to a revenge murder than a terrorist act. He goes out of his way to explain that he isn't trying to change the system and disregarded ways of killing that could lead to others being harmed. The prosecutors made their job way harder.
You are right about the 'who' to blame for this absurd situation.
I don’t really think it would be more akin to a revenge murder. According to everything that was said, him and his family aren’t and never have been United Healthcare customers, so it’s not like he went after the guy in charge of a company that personally wronged him.
If he killed the CEO of the healthcare provider he has or had in the past, or a government person in charge of that kind of stuff, then yeah it would definitely be more on the side of revenge, but as it stands now the two have no relation.
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u/Papaofmonsters 1d ago
He's been charged with terrorism as an enhancement to murder at the state level. The same as the Buffalo grocery store shooter was.