Authorities say she echoed words connected to the murder when she allegedly said "delay, deny, depose, you people are next".

Summary

Briana Boston, 42, was charged with threatening a health insurance company after repeating words linked to the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

During a recorded call with Blue Cross Blue Shield about a denied claim, Boston said, “Delay, deny, depose, you people are next,” echoing phrases engraved on bullet casings at Thompson’s murder scene.

Authorities allege she exploited the CEO’s homicide to make the threat.

Boston, a mother of three with no prior criminal record, was arrested and held on $100,000 bail amidst warnings of potential copycat incidents targeting healthcare executives.

  • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    It doesn’t matter if she’s the one doing the killing, doesn’t matter if it was “serious”, they used the threat of violence.

    It literally does matter legally, which is what’s being discussed surrounding her arrest, by law enforcement, and her bail being set by a Justice in a court of law.

    Please, before continuing further, do some reading on “true threat,” which is the legal requirement.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution-conan/amendment-1/true-threats

    https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/true-threats/

    • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 minutes ago

      Before you continue to bitch about “true threat”…

      you should probably go back and read the article again. This isn’t a 1A issue. She was not somehow prevented from her speech (that is the threat,) and was quite successful in delivering that speech.

      Boston is being charged under Florida law. specifically statute836.10.2b which makes it illegal to:

      (2) It is unlawful for any person to send, post, or transmit, or procure the sending, posting, or transmission of, a writing or other record, including an electronic record, in any manner in which it may be viewed by another person, when in such writing or record the person makes a threat to:

      (a) Kill or to do bodily harm to another person; or
      (b) Conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism.

      Again, her first amendment rights were never violated.

      another statute that may be of significance here is 836.5, which makes it illegal to issue a threat for the purpose of extorting money (or other gains).