Fox News has found a way to blame migrants for the brazen daylight fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a New York City hotel on Wednesday.
Thompson was killed in what police are calling a “targeted attack,” but Fox News host Harris Faulkner suggested that New York police could have prevented the tragedy if they were not so busy dealing with “migrant criminals” in the city.
“We recently found out in the last day or so that we have 58,000 known criminals who have crossed our border illegally. Not that there would be any connection naturally with this, but it makes the work harder for NYPD because they’re already dealing with rampant crime uptick from those individuals who broke our first law coming here illegally,” Faulkner said.
“They intend to live the life that they had before they had crossed the border, and that was a life of crime,” she added. “I mean, 58,000 people on the streets of Manhattan or in the five boroughs is a lot of people to keep up with when you’re trying to lock down a crime scene that may or may not have anything to do with them, but they’re roaming.”
Faulkner’s guest, Fox News contributor Leo Terrell also suggested that an illegal migrant might be involved in the shooting.
“New York City is a sanctuary city,” Terrell said. “Question mark — this guy had a mask on. Question mark — as far as cooperation that is gonna take place involving this individual. We don’t know his ethnicity. We don’t know his legal status.”
A manhunt is underway for the suspect who police described as a light-skinned man wearing a light brown or cream-colored jacket, black face mask, black-and-white sneakers and carrying a grey colored backpack.
Authorities say the suspect appeared to be lying in wait for Thompson for several minutes. The shooter approached Thompson from behind at 6:44 a.m. while he was walking to Hilton Midtown hotel for a corporate event then shot him at least once in the back and once in the right calf.
The suspect then fled the scene first on foot before getting on a bike.
Correction violent WHITE male. And idiot can see that but not🤣