Executive ‘hit lists’ and wanted posters: NYPD warns about threats to executives [Video]

NEW YORK — A New York Police Department bulletin issued Tuesday emphasized the heightened risk environment for health care executives following last week’s brazen killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

Now, there are growing concerns the action could inspire copycats.

Viral posts online have listed the names and salaries of several health insurance executives, multiple “Wanted” signs featuring corporate executives have been posted throughout Manhattan and users on social media continue to celebrate Thompson’s death, according to the bulletin.

The warning signs come as a sea of social media posts indicate that shooting suspect Luigi Mangione might be viewed as a “martyr” who could inspire extremists to action.

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With Mangione’s action having the “capability to inspire a variety of extremists and grievance-driven malicious actors to violence,” the NYPD encouraged companies to increase precautions and security for executives.

Mangione was arrested in Pennsylvania Monday and faces charges in New York …