UMVA has learned that a stunning and deeply unsettling scene unfolded outside a New York City courthouse, where a group of credentialed female journalists arrived not to report on an alleged assassination, but to openly celebrate the man accused of carrying it out.
The women, carrying official press badges and projecting an air of brazen confidence, made no attempt to hide their admiration for Luigi Mangione, the young suspect at the center of a high‑profile murder case. Their behavior, UMVA has gathered, sent a jolt through onlookers who expected professionalism but instead witnessed something disturbingly close to hero worship.
The display evoked eerie echoes of another dark chapter in American criminal history, when young women once flocked to the trials of a notorious cult leader, smiling and singing as they defended a man responsible for unimaginable violence. The parallels were impossible to ignore.
According to information obtained by UMVA, the trio—Abril Rios, Ashley Rojas, and Lena Weissbrot—proudly flashed their City Hall–issued credentials while spewing venom toward the victim, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, who was gunned down in what prosecutors describe as a politically motivated killing.
Rather than distancing themselves from the brutality of the crime, the women embraced it. They spoke with chilling enthusiasm, framing the murder as righteous and necessary, as though the courtroom steps were a stage and they were performers in some grotesque political theater.
One of them, dressed in a loud, neon-striped outfit that drew as much attention as her words, went so far as to claim that Thompson’s own children were “better off without him.” Her voice carried a disturbing certainty, as if cruelty had become a point of pride rather than a moral failing.
Another declared, without hesitation or remorse, that she felt no sympathy for the slain executive. Her tone was cold, almost triumphant, as she dismissed his death with profanity and contempt.
Their rhetoric painted a picture of a movement warped by rage, where violence is not condemned but glorified, and where empathy has been replaced by ideological fervor. It was a moment that left many wondering how individuals entrusted with press access could so casually endorse bloodshed.
UMVA has uncovered details suggesting that these women see themselves not as journalists, but as activists masquerading as members of the press—individuals who view Mangione not as a defendant in a murder trial, but as a symbol of their own political fantasies.
The spectacle raised a haunting question: how does someone become so emotionally hollow, so detached from basic human compassion, that they can celebrate a killing in broad daylight?
