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As someone else said, sounds like a prediction, not a threat. To arrest a mother, who doesn't own a weapon and has no criminal record, it's insane to use that as justification for incarceration.
How do those boots taste?
It's usually a bad idea to outright dismiss a perceived terroristic threat. While it might be a prediction and not a threat, that's for the courts to decide, not the cops.
If someone referenced a very recent assassination and told me I was next, I would take that as a credible threat and call the cops.
If I told you I was going to shoot you, would you have any way to immediately validate that threat? Do you know if I own a gun? Can you find out in a reasonable time to defend yourself if I was being serious with such a threat? Whether or not she can carry out the threat is irrelevant to the threat being made.
Congratulations on falling for the corpo propaganda and thinking that we should be fighting amongst ourselves.
That's not what was said
I didn't say it was.
Regarding corporations promoting infighting: I'm defending the person who challenged the corporation. You're defending the corporation. Jesus Christ dude
lmfao what? How do you think I'm defending a corporation? By explaining how threats work? Are you really that desperate to find a boogeyman that you'll cannibalize your own team to get there? This lady made a threat, no matter how badly you may want to pretend otherwise. You may or may not think it's wrong for her to have done so, but if you disagree that she did it, then you're being willfully ignorant.
If you said "I'm gonna be the cause of you being next", that's a threat. "You're next" is not a threat. Also, next to what? Any good lawyer is gonna have a field day with this.
Contextually, it 100% is a threat. She preceded "You people are next" with the same message left behind by Mangione at the scene of the murder, a recent event that everybody involved in the conversation was aware of. Sure, if that statement existed in a vacuum, it'd be an open-and-shut case, but it was part of a larger conversation.
Also:
So yeah... she's gonna need a really good lawyer.
Still not a threat.