It's the Brian Lera Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Later in the show, Tiffany Caban, New York City Councilmember, we invited Councilmember

Caban yesterday with a housing and mental health bill.

She hopes will keep New Yorkers from winding up in the shape that Jordan Neely was in before

encountering Daniel Penny on that F train last year.

Then we learned from Cobon's office that Elon Musk responded to a social media post

Kaban made about the bill and the verdict. Musk argues housing is not the answer to homelessness,

though he may agree with Kaban a little bit about mental health. We'll see what the council

member thinks when she joins us later in the show. Now, we'll get a deep take on the

insurance industry and the reaction to the public glee among a surprising number of people that

has followed the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. Here's a clip from Morning Edition

today where NPR's Odette Yousef, national security correspondent focusing on extremism,

describes why the public reaction to this killing is different from the more common and smaller

expressions of sympathy for acts of political violence she's seen and for what kind of extremist

violence and what it might say about the state of things in our country?

So this killing, you know, seemed to tap into the feeling that seemingly most Americans have had at one time or another

of frustration and helplessness with the health care industry.

What really struck me, though, is that I have typically seen people who commit mass violence or political

violence praised, even venerated as martyrs, in really kind of dark corners of the extremist world,

you know, within online communities that emulate mass shooters, for instance, or in violent white

supremacist spaces. So seeing a much wider and

mainstream public call this suspect a, quote, hero, is troubling. And for extremist analysts that I

spoke to, you know, this really kind of speaks to how Americans have, over time, become more

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