Luigi Mangione, who is accused of gunning down a top insurance company executive on a New York City street, has inspired others to embrace violence, including the gunman behind last month’s deadly attack on the NFL headquarters in Manhattan, federal prosecutors contend in a new court filing.

Mangione, the prosecutors argued in Wednesday’s filing, poses a threat to the public because he is actively seeking to influence others to follow in his footsteps.

“Simply put, the defendant hoped to normalize the use of violence to achieve ideological or political objectives,” they said in the document. “Since the murder, certain quarters of the public — who openly identify as acolytes of the defendant — have increasingly begun to view violence as an acceptable, or even necessary, substitute for rea

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