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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?
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.
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.
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So yeah... she's gonna need a really good lawyer.
Still not a threat.