Alleged gunman faces nine charges including second-degree murder in New York state case
Luigi Mangione is due to appear in Manhattan state court on Monday for the first day of a potentially weeklong proceeding to weigh the legality of evidence gathered during his arrest after the killing of a prominent healthcare executive.
Mangione was apprehended last December in the murder of senior United HealthCare figure Brian Thompson last December. In addition to state-level charges, he faces a Manhattan federal court case.
Thompson’s brutal slaying on the streets of New York city triggered an intense manhunt for the killer, but also sparked an outpouring of anger at the practices of the US for-profit healthcare industry. Since his arrest Mangione has attracted some enthusiastic supporters, both online and at his court appearances.
It’s almost like all the surveillance was never really about solving those crimes.
It is about monitoring political protests and activists. If someone spray painted the words ‘die, Mike, die!’ On a storefront (and the owner’s name was Mike) the police won’t bother looking at the footage. They won’t bother looking at the footage even if said Mike was shot multiple times a few days later.
But spray paint ‘eat the rich’ anywhere? Calling all cars… calling all cars!