Summary
Sam Beard, organizer of Luigi Mangione’s legal defense fund, claims the dramatic “perp walk” resembling Hannibal Lecter’s treatment backfired on New York authorities, boosting donations to over $743,000.
Mangione, charged with murder and terrorism for allegedly killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, received heightened security during extradition, drawing public sympathy.
Critics argue the campaign glorifies violence, while supporters emphasize fair trial rights.
Mangione, who pleaded not guilty, faces the death penalty if convicted.
This image is so ridiculous. Like he’s a danger so much that it took a platoon of people to parade this dude in cuffs. He allegedly killed one dude, he didn’t EAT the guy. It was blatantly obvious for everyone that this was a show of force, and it ironically makes them look weak as fuck.
You want me to respect your strength? Go put handcuffs on Trump. The rule of law is broken. The weak suffer the most and the rich pay to stay out of it.
I’m not a violent man. A death of another human is a complicated introspection for most people. Then there are others who don’t even consider the value or even a difference in perspective. Luigi is not some psychopath. Allegedly, he deliberately chose impact at the highest level he could. The representation of a broken and predatory system. It’s not ok that faceless entities who aren’t doctors can choose the life and death choices over the recommendations of doctors.
That is what gets me, all these people who need guns and such to feel strong and tough. The pirates did that. The purpose of the Jolly Roger was to instill fear, but ultimately they wanted the other ship to surrender quickly and without a fight. Pirates were all about show to make victims be afraid of them. But ultimately they were just men in poor health.
He killed one dude,
Stop saying this shit.
Yep. He didn’t do anything. Innocent into proven guilty.
If you want to be accurate, he was the primary suspect of the CEO shooting.
Thank you! Everyone has been saying this and it’s so cop-brained that it’s frustrating.
They have not proven that he killed anyone. He is innocent until proven guilty. When you accept that he actually did anything before he is convicted, you are aiding the police’s and prosecutor’s job by making the assumption that arrest = guilt.
Why, is the court going to use random Lemmy comments as evidence?
Why, are you in favor of spreading misinformation?
It’s like they keep forgetting he is handsome
No, I pretty much supported him the moment it was clear that the CEO toppled over from a pre-existing condition called “being vulnerable to lead projectiles.”
Only 9mm too, what a nerd. Back in my day, we were expected to have built up an immunity to 9mm by high school.
honestly, coddling the human body about gun shots is making us weak as a people. we’ll never get over this pandemic of gun violence if we keep natural compensatory measures from kicking in.
Who would’a thunk cops are really bad at reading the room?
“Okay guys, we’ve got an attractive man with a huge amount of public support behind him regardless of guilt. How can we not turn him into a martyr?”
“Hannibal Lecter walk?”
“Yeah that won’t backfire at all!”
LOL. Looks like some orange angel taking a walk into hell.
lol what could they possibly expect him to do that necessitates having multiple men with rifles?
While they didn’t need to go overboard like they did, the threat model is reversed. They are worried about what other people might do to him.
Ie: attempt to free him.
Yep, this is in direct response to what happened to Lee Harvey Oswald.
The authoritarian mind can’t help itself.
Given the success He should start his Presidental run right now. ( I want at least to see this movie )
Ya know, a certain citizen gone president recently employed the tactic to avoid persecution for his crimes… Can we drag the Mangione case another 3 ish years so Luigi can declare for presidency? Then (based on precedent) his case has to stall until after the election.
“It’s horrible when anybody has their life cut short by another person, especially when it could have been prevented,” Beard says on Luigi. “But the same logic has to apply both ways, right?
“Preventing people from getting the healthcare that they need – that you and your company have access to and could provide them, but don’t do so because it would threaten your business model – that’s an act of violence, too,” Beard says.
Hello based department, we got a candidate here for you.
“Luigi” in reference to the name of his podcast not the person Luigi Mangione
These government gooners literally cannot comprehend why people live this guy and hate them. It’d be funny if it wasn’t so irritating that these are the assholes in charge.
It also helps that Luigi looks fine af. Like not even kidding I’m sure that’s a big part of the support too lol.
I agree. Lemmy seems unable to grasp this. He looks like a super nice, ordinary guy that you’d like to hang out with.
He probably is, but what about all the other people who don’t look like him? No one talks about jury nullification for their cases.
Exactly. Ugly people would have a much much different experience. It gets ignored.
I hope this is what you meant. Because I agree with that.
I still love what he did (or didn’t do) a lot though. I appreciate his actions a lot.
But I mean, girls (and boys haha) are literally sending him nudes to the point where it’s too much for the officers to handle so they needed to limit it.
That tells me everything.
That’s pretty much what I meant.
The core criticism of Jury Nullification is that it’s dependent on the jury’s feelings towards the defendant.
12 people might agree that Luigi shouldn’t be punished regardless of what the law says, but is that just as likely to happen for someone who’s ugly, or from a minority, or even just socially awkward?
Spoiler: No.
It would not be the same. But I hope he does not get death penalty. That would be so unfair. Even if he killed the CEO or whatever… some people literally deserve to be killed. And that guy was one of them.
Edit. I also hope his death was slow and painful. I hope he suffered a lot. Oops.
His treatment caused about . 02% of the support for him.
United Heaths treatment of the rest of us caused the rest.
