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Luigi Mangione shouts at media as police rush him into court

www.newsweek.com Luigi Mangione shouts at media as police rush him into court

While being escorted into the courthouse for an extradition hearing, Mangione broke into an outburst at the assembled journalists.

Luigi Mangione shouts a message to the American people on his way to court:

“This is completely unjust and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience.”

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Please stay alive, Luigi. Regardless of whether what you did is right or wrong, and whether you actually did it or not, everyone needs you there (including both prosecutors and your defense).
Keep your message consistent, and any correspondence with the courts and police vetted by a lawyer so that it doesn't get misconstrued.
Please have someone you trust by your side 24/7 or a live feed at this point. Please report any detainment conditions that might intentionally drive someone towards self-harm to the public. People everywhere are counting on you.
- Has a comment ever been so close to an eternally echoed prayer as this?
  
  Amen.
  
  Hey I'm just saying, if any of y'all have family members who are currently incarcerated in NY or something, get them to protect him while he's in the slammer.
- Epstein was killed because he knew things and was still a threat to the rich. Luigi doesn't have anything to say that would hurt the rich anymore. In fact, killing him in prison would be incredibly short sighted by the rich - they need to stop the rest of us from mobilizing in his honor - which killing him out of revenge would not accomplish. The same news sources that tried to make us care about the evil assassin and helpless CEO will now try to character assassinate Luigi and make him a pariah. He can't galvanized a generation if he's a weirdo.
  
  I agree they are already desperately trying to paint him as a bad person, but so far it had the opposite effect. They will probably come up with some definitely not made up "revelations" about him soon.
  
  Well we don't know if Luigi is the actual assassin or not, a lot of reason to Epstein him if you know itll be obvious he didn't do it, but still need a fallguy so you can maintain the illusion of control.
  
  This makes me think of a fact I heard the others day; the reason "heretics" used to be burned was so that there was nothing left to have as artifacts to be worshipped.
  Ie the ruling class was trying to avoid martyrdom of the burned.
- What he did was right. Yes, much like how Hitler's death would've been sad for Eva Braun had she still been alive, Brian Thompson's death is sad for those who survive him, but the world is a brighter place for it.
  
  Right, and I share your opinion, but even for those people who think any death is bad, would not be happy with Luigi dead either.
- I think they want to go through this as quick as possible, so they can lock him forever out of sight so people start forgetting. Kind of what they did with the Unabomber, although here people side more with Luigi, so who knows.
  
  The absurdity of this guy getting a court hearing a day after his arrest, and Trump getting slow walked through all of his indictments over the course of four years is overwhelming.
  You can tell who is really in charge when the system is so scared of this guy and his message that they feel the need to put him away as fast as possible while the media drags him through the mud along the way. The oligarchs are scared.
  
  I think they could go through it, since one version of what is alledgedly his manifesto suggests he was not intending to make federal investigators' jobs difficult so more or less willingly gets caught? I'm not sure. But I won't forget, at least with my efforts to prevent corporate-owned healthcare from seepjng further into Canada.
- As citizens we can respectfully request the ACLU and NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund to get involved to ensure his human rights aren't violated and he stays safe.
  It'll be harder for bad things to happen to him with non corrupt watch dog agencies keeping and eye on things and hopefully showing up in person to see he's okay.
  Might as well empower the few agencies who have our backs while we're at it. Attention to prison reform is a good thing that can grow out of this too.
  Edit - adding the aclu website link with the contact us page. I'm pretty sure we have to select Pennsylvania and contact the branch closest to Luigi.
  https://www.aclu.org/about/contact-us
- How’s he gonna have a 24/7 live feed from jail?

They don't want him in front of a jury.
Regardless if it's him or not. They cannot afford him to get acquitted.
But they can't martyr him. That will be a death sentence to the US.
This isn't going to end well for anyone. This guy has shown a much darker picture of the US to us that we all know too well.
- Imho, as painful as it is, avoiding an economic civil war at this point does more harm than good over time. It kicks the can down the road until their side exclusively can use humanoid robots to fight their battles for them, and that just means get in line and die until collapse.
  The alternative is even darker, our non-wealthy children being judged by AI as to whether the potential profit/loss of healing them is greater or less than their remaining projected exploitation value to the owners.
  And that's just in Healthcare. Our entire economy has become this sociopathic.
  This is silent slaughter. No one should confuse quiet with peace. We haven't had peace for a long time.
  They don't care if only the top 5% is free on the backs of the 95%, they don't see the bottom 95% as human at all. I don't think society should continue under that bargain. It isn't worth it. No one is free until everyone is.
  
  This is silent slaughter. No one should confuse quiet with peace. We haven’t had peace for a long time.
  "True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice." -- MLK Jr.
  
  General strike, crash the fake economy built on systemic fraud.
  
  God damn that was a little too much to read just before bed.
  
  Our entire economy has become this sociopathic.
  I don't think that it has recently become sociopathic. It was certainly much worse in the past with the genocide of the Americas and slavery of Africans. I would argue that the ethics of the economy have improved, but the general public has become increasingly aware of how unjust it is.
  
  Remember remember the 4th of December.
- Yeah, I have a sneaking suspicion that hes going to commit suicide via 2 gunshots to the back of the head, with every security camera in the facility malfunctioning during it and that every other inmate in the vicinity was coincidentally unconscious.
  
  The Boeing special?
  
  You left off, got the bars off his 4th story cell and fell to his death. Or I guess it could be 12th story with the new prison they wanna build in NY China Town.
- He'll get a jury trial after about 2 years of waiting, locked in a cage
  
  My dream scenario is a mob marches on the capital cities ready to kill the 1% and Trump pardons Luigi and throws the rest of the wealthy to the mob to save his own ass. I believe Trump would do just about anything to save himself.
  Edit: Updated my silly hypothetical to better explain the idea. I obviously don't think it's realistic, but it would be amusing. Esp if it failed to sate the publics rage!
  
  Apparently prosecutor in NY has 6m
- Dude's gonna get epsteined
  
  Difference is that Epstein got whacked and his /clients/ let it happen.
  Luigi has real fans, who see what he did as a reflection of their own discontent.
  If something happens to him in jail, I believe that would still count as the aforementioned martyrdom.
- Much darker? Shit. Things seeming pretty dark in US already.
  
  Dark? This is the brightest it's been since before 9/11.
  
  Never challenge worse.
- the thing is, I think they can afford for him to be acquitted on the murder charges. the way the evidence was presented, he had a ghost gun and an illegal suppressor as well. whether they were planted or not is still up for debate, but that's a slam dunk case that they can just give the maximum sentence for and move on. I don't think the murder charges actually matter. I imagine if they can't get him on murder we'll quickly find out he was manufacturing drugs or some of bs charge they can give hime another 20 year sentence for and if the judge rules they can't be served concurrently then bam, still a life sentence
- They'll drag him and dope him to the gills.

They're setting him up to be too scared to face trial, so he killed himself. They talked about how much he was shaking since he got approached by police, he's pissing himself apparently. Dude is gunna get killed so he can't talk on the stand. The last thing the oligarchs want is for this guy to have more of a platform.
- Well the swine killed George Floyd.
  If they kill him, protest is the only thing working class can do practically so gonna need to hit the streets.
  
  As measured, obtainable, and realistic as your goal is, I fear it will be ineffective. Protesting is practical, safe, and easily ignored. One CEO gets popped, and suddenly there's murmurs, unified, across the political spectrum. The elites need to know the sheer terror of writhing masses, wielding blunt and rusty tools, awash with unabated malice.
  
  So we didn't get justice system reform after the George floydd protests. This is the 1% telling us the next one will have to be even bigger.
  
  Something tells me the protest would be far less organized and far more violent.
  If Luigi is killed cities will burn

American police once again showing to us how unfit for the job they are.
- I think the issue here is what you think the job is, not the other way around.
  
  Maybe the (mostly) professionalism from other countries has poisoned my mind and the police should indeed treat everyone as vermin.
- The police in the US are there to protect and serve the 1%, AKA the Oligarchs. It’s be wonderful if they actually wanted to serve and provide safety for their communities. I’m sure there are a few in every city that actually want to do the right thing but as a whole, police are basically only around to protect property and harass anyone they think might be a threat to said property, especially when said property is owned by one of the Oligarchs.
  
  '"This is OCP property!"
  Almost like the original RoboCop was trying to warn us about something. I had a thought but got distracted and can't remember what it was.
  Oh well, I'll buy that for a dollar!
- Mm 3,

Media will now work hard to turn him from hero to zero.
They gotta protect those sponsor dollarsp

The US is disgusting. I hate this country so much.

Obviously they want to make an example. They'll drag him through the mud in court, reveal that he was sexually deviant, claim he cheated on tests in school, played video games, played d&d, worshipped Satan, on and on. Then, when they've dragged the court out long enough to bore people, they'll execute him publicly and call it justice.
They won't epstein him, too obvious and likely to generate martyrdom. Killing him like a "common murderer" shows that "the system works" and that the machinery of the state's actions are natural and inevitable.
Or maybe they'll try to just lock him away forever and get him to write some books to make the prisons a little more money. Works for serial killers, and sales of "How to murder a CEO" will help to defuse revolutionary sentiment by recuperating the murder as an exotic one-off situation. He's gonna get simple-ricked.
- played video games
  I know you're joking, but there's already articles claiming him playing Among Us was proof he was a bad egg.
  
  i am sure boomers will fall for it lol
  but do they really expect that to not backfire with anyone who with two brain cell esp considered the game itself.
  this guy played a game for kids!!! RHEEEE
  
  He played as an ASSASIN in his college ESports team, terrible right? This tells you everything you need to know so don't do any more research and certainly this video game was his motive.
- You think they'll put him on death row?
  
  not in NY state.
- That's a great fantasy, but New York doesn't have the death penalty, and he didn't commit a federal crime. He won't get the death penalty, he'll likely get first degree murder and serve 30-life assuming they can show he targeted the actual victim and it wasn't just the first person he saw that looked like they might be a UHG executive.

Here's my guess as to what's going on. We all knew that the picture they posted of his face last week was a different dude. Half the internet was saying that. But Luigi realized it looked like him and skipped out of town so he didn't get in trouble for something he didn't do. That would explain why he looked sketchy when he was in the McDonald's. Dude was probably shitting his pants. He was just trying to get out of town before he got falsely ID'd as the culprit. He's been saying that they planted evidence on him which totally makes sense. What are the fucking chances he had literally every piece of evidence on him that they needed when he was just at a fucking McDonald's?
This just sounds hella suspicious. But I guess they found the scapegoat they were looking for.
- This is just motivated reasoning. Someone thinking "Oh no, I look kinda like that guy! I'm fucked!" seems incredibly far-fetched to me.
- What are the fucking chances he had literally every piece of evidence on him that they needed when he was just at a fucking McDonald's?
  Highest profile case in a century and prosecutor gets iron clad convication starter pack?
  They don't care about justice... Who ever killed the parasite sent a message...
  The elite is returning a favour and there is a chance Luigi is being framed.
  This whole thing got psyop written all over it. We just don't know which part which is tell tale sign of a psyop lol
  
  Justice? As the tangerine twit showed, it a legal system, not a judicial system.
- If this ain't the real guy then all that he really needs is for the real one to pop off another CEO and take credit that time.
  
  No, they will declare that a copycat and they have the right guy.
  Then they go on a wild goose chase grabbing more people that fit the profile. It will quickly fall into political arrests - only the politics are the wealthy and powerful vs all of us.
  
  I'm surprised no one has copied him yet. There are plenty of CEOs who earned it
- This just sounds hella suspicious
  Or maybe he wasn't the criminal mastermind everyone was jerking themselves over?
  
  You don't have to be a criminal mastermind to not go to mcDs a week after you committed a crime, with all of the evidence needed to put you away. This is either a setup or he intended to be caught.
- This bit is getting really tedious
- We all knew that the picture they posted of his face last week was a different dude.
  We did?
  
  i mean it's pretty obvious to me.
- If it's not him, then Luigi's wealthy family is likely going to go to bat for him. Last time I checked they already threw him under the bus, publicly.
- They found a handwritten manifesto on him. It would be very easy to prove that it's not his handwriting, if it actually were planted.
  
  handwriting analysis is pseudoforensic bullshit.
- oh ya and we're gonna get Trump any day now too

"Altoona pizza is gross and weird!"

Direct video clip https://imgur.com/mJbwzpQ
- So they did arrest the wrong man. How long before they "sucide" him?
  
  In his mugshot they put him in a vest reserved for people who are a suicide risk. He is definitely going to get Epsteined
  
  Why would they do that? What would be the point of killing an (presumably) innocent man if the killer is still on the loose?
- He definitely says "completely out of touch" (in an italian accent) and I think the fact that he's saying that to a camera means he's targeting the CEO-favored news coverage. I'm surprised not more people are picking up on that possibility.
- them thicc piggies all got the same haircut that's adorbs

I'm unsure if he means his arrest is unjust due to the order of magnitude worse injustice of the healthcare system or Luigi stating he's not the culprit (vigilante, hero, The Adjuster - whatever noun floats your boat).
It seems like the former? Annoyingly unclear.
- He’s claiming the police planted evidence on him as a attempt to justify denying bail. Specifically he says they planted a large amount of cash that he didn’t have on him ever and has no idea where it came from, and they lied about a waterproof bag he had for his phone, saying it was a faraday cage, and claiming his possession of such an item means he’s too sophisticated a criminal to be allowed bail.
  He knows what’s coming. They aren’t gonna want him to get to speak to a jury because it’s not gonna be a guarantee they convict him. If he gets a not guilty verdict, that would be VERY bad for the ruling class, so that’s not gonna be allowed to possibly happen.
  
  Yeah, I'm already extremely suspicious at the convenience of his arrest, given that there has to be a repercussion shown to the 'plebs' - can't have them getting ideas now about the ease with which they could depose their ruling oligarchs and actually get away with it.
  I didn't know about those details regarding the evidence being planted, so his statement makes much more sense with that context, thank you.
- The cops leaked/released a picture of him in jail after he peed his pants, likely from being teased or something.
  And multiple of him in the suicide prevention room, which notoriously doesn't prevent suicides, and is complete 24/7 isolation with only a weird smock.
  It's not to prevent suicide, it's torture. So he's likely screaming about how he's actively being tortured.
  He's rich tho, his lawyer will likely get him bail.
  It's like insane this is the standard and no politician ever wants to address our system.
  
  He's rich tho, his lawyer will likely get him bail.
  His grandparents are wealthy. His parents may be rich but might not be wealthy (they may or may not be, we only know about the grandfather’s extensive holdings and the expensive schooling).
  It may sound like bullshit to people stressed about making rent, but middle aged people worth a few million aren’t wealthy. Like if you’re super lucky you can work for 20-30 years and own a house in or near a major city and have a enough of a retirement or pension to quit working when you’re old and have a reasonable lifestyle. I’m in a mid tier city and even here paying off your house or condo means you’re worth at least 500k. That isn’t “buy a politician” money. That isn’t “live in any country I want because I’m rich enough that everyone gives me citizenship” money. That isn’t “immune from health insurance fuckery” money. That isn’t “get away with murder“ money.
  Anyway. A wealthy grandfather may be willing to help out with or pay for schooling. But it’s a coin flip on whether he’s gonna shell out hundreds of thousands or millions for a legal defense (and if he did, would he pull funding if the defense wasn’t to his liking?). From the granddad’s perspective, the kid is a class traitor.

Free Luigi
- #freeluigi
  
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He shouted to the media. Dumb editor.

They are going to crucify this guy.
- Time to build some guillotines.
  The class war is here, if you are not fighting you are bending over

Well ... um ... you reported that he shouted in your headline but didn't see the irony in what he was saying as you reported it. Nice job, Newsweek for supporting his statement through your actions.

What is the the punishment when a Duke's son kills a Baron?
- People coming from privilege can still be progressive and want to enact change. I'm not sure why you're denigrating this man and his actions based solely on the circumstances of his birth.
  
  “And yes, I recognize the irony that the very system I oppose affords me the luxury of biting the hand that feeds. But that’s exactly why priviledged fucks like me should feel obliged to whine and kick and scream - until everyone has everything they need.” - Propagandhi, “Resisting Tyrannical Government”
  
  Ironically, they’re the ones with the most time and education to figure out the truth. Then their own (wealthy) family will turn on them when they try for change.
- Mangione's grandparents may be rich, but they're nowhere near the level of a national company CEO rich. So you've got it backwards; this is like a Baron's grandson killing a Duke.
- Jihad.
  (I don't think enough people understood your comment, well done)
  
  And then the golden path
- No tea for a week?

My boy did nuthin wrong

law enforcement, the media, and every other avenue that was once impartial enough to havea shot at fair treatment from them have all been bought by the very fatcats that are crying the loudest

The corporate media is in the manufacturing business...

What does he think is unjust? Hopefully he has some prison writings later that can be analyzed.
- You wrote two sentences. The 2nd answers the first.
  
  I don't believe it does. It's fairly clear he was the shooter, and shooting someone typically comes with a prison sentence. Care to explain your reasoning further?

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