Ivy League murder suspect sparks movement fueled by anti-capitalist sentiment
ALTOONA, Pa. — While officials have not yet released a motive for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, there has been public speculation that the suspect had a deep dissatisfaction with the health care industry and capitalism as a whole.
On Monday, authorities arrested Luigi Mangione, 26, at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., after he allegedly presented a fake ID to local police when they asked if he had recently While in New York, he seemed to start shaking.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenney previously told Fox News that authorities also discovered a handwritten manifesto condemning the health care industry. The manifesto specifically mentioned UnitedHealthcare.
“In every era, there are people who step out and take the law into their own hands and become heroes,” Curtis Sliwa, founder of New York City’s Guardian Angels, told Fox News Digital.
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Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, was restrained by police and yelled as he arrived for an extradition hearing in Hollidaysburg, Pa., on Tuesday. (David Di Delgado, Fox News Digital)
“I think what shocks me most in this case is how many women embrace Luigi, not because he’s a handsome guy with abs, but because they think it’s a huge excess, especially If this particular Sliva said: “This healthcare company has repeatedly denied guaranteed surgeries. “
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He added that he believed the anger against the health care industry sparked by Thompson’s murder was misplaced.
“These people in the health insurance industry have serious problems with the way they operate. But you can’t solve the problem by shooting them in the back.”
The Altoona Police Department said in a news release Tuesday that the department is actively investigating threats against civilians and McDonald’s employees after reports that an employee at the fast-food chain called 911 to report a sighting of Mangione. He was arrested shortly after the call. The police department also received threats.
On December 4, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot to death in downtown Manhattan. (Business Wire | NYPD Crime Stoppers)
“This is not how we handle things,” Sliva said. “You don’t start threatening the person responsible for identifying him. It’s kind of like the gang code, they say ‘Snitches get stitches, end up in the ditch.'”
Nicholas Creel, an associate professor of business law and ethics at Georgia State University, told Fox News Digital that “the United States is currently in a period of heightened populist sentiment, and there is growing anger against elites, especially wealthy corporate executives. universal.
“[I]In this case, it’s not surprising to see so many people identifying more with the criminal than with the victim.
“This explains why so many people on social media began to express support for Luigi Mangione’s actions as soon as they learned who his victims were,” Creel said. “The CEO of a health insurance company may Being the pinnacle of the wealthy elite, many now believe they are responsible for their financial problems, so it’s no surprise to see so many identifying more with the criminals than the victims in this case.
Luigi Mangione appears in a photo in Pennsylvania after his arrest on suspicion of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Obtained by Fox News Digital Channel)
Creel added that the rhetoric of Mangione’s supporters “absolutely has a clear negative impact on the safety of wealthy corporate executives because it provides a concrete target for people’s anger.”
“That’s why many other health insurance companies immediately took down the identities of their executive teams, in an attempt to make them at least harder to get doxxed by populist mobs who saw the murder as a rallying point for a strike against the corporate elite,” Creel said.
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The suspected gunman in the murder of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson is believed to be Luigi Mangione, with surveillance footage showing him flirting with a hotel employee before the Dec. 4 shooting . (NYPD)
Dr. Rachel D. Miller, LMFT, founder of Hold the Vision Therapy in Chicago, told Fox News Digital that she sees the inequities of capitalism every day in her practice and with clients influence.
“Almost everyone is experiencing a major medical catastrophe as a result of homelessness, and the system continues to pressure them from multiple angles.”
“What I’m seeing in my clinical work is heightened anxiety about employment stability, greater challenges in the ability to make ends meet, and underlying fear of any catastrophic event, such as losing a vehicle, losing a car, Healthcare.
Luigi Mangione was arrested Monday for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City and is being held at SCI Huntington State Correctional Facility in Huntington, Pennsylvania. (David Di Delgado, Fox News Digital)
Bill Knack, founder and president of First Responder Protective Services, which provides executive protection to prominent national leaders and dignitaries, also told Fox News Digital that such rhetoric “leads to a slow burn of anger that eventually translates into action.”
“This has prompted people who were already dissatisfied with their wealth to follow messages that target certain leaders,” he said. “We have dealt with a number of cases where executives faced direct, concrete threats after their names were spread through similar online articles. ”
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Luigi Mangione appears in a photo on Facebook. (Luigi Mangione/Facebook)
Mangione, a private high school and Ivy League-educated young professional from the Baltimore area, was charged with multiple crimes in Pennsylvania and New York and faces a murder charge in New York.
Since his arrest, online sleuths have been digging into Mangione’s large and well-documented social media presence, with many users praising the murder suspect for allegedly killing Thompson, a married couple from a small Iowa town. The child’s father.
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On December 4, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside the Hilton Hotel in downtown Manhattan, leaving bullets scattered on the sidewalk. (Stefan Jeremiah/AP)
Even a professor at Mangione’s alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, praised the suspect on TikTok and Instagram, but she later withdrew the accusation.
Jeffrey Kallberg, associate dean of Penn’s College of Arts and Sciences, released a statement Wednesday regarding the position of Julia Alekseyeva, assistant professor of English at Penn.
“Assistant Professor Julia Alekseyeva’s recent social media posts have caused significant concern,” Carlberg said. “Her comments about the shooting of Brian Thompson in New York City are in line with the The values of the College of Arts and Sciences and the University of Pennsylvania are antithetical to their values, and they have not been condoned by the College or the University. Upon reflection, Assistant Professor Alexeeva agrees that these comments were insensitive and inappropriate and has withdrawn them.
Luigi Mangione has been charged with the Dec. 4 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson (inset) in New York.
Former Washington Post and New York Times reporter Taylor Lorenz told Piers Morgan that she and “many other Americans” were “delighted” after hearing the news of Thompson’s death.
“Unfortunately, I’m as happy as many other Americans.”
“I do believe in the sanctity of life, and I think that’s why I, like so many other Americans, feel happy, unfortunately,” Lorenz told Morgan On Monday, he later added, “Maybe not joy, but certainly not empathy.”
On Goodreads, a platform where users review and track books they have read, a profile matched with Mangione wrote a review for the book College Bomber, Ted Kaczynski.
“It would be easy to dismiss it blithely as the manifesto of a madman in order to avoid confronting some of the troubling issues it points to,” he wrote. “But we cannot ignore the prescientness of many of his predictions for modern society.”
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When writing about Kaczynski’s “Industrial Society and Its Future,” he quoted from another online article “Take that [he] Found it interesting.
“When all other forms of communication fail, violence is a necessity for survival,” he writes. “You may not like his methods, but from his perspective, this is not terrorism, this is war and revolution.”
UnitedHealthcare executive murder suspect Luigi Mangioni faces charges in New York and Pennsylvania. (David Di Delgado, Fox News Digital)
Mangione most recently stayed at a co-living space in Honolulu called Surfbreak Coliving, which is described on its website as a “coworking space for remote workers and digital nomads.”
“His entire time [Mangione] His former roommate RJ Martin told Fox News’ Jesse Waters on Tuesday. Secondly, our values Our ethics are to leave things better than you found them. He always contributes and takes care of others. Even after he moved out, he still came here to hang out and contribute to the community, spearheading a book club.
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In New York, Mangione faces one count of murder, two counts of second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, one count of second-degree criminal possession of a forged document and one count of third-degree criminal possession of a weapon.
In Pennsylvania, he reportedly faces one count of forgery, one count of carrying a firearm without a license, one count of tampering with records or identification, one count of possessing an instrument of crime and one count of presenting a false identification to law enforcement. Court documents.
Fox News’ Molly Markowitz contributed to this report.
