Mangione’s hands were handcuffed behind his back as video shows him begin to turn to yell. One police officer held Mangione’s right arm while ushering him from a police vehicle into the courthouse, as four more officers rushed to help usher him into the building while he screamed.“It’s completely out of touch! It’s an insult to the intelligence of the American people!” Mangione appeared to yell in the video.
It’s not clear whatMangionewas referencing.
Luigi Mangione.Jeff Swensen/Getty
Jeff Swensen/Getty
The former high school valedictorian and University of Pennsylvania computer science graduate also faces charges in Pennsylvania for carrying a weapon and showing a fake ID to a police officer. He was arraigned in a courthouse near Altoona on Tuesday and denied bail.
Mangione has not yet entered a plea.
A law enforcement source told PEOPLE on Monday that officers found a “manifesto” that Mangione had written railing against the healthcare industry, writing that Thompson’s killing “had to be done” and that “frankly, these parasites had it coming.”
Luigi Mangione.Altoona Police Department via Getty
Altoona Police Department via Getty
Thompson, 50, was gunned down in front of the New York Hilton Midtown hotel in Manhattan where he and other UnitedHealthcare executives were set to gather for an investor meeting.
Shell casings found at the scene of Thompson’s murder reportedly had the words “deny,” “defend” and “depose” on them — a possible reference to “deny, delay, defend,” a phrase used about the insurance industry to describe a strategy of rejecting claims.
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Several reports have alleged Mangione has been dealing with “debilitating” back pain in recent years with friends and family losing contact with him in recent months.CNNandThe New York Timesreported several friends have attempted to reach out to him on social media since this past summer, while theSan Francisco Standardreported Mangione’s mother, Kathleen Mangione, reported him missing to the San Francisco Police Department on Nov. 18.
R.J. Martin, a friend who says he met Mangione through a co-living space Martin founded in Hawaii, told theHonolulu Civil Beatthat Mangione “went radio silent in June or July.”
source: people.com
