Luigi Mangione is accused of stalking United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and shooting him to death on Dec. 4, 2024.

  • spicehoarder@lemm.ee
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    23 hours ago

    I have not seen genuine evidence it was actually him. This wouldn’t even be the first or last time evidence was planted on someone to paint a narrative.

    The way I see it, they needed a scapegoat. Because how do you just lose a murderer in broad daylight?

    There’s no way someone smart enough to do all that somehow gets hungry and loafs around at a McDonald’s? The real killer collected his bounty and is living on a remote island by now.

    They needed to do anything to stop copycats from popping up, and they did an okay job at doing so.

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      20 hours ago

      The picture they showed and Luigi… looks like two different people.

      I hope his lawyers is using the Chewbacca defense.

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      22 hours ago

      They needed to do anything to stop copycats from popping up, and they did an okay job at doing so.

      Though I wonder if that will remain the case if Luigi actually does come up with an alibi he had all along, waiting to reveal it all this time just to really rub it in how law enforcement screwed this up. And with all the spotlight on him all the time, the real killer could be anywhere in the world at this point, completely unknown and unreachable. Not exactly a scenario that scares people off

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        19 hours ago

        Well a lot of people who are willing to take things this far don’t really care about the consequences of their actions anyway, so in a way I’m kind of surprised there are so many mass shootings involving innocent people, yet so few targeted attacks on scumbags like the CEO of United Healthcare.

        For many who are pushed far enough to carry out something like this, achieving their objective is more important than their own life.

        Unfortunately, the victims are so often people who don’t deserve it.