Summary

Luigi Mangione, charged with the December 2024 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, released his first public statement through a new website launched by his defense team.

He expressed gratitude for widespread support and acknowledged the letters he has received. The website provides case updates and a fundraiser, which has raised over $400,000.

Mangione has gained a following among those frustrated with the U.S. healthcare system. A poll found 41% of voters under 30 viewed the assassination as acceptable.

His next court date is Feb. 21.

  • @kikutwo
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    -265 days ago

    So he just happened to have a gun on him in Pennsylvania that coincidentally matched the ballistic evidence in Manhattan?

    • @[email protected]
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      425 days ago

      Let me see the footage of the arrest. Dept desperate to “get their perpetrator” often do desperate things, can’t be having the ruling class be murdered and nobody being punished for it now can we?

      • @kikutwo
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        -75 days ago

        The Altoona PA police department made the arrest.

        • @[email protected]
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          155 days ago

          Are you insinuating that police forces don’t work together or share information? Show me the video I want before he arrived, body cams, all of it. Every house has a ring camera it should be pretty solid unless mysterious it didn’t work just like the night Epstein was murdered.

      • @kikutwo
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        -25 days ago

        So the Altoona Pennsylvania police who made the arrest just happened to plant the evidence for the NYPD? Lol

        • @[email protected]
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          55 days ago

          What I want to know is - where is Luigi’s workshop?

          That kind of 3D printed gun isn’t just something you can print off at the library and start blasting. Even for a skilled 3D printing expert with a workshop full of plastic and metal working tools, you’re looking at months of prototyping, printing, fitting, testing out prototypes at a gun range, etc. It is possible for skilled crafters to build an untraceable gun from a 3D printed frame and pieces ordered off the net. But it’s nothing like just hitting “print” and having a gun.

          This is what really gets me. Luigi was apparently living as a drifter for the last year or so. His family had been trying to get in touch with him. A hostel is not the place where you’re going to be able to make a 3D printed gun. You need a workshop, and one that you can operate in with a high degree of privacy for an extended period of time.

          So, again, where is Luigi’s workshop? 3D printed guns don’t just materialized from nowhere. If Luigi made the gun, he must have a workshop. Unless the police can show where that workshop is, I’m going to assume the gun was planted on him.

          Where is Luigi’s workshop?

          • @vxx
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            55 days ago

            Youtube channels get banned left and right for printing functional guns on their 10 year old printers. They usually don’t design them themselves but download them. The designs are made in a way that you can built them at home.

          • @kikutwo
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            35 days ago

            Uh, maybe he bought it?

            • @[email protected]
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              45 days ago

              Ok. Then you just transfer the chain back one level. Who did he buy it from? Think about the logistics of buying one of those. Imagine you wanted to buy a ghost gun. How would you actually go about doing that? Yes, organized crime rings and gangs may make these things, but they don’t just sell them to any random kid who walks up wanting to buy one. They’ll obtain them for their own trusted members. But if a random white kid shows up looking to buy a gun, the thought of most people would be that this guy is planning a school shooting. And no gang wants that type of heat.

              • @[email protected]
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                24 days ago

                That doesn’t matter, though. He isn’t being charged with manufacturing an illegal firearm so the prosecution does not have the burden of proving that he did so. Likewise, if he is being charged with gun trafficking, they still don’t need to prove where he got the illegal gun from, just that he had it.

                And he’s being charged with terrorism, for fuck’s sake. Do you really think the standard for evidence at this trial will be a fair one? The prosecution is likely to get away with hearsay while the defense will be expected to provide DNA evidence from the actual killer as well as his parents and grandparents to get the case dismissed.

              • @kikutwo
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                -75 days ago

                It’s really not this deep. A white privileged kid murdered someone in a pathetic martyr operation and he’s going to prison for decades.

                  • @kikutwo
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                    -55 days ago

                    My replies are all factual while yours rely on the Boogeyman.

          • @kikutwo
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            -55 days ago

            Because it wasn’t their case and they have no connection to it.

            • Ricky Rigatoni 🇺🇸
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              What cop wouldn’t want to jump on the opportunity to be the one to catch the guy who did a high profile murder?

              • @kikutwo
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                -35 days ago

                I guess the one who forgets about the other evidence in New York.

        • @Rhoeri
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          You cant be rational in an irrational discussion. It never goes well- and usually ends in pitchfork-related injuries.

          Be safe. These people aren’t using nuance or logic at all.

          • @kikutwo
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            -25 days ago

            It’s sad how fucked up they are.

    • @[email protected]
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      Security camera footage that shows where the assassin dumped the gun and backpack, suppress the footage, have chatGPT whip up a manifesto, pin it on some guy with a similar nose.

      Like, seriously, when’s the last time you saw a cop outside of a cop T.V. show? Are we still pretending they have the publics best interests at heart?

    • @SPRUNT
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      135 days ago

      Just because that’s what the police said doesn’t make it true. Police are known liars and have been caught countless times arresting the wrong person, planting evidence, and/or lying to get an arrest and make themselves not look as inept as they are.

      The police need to punish someone. If a crime has been committed, that’s a bonus. If they are punishing the preparator of the crime, that’s a double-bonus. If they can murder you, they get a paid vacation while the union takes care of the paperwork.