I seriously doubt that’s the reason. And now that the oligarchy has declared war on the rest of us with the Trump atrocity budget, Luigi may have become a role model.
This is so well written and tugged at my heart. I’ve wondered what it would be like if he were my son. They have to be grieving. It sounds like he’s been isolated by all accounts and probably grieving too. It’s very telling by his immediate folk hero status that a majority of Americans have also been grieving- for a better life. I’m glad to be witnessing this and reading excellent journalism such as this!
I would only say that his family is supporting him. The Mangione family in Maryland are a big deal. The lawyer the family hired shows love. Gilman School in Baltimore and Penn shows his family really cared about L’s growth. When you run large businesses like the Mangione family you have a Trust so your money is protected. His family set him up from jump street-like Day 1. He is drawing from the Trust. Luigi hired and paid for Karen Agnifilo. She is top notch! You have to be a bad ass to work in the Manhattan DA office.
I love this story. I don’t condone murder. I pray that the jury gives him a lesser sentence. I’m a lifelong nurse. It’s interesting that United healthcare has just been indicted for Medicare fraud.
He is clearly guilty and used a ghost gun but he deserves due process in a court of law as our Constitution requires. However what if he or someone inspired by the "mythology " created around Luigi decided to mass shoot everyone down to the receptionist at an insurance company? Like the mass shooting at 101 California Street office building in 1993? Coincidentally the shooter's name was also Luigi. Glorifying Luigi's act of violence sends the message that is ok to resort to violence and murder to settle grievances.
Our insurance companies are corrupt but if you want a country where extra judicial killings are approved, move to one. We were the richest country in the world, before Trump, but decades of Corporate Greed has hollowed out the middle class that built it. In Tennessee, a blood red MAGA state, there are no gun laws that the legislature hasn’t repealed. Every day and night, murders and injuries from guns clog up our emergency rooms and use up money and resources of our police. I will never be okay with assassination. I remember the Civil Rights Era when Medgar Evans was shot down in his driveway. I was in the 10th grade when President John F. Kennedy was shot, was watching the TV live the following Sunday Morning when his accused murderer was gunned down, was in my sophomore year at college here in Memphis when Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated and had just watched Senator Robert Kennedy’s campaign speech for President when he was shot down. I remember the day President Reagan was shot and his press Secretary was shot in the head and disabled for life. I lived through the assassination attempt of President Gerald Ford. I saw Former President Trump, almost killed by a teenage gunman. I thoroughly disagree with Trump. I did not vote for Reagan or Ford but I will never agree with gun violence.
Carolyn, the USA is a nation in which extra judicial murders are a regular activity. As is disappearing people.
My point to you is, you've been raised in this environment. Your worldview has been shaped by this environment. Yet, you seem to fail to question the true ethics of what Luigi did, instead of digging deeper.
Why would a country built on genocide, slavery, racism, anti Black hate, anti woman hate, and absolute contempt for the poor, environmental murder and so much more, want you to believe that Luigi's act is more horrendous than that CEO's job of normalised institutional murder?
What if you become the next person Luigi decides needs to die because of your job? Or the decisions you make? What if it is someone you love or care about? He is being shaped in being a folk hero but what if he is just a narcissist who loves the attention? Or think of this from a completely different angle. Assume that this insurance CEO was a horrible person that enjoyed making the decisions he did not because he was doing his job. What if Luigi were a Black man who did the same thing? Would Luigi be celebrated the same way if he was Black? Or would he be put down like Nat Turner in other words put down like a dog without the niceties of due process, a fresh hair cut, and comfortable jail cell. Think about it. There are people who believe George Floyd deserved to die because he was a drug addict and more importantly Black. There are people who believe Daniel Penny was a folk hero for saving the lives of people on a train from a "dangerous" homeless Black man - the key word being Black. When you praise and build up Luigi then you normalize the actions and make it easier to target other people, other people considered undesirable because you desensitize the public.
Elizabeth, you are missing the point. It's not that the insurance guy has to be a horrible this or that. The fact is he operated in a system that elevates profit above people. He deliberately and actively caused deaths, but was allowed to buy your system. That doesn't make it morally justifiable.
You tossing in Mr. Floyd exemplifies your confusion. That Mr. Floyd wasnt perfect is irrelevant, but not to the Amerikkkan system. Your system sanctions murder, genocide and flaunts the rule of law to make those crimes against humanity legal illegalities.
As any thinking person should know, the excuse of I'm just following orders/doing my job, does not hold up in court.
Now, your Amerikkkan govt really no longer has due process. It simply disappears people to concentration camps, whether or not they're innocent.
Luigi fired the first real shot in a bloody revolution that's just starting in Amerikkka. Hea fighting back and there is everything correct about that.
I think you might be the one who is missing the point if you condone the cold blooded and calculated murder of another person by a man who idolizes the Unabomber.
Luigi Mangione revered the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. Kaczynski was arrested in 1996 after terrorizing the public for two decades by mailing homemade bombs. He murdered three people and injured 24 more with his bombs from 1978 to 1995. This is the man Luigi admires. Luigi is a narcissist who believed he was justified in murdering the United Healthcare CEO. He could easily decide to target anyone else he dislikes and murder them. Luigi is dangerous. He can inspire other people to murder individuals they don't like and engage in terrorism like the Unabomber. People have been posting pictures of CEOs as targets online. This is wrong.
Caroline Mays Jones, so is UHC. Believe me, I know. I’m a more fortunate victim of their greed. They are behind so much suffering and get away with murder.
Now this is journalism.
Good one Toure. I would posit young Luigi's life has been in free fall for a long time, and may see themselves in him. Family wealth regardless.
Or Luigi could simply have all of the manipulative qualities of a cult leader.
I seriously doubt that’s the reason. And now that the oligarchy has declared war on the rest of us with the Trump atrocity budget, Luigi may have become a role model.
This is so well written and tugged at my heart. I’ve wondered what it would be like if he were my son. They have to be grieving. It sounds like he’s been isolated by all accounts and probably grieving too. It’s very telling by his immediate folk hero status that a majority of Americans have also been grieving- for a better life. I’m glad to be witnessing this and reading excellent journalism such as this!
I would only say that his family is supporting him. The Mangione family in Maryland are a big deal. The lawyer the family hired shows love. Gilman School in Baltimore and Penn shows his family really cared about L’s growth. When you run large businesses like the Mangione family you have a Trust so your money is protected. His family set him up from jump street-like Day 1. He is drawing from the Trust. Luigi hired and paid for Karen Agnifilo. She is top notch! You have to be a bad ass to work in the Manhattan DA office.
The authorities are afraid of Luigi's upcoming trial - it will be the focal point of everything that is wrong with America.
Now they are going to crackdown on this prison. Too humane.
Touré, thanks for some entertaining, informative Slice of a Different Life shit.
this article is gold. thx for writing.
I love this story. I don’t condone murder. I pray that the jury gives him a lesser sentence. I’m a lifelong nurse. It’s interesting that United healthcare has just been indicted for Medicare fraud.
Nice thought provoking article from an insiders POV.
Well done!
I hope this is true. He is innocent of any wrongdoing. The CEO was a murderer.
Luigi is a back shooter.
Disgusting 🤮
Thank you for your journalism and giving me some hope tonight ✨
Come on folks! He is a murderer!
Innocent until proven guilty
He is clearly guilty and used a ghost gun but he deserves due process in a court of law as our Constitution requires. However what if he or someone inspired by the "mythology " created around Luigi decided to mass shoot everyone down to the receptionist at an insurance company? Like the mass shooting at 101 California Street office building in 1993? Coincidentally the shooter's name was also Luigi. Glorifying Luigi's act of violence sends the message that is ok to resort to violence and murder to settle grievances.
Luigi dealt out justice.
What do you say about the executive who got the bullet he sorely deserved? Wasn't he also a murderer?
And if you don't think that the executive was a murderer, why not?
Our insurance companies are corrupt but if you want a country where extra judicial killings are approved, move to one. We were the richest country in the world, before Trump, but decades of Corporate Greed has hollowed out the middle class that built it. In Tennessee, a blood red MAGA state, there are no gun laws that the legislature hasn’t repealed. Every day and night, murders and injuries from guns clog up our emergency rooms and use up money and resources of our police. I will never be okay with assassination. I remember the Civil Rights Era when Medgar Evans was shot down in his driveway. I was in the 10th grade when President John F. Kennedy was shot, was watching the TV live the following Sunday Morning when his accused murderer was gunned down, was in my sophomore year at college here in Memphis when Rev. Martin Luther King was assassinated and had just watched Senator Robert Kennedy’s campaign speech for President when he was shot down. I remember the day President Reagan was shot and his press Secretary was shot in the head and disabled for life. I lived through the assassination attempt of President Gerald Ford. I saw Former President Trump, almost killed by a teenage gunman. I thoroughly disagree with Trump. I did not vote for Reagan or Ford but I will never agree with gun violence.
Carolyn, the USA is a nation in which extra judicial murders are a regular activity. As is disappearing people.
My point to you is, you've been raised in this environment. Your worldview has been shaped by this environment. Yet, you seem to fail to question the true ethics of what Luigi did, instead of digging deeper.
Why would a country built on genocide, slavery, racism, anti Black hate, anti woman hate, and absolute contempt for the poor, environmental murder and so much more, want you to believe that Luigi's act is more horrendous than that CEO's job of normalised institutional murder?
What if you become the next person Luigi decides needs to die because of your job? Or the decisions you make? What if it is someone you love or care about? He is being shaped in being a folk hero but what if he is just a narcissist who loves the attention? Or think of this from a completely different angle. Assume that this insurance CEO was a horrible person that enjoyed making the decisions he did not because he was doing his job. What if Luigi were a Black man who did the same thing? Would Luigi be celebrated the same way if he was Black? Or would he be put down like Nat Turner in other words put down like a dog without the niceties of due process, a fresh hair cut, and comfortable jail cell. Think about it. There are people who believe George Floyd deserved to die because he was a drug addict and more importantly Black. There are people who believe Daniel Penny was a folk hero for saving the lives of people on a train from a "dangerous" homeless Black man - the key word being Black. When you praise and build up Luigi then you normalize the actions and make it easier to target other people, other people considered undesirable because you desensitize the public.
Elizabeth, you are missing the point. It's not that the insurance guy has to be a horrible this or that. The fact is he operated in a system that elevates profit above people. He deliberately and actively caused deaths, but was allowed to buy your system. That doesn't make it morally justifiable.
You tossing in Mr. Floyd exemplifies your confusion. That Mr. Floyd wasnt perfect is irrelevant, but not to the Amerikkkan system. Your system sanctions murder, genocide and flaunts the rule of law to make those crimes against humanity legal illegalities.
As any thinking person should know, the excuse of I'm just following orders/doing my job, does not hold up in court.
Now, your Amerikkkan govt really no longer has due process. It simply disappears people to concentration camps, whether or not they're innocent.
Luigi fired the first real shot in a bloody revolution that's just starting in Amerikkka. Hea fighting back and there is everything correct about that.
I think you might be the one who is missing the point if you condone the cold blooded and calculated murder of another person by a man who idolizes the Unabomber.
Luigi Mangione revered the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. Kaczynski was arrested in 1996 after terrorizing the public for two decades by mailing homemade bombs. He murdered three people and injured 24 more with his bombs from 1978 to 1995. This is the man Luigi admires. Luigi is a narcissist who believed he was justified in murdering the United Healthcare CEO. He could easily decide to target anyone else he dislikes and murder them. Luigi is dangerous. He can inspire other people to murder individuals they don't like and engage in terrorism like the Unabomber. People have been posting pictures of CEOs as targets online. This is wrong.
Caroline Mays Jones, so is UHC. Believe me, I know. I’m a more fortunate victim of their greed. They are behind so much suffering and get away with murder.
🙏🏽