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Luigi Mangione had a three-page document with him when he was arrested that police say speaks to his alleged motive at the time of the killing, but claims the manifesto posted online was authored by Mangione are false. VERIFY analyzed excerpts of the handwritten document and found it doesn't match any of the language in the fake online manifesto. Substack also said it removed the account because it violates the platform’s content guidelines, “which prohibit impersonation.”
During a Dec. 9 press conference, New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said the handwritten document Mangione had on his person when arrested “speaks to both his motivation and mindset.” When asked if the handwritten document was posted online, the New York Police Department’s Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said, “Don’t know if it's online. As of right now, it's a handwritten three-page document.”
Ed: That's about the alleged depiction of the manifesto on social media. Mangione had a written document on him that has not yet been made public, although some of its contents have been seen and reported by media. This is an FYI to be careful about the claims that the nutcase manifesto was posted online.
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Ed: Yes, he fits the profile. The fact that he attended an Ivy League school doesn't contradict "the profile." Quentin Williams offers a pretty good if somewhat dry analysis of where the case will go next is worth watching.
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“This kid is a spoiled, rich brat, and he deserves to rot in hell… He just fucking killed a father of two.”@MCMoynihan on suspected UnitedHealthcare CEO killer Luigi Mangione—and the outrageous wave of public support he has received. pic.twitter.com/AkjqjSgaHp
— The Free Press (@TheFP) December 11, 2024
Ed: Amen to everything Michael Moynihan says here. Mangione is an idiot who lashed out because he's an idiot and couldn't apply reason to whatever conflicts he faced. He resorted to terrorism for the same reason all terrorists do -- utter intellectual impotence.
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Alekseyeva also appears in a TikTok video next to the caption: “have never been prouder to be a professor at the University of P3nnsylvania.” On the video, she moves her finger to the beat of a song from "Les Miserables" about downtrodden soldiers rising up in battle. Screenshots and recordings of the posts and videos were recirculated by a conservative account on X, formerly Twitter.
In a Tuesday post on X, the professor acknowledged she published a video on TikTok late Monday night, as well as several Instagram stories.
“These were completely insensitive and inappropriate,” Alekseyeva said, “and I retract them wholly. I do not condone violence and I am genuinely regretful of any harm the posts have caused.”
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BREAKING: UPenn has announced that a retraction from Professor Julia Alekseyeva who celebrated the alleged UHC CEO assassin calling him an “icon,” is sufficient and she will not be fired.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) December 11, 2024
This is absolutely ridiculous. Her teaching students is how we get to a Luigi Mangione. pic.twitter.com/qJFDc4il6Y
Ed: The question here isn't whether Professor Alekseyeva should be fired for her opinion, but why Penn hires moral idiots like her in the first place. Now that she's there, academic freedom applies, but the real issue is how overrepresented moral idiots are in the Poison Ivies.
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On Monday, [Governor Josh] Shapiro took issue with comments like those. It was an extraordinary moment that he tumbled into simply because Mangione was apprehended in Pennsylvania. Shapiro’s comments — pointed, impassioned and, inevitably, political — yanked the conversation unfolding on so many people’s phone screens into real life.
“We do not kill people in cold blood to resolve policy differences or express a viewpoint,” the governor said. “In a civil society, we are all less safe when ideologues engage in vigilante justice.”
But to hear some of his fellow citizens tell it, that’s not the case at all. Like Bonnie and Clyde, John Dillinger, D.B. Cooper and other notorious names from the American past, Mangione is being cast as someone to admire.
Ed: Good for Shapiro. But the prevalence of all the hero worship is an indictment of the formation of minds in the US, especially in the education system.
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CNN's Kasie Hunt asks the control room to "drop the banner" so viewers can check out the shirtless body of Luigi Mangione, the suspect accused of murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson pic.twitter.com/kxsfFXTsKC
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) December 10, 2024
Ed: It's "deeply troubling" that people are making him a sex symbol, and LET'S DROP THAT BANNER TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT SIX-PACK! Good Lord.
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GoFundMe says it has removed all fundraisers dedicated to Mangione on its site, telling FOX Business in a statement, "GoFundMe’s Terms of Service prohibit fundraisers for the legal defense of violent crimes. The fundraisers have been removed from our platform and all donors have been refunded."
TMZ reported Tuesday that within hours of Mangione being identified, merchandise celebrating the suspect flooded Etsy, including shirts, cups and even Christmas ornaments.
But Etsy appears to have removed all Luigi Mangione-themed offerings as of Wednesday morning. The company did not immediately respond to FOX Business' request for comment.
Ed: Good for both platforms. Anyone interested in buying memorabilia for a back-shooting coward needs to have their head and soul examined. At length.
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Ed: Speaking of moral idiots ...
WOW — Elizabeth Warren appears to condone the cold-blooded murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson:
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) December 11, 2024
"You can only push people so far and then they start to take matters into their own hands."
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