How fucking ridiculous is this?

The police and politicians had to make a show of it OP

They were proving that they were taking the panicky demands of their C Suite overlords seriously.

Poor brave boy

We will always treasure you, for you have shown us the way

These people have it right.

I just wish there were more protesters out there.

Looks like they expected a whole lot more of his fans to show up.

This parade of cops and officials serves to inflate his ego is counterproductive.

That idiot mayor needs to fuck off

TERRORIST!!!

[quote] This parade of cops and officials serves to inflate his ego is counterproductive.

This parade of cops and officials is ridiculous, grandiose, and counterproductive.

There, I fixed it for you.

R1 has is right. This "show of force" is to appease this country's CORPORATE OVERLORDS.

I expect that this kind of thing will get worse. More gun violence, more wealthy people will be targeted as trump's policies will cause people to lose their jobs and the wealth disparity will widen.

Yes expected more protestors- cheering him on. People are working and it’s Christmas.

Look forward to your comments on the real criminal-go for it!

Seems he got a new haircut plus his eyebrows trimmed.

Adams is such a clown.

[quote] TERRORIST!!!

[quote] —I'm so afraid!!!

That's what your Corporate Masters would like you to believe.

They want you to be afraid of Luigi and to think that he's a "terrorist," in order to distract us from THEIR terrorist actions against the people of this country.

Corporate America are the real terrorists and criminals.

They're the ones who need to be paraded down the streets of NYC with guns held at their backs.

Hopefully, one day they will be.

Nonsense. Law enforcement would react the same way, were it a poor person gunned down. We have only ONE TIER of Justice in America!

They are really upping his anti-hero status without even realizing it! They think they're making an example of him, but they're totally doing the opposite. The way they're sauntering as if he were a war criminal is hysterical.

Of course, they could have driven him in, but it wouldn't have the same affect. Also, they used the Wall Street heliport with its dramatic location and backdrop (and probably more expensive) as opposed to the mundane westside heliport on the Hudson. This is all so surreal and absurd.

Adams parading around like he's not a perp himself.

What do you expect? The media made a big deal about the shooting when it first occurred, so of course, law enforcement has to do the same and put on a show.

Hey,

I am trying to get people to see Josh's stand up on this madness.

I doubt they would have even been able to get close. R9

This just makes him look badass.

[quote] Of course, they could have driven him in, but it wouldn't have the same affect. Also, they used the Wall Street heliport with its dramatic location and backdrop (and probably more expensive) as opposed to the mundane westside heliport on the Hudson. This is all so surreal and absurd.

Nailed it.

Law enforcement is showing that you do not fuck with the corporate class. They are your masters, dammit!

These "Perp Walks" are Dick-measuring contests for law enforcement. And I respect Europeans more for not allowing them. Luigi Mangione is still presumed innocent until proven guilty under our system.

Just look at this fucking circus.

This really makes me angry.

^^^^^

Inside Edition really captured the theater of it all, at R24.

That's some good footage they got.

Great move, guys. This will only make us hate CEOs even more. Did they kick some dying meemaws off of Medicare right after this perp walk to soothe their singed fee fees?

Oh to be on that jury.

I bet Luigi is the first perp ever helicoptered into New York City.

a "literal" army

Oh, fucking, dear

STFU R29.

It's all performance theatre.

I totally agree, OP. You'd think he was the dictator of a foreign country or something. It was fucking ridiculous, and everyone I've talked to about this thinks the same. They're not really in tune with public sentiment over this guy, it's overkill and people are seeing that just because this was a rich guy who was a CEO law enforcement is going overboard with a big public spectacle. It's sickening.

And Eric Adams being there was also fucking ridiculous, he has nothing to do with this. What a grandstanding jackass.

R32, Adams is just glad he's not the perp on the perp walk, as he should be.

The dick-swinging by law enforcement and mayor was stupid: if the Mickey D employees/customers hadn't phone in a tip, they'd still be looking for Luigi.

They have to make an example of him for the country - "WHITE BILLIONAIRES ARE ALL THAT MATTERS. If any of you other dumb fucks are thinking of something similar, look what we did to this guy!"

Making this millionaire's son out to be some sort of economic revolutionary hero is every bit as ludicrous as making billionaire Trump to be some sort of populist "man of the people" President.

I was shocked at the number of military and police surrounding him. I understood it when that Russian serial killer was caught portrayed very well in the HBO movie Citizen X.

Brilliant insight, R34!

No, R35, it is about White perps. Make an example of how violent and destructive White people are.

[quote] But because it was a motherfucking CEO, he has to be escorted into NYC by a LITERAL ARMY of military and police.

It's a show of force intended to counteract the support Luigi enjoys in some quarters. He needs to be villainized and menaced before some other dimwit gets the idea that killing a CEO is a good thing.

You'd think he was Hannibal Lecter with piece of theater.

With THIS piece of theater.

R41, I texted similar to a friend of mine 3 hours ago, my nephew texted the same sentiments three minutes after. They think people are stupid.

Interesting Twitter observation:

[quote] NYPD apparently sat around asking themselves "How can we arrange to transport Mangione in a way that makes him look to his supporters like Christ being taken to the cross."

Yah! Go back to killing the homeless and one another, peons! No more rich people get wacked or we really put the screws to this Luigi kid. Ya understand?

r35/r40/r45 Yep, exactly.

Which one of you bitches did this?

killing rich people is a greater crime than inciting insurrection - clearly

Wow, R44.

The propaganda machine in this country is hard at work trying to protect the billionaire class.

WW x 1000 for R49.

And how many died that day because of Trump?

Asshole Adams should be marching TRUMP down the street with the police behind him, and NOT Luigi.

The boy has got a lot of swagger.

For a lot of unhinged supporters of murder, he's become a folk hero. It's not outside the realm of possibility that he and whatever police escort he has would be mobbed by rioters, many of whom would attempt to free him.

It doesn't matter what you think of healthcare or CEOs. What matters is that he murdered a person. Full stop. Stop trying to justify why murdering this guy was not that bad.

Either you believe in the rule of law or you don't. Yes, it really is that simple.

R53 supports Daniel Penny murdering a mentally ill black guy on the subway, but is completely against murdering a health insurance CEO who has denied claims coverage for thousands of sick people.

GO FUCK YOURSELF, CUNT!

R53, go eat shit, you human slime

R53 the rule of law died on Election Day

Free Luigi and set up the guillotines in the town square

I think they did fear a mob trying to free Luigi, so they took extreme precautions. Wonder if there will be unintended consequences? This is becoming a bigger story than I ever would have imagined. And these federal charges, duplicating the state charges - both going after him for murder, WTF? The feds say he "stalked" the guy and that's why it's federal.

Although... I remember among all the rumors in the early days - that the CEO had gotten threats to his life in the days/weeks leading up to the conference? If Luigi was stupid enough to do that, he could get the death penalty, solely due to the stalking because just plain murder isn't enough to meet the letter of the law.

Now if they execute him, ai yai yai. The trigger for copycats... revolution? Well, your mention of guillotines got me off on a tangent R56. Brian Armstrong = Louis XVI? Is Trump Marie Antoinette? No, that would be Elon "Let them eat cake" Musk.

After seeing this today, I figured out what this was all about.

When Columbine happened it was a singular and shocking event. Kids didn't just go around shooting up their schools. Now it happens hundreds of times a year in America.

The CEO shooting was a singular and shocking event as well, and given the reception Luigi has received among much of the public I think they're afraid that in another ten years we'll be browsing the news and say, "Oh, another CEO-involved shooting in Manhattan, what else is new ... "

I'm thinking of Russia in the 90s when the oligarchs/billionaires were taking each other out, traveling around with small militias for protection. History doesn't repeat itself - but it rhymes?

[quote] I think they did fear a mob trying to free Luigi, so they took extreme precautions

Nope.

I don't buy that for one second.

If that was really the case, then law enforcement would have done exactly as R15 mentioned.

The transfer would have been done covertly, in the middle of the night, in a secured car, and in secret garages and covered areas.

That's how any high profile criminal is treated.

The media never sees the person because they are kept hidden and protected.

This was done in broad daylight, in total view of the media, and he was WALKED DOWN THE STREET with the Mayor walking behind him.

This was all for fucking show for corporate executives.

There is no doubt about it.

Luigi will be made an example for anyone who thinks of doing the same thing.

I'm just surprised they didn't pull a Lee Harvey Oswald on Luigi, and have some Jack Ruby character assassinate him on the street.

Does this remind anyone of the Depression when Bonnie and Clyde, and John Dillinger, became folk heroes despite robbing banks, robbing banks, killing shopkeepers and at least nine policemen?

* Damn - I stopped to look up how many cops Bonnie and Clyde killed and lost my train of thought and repeated myself. Dillinger just killed one sheriff, apparently.

ITS A LITERAL CEO GENOCIDE

Stop denying care to patients and everything will be hunky dory r63

But the won’t, because the C suite executives annual bonuses are worth more than people’s live

Like A Holy Lamb Surrounded By Wolves

This tweet is spot on in its imagery

I don't know about the "holy" part, but he's definitely being led to the slaughter, with the death penalty charge.

This kid is being set up.

I hope his attorney gets him off.

That won't be easy R66

Mangione was hit with four federal charges Thursday, including stalking, a firearms offense involving a silencer and murder through use of a firearm, a charge that makes him eligible for the death penalty

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If they give him the death penalty, there will be riots. It'll make the summer of 2020 look like a tea party.

A freedom fighter for Justice kills one ceo and gets this type of treatment. Marc Davis did not kill anyone but he gets arrested and gets the same type of treatment without choppers or a mayor in attendance.

There is no Justice unless you are rich

“Mack “ Davis —-Freedom Fighter

This was a show murder and they'll put on a show prosecution & punishment, hopefully to dissuade others from copycatting.

I hope I’m on the jury so I can vote to fry him up and take something pretty away from all of you easy whores.

If they kill him instead of just putting him away and letting him get fat and unfuckable like R72 already is, they'll have a higher risk of creating a "movement" in his memory.

R53 I believe the rule of law is part of a social contract - the state that enforces said laws must provide adequate governance. Since the elite classes refuse to stop their campaign of mass violence and oppression, and the law is made to protect but not bind them, they must be killed and intimidated until changes are made. Luigi is a hero.

Why is the mayor there? It’s like they’re deliberately doing what they can to keep throwing flames on the fire. If that’s not deliberate, then whatever TF this is will backfire spectacularly.

What a bunch of clowns.

Those cops couldn’t even catch this guy. A McDonald’s worker did.

[quote]I think they did fear a mob trying to free Luigi, so they took extreme precautions.

that is simply bullshit

"A freedom fighter for Justice kills one ceo and gets this type of treatment."

You really shouldn't believe everything you read on social media.

Morons like you are the reason a lying, con artist/thief/convicted felon has been elected not once, to the Presidency.

[QUOTE]I think they did fear a mob trying to free Luigi, so they took extreme precautions.

Oh, please. People from different city, state, and Federal agencies were likely vying to get recognized and put in the perp walk as a kind of feather in their cap and highlight of their otherwise mundane careers.

Yea, gotta protect the public from the bad guys.

[quote]If they give him the death penalty, there will be riots.

No, there won't. And, with him being held at Supermax probably, we won't even know until sometime afterward. And people will shrug a collective "Who?".

Bootlicker ^

R68 MARY!!!

R2 are most of his supporters that homely?

They look very "woke."

This hot black man shares some profound truths about what modern violence is and the hope for something better

He’s hot as hell

R81's pussy stinks!

Did the NYPD's perp walk of Luigi Mangione backfire?

I've never wanted to blow him more.

R88, uh, yes

It backfired bigtime. It made them look like a bunch of clowns. And Adams being there was just bullshit.

My Luigi is in trouble...

[quote] Luigi Mangione's NY judge, Gregory Carro, is tough on crime and sympathetic to victims

Luigi Mangione's NY judge is Gregory Carro, described as tough on crime and sympathetic to victims.

Lawyers call him no-nonsense, and some say he leans pro-prosecution.

Carro has allowed video and still photography in his courtroom during past high-profile proceedings.

His cases have earned tabloid nicknames, including the "rape cops," a "killer nanny," and a "blowtorch hubby." In 2021, he presided over the moped hit-and-run death of Gone Girl actor Lisa Banes.

New York Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro has had dozens of sensational — sometimes horrific — cases in his 25 years on the Manhattan criminal bench.

As early as Thursday afternoon, Carro will preside over his most high-profile media case yet, the prosecution of Luigi Mangione, who is accused of the ambush shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

With Carro on the bench in a likely-packed 13th-floor courtroom, Mangione, 26, will be officially informed of the first-degree murder indictment against him. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced Tuesday that the indictment alleges a top charge of murder as an act of terrorism.

After the charges are read, Mangione will have the chance to enter a plea of not guilty. Carro, who is expected to keep the case, will then set a next court date and order that Mangione be taken to a city jail to await that date.

A former Manhattan narcotics and homicide prosecutor, Carro was appointed to Manhattan's criminal court bench in 1998 by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Carro is the son of retired Associate Justice John Carro, who in 1979 was the first Puerto Rican appointed as an appellate judge in New York.

The younger Carro is known among defense lawyers at Manhattan Criminal Court as a "tough draw. "

Kuby called Carro "harsh but not crazy," as Manhattan criminal judges go.

Five Manhattan defense lawyers interviewed by Business Insider said the judge leans pro-prosecution.

The most common descriptor among lawyers reached by BI? "No nonsense."

"He's a tough judge," said a former fellow jurist, Charles Solomon, a state Supreme Court Justice in Manhattan who retired in 2017.

"Very firm, very fair, and well-respected by his colleagues," Solomon said of Carro.

Solomon said that Carro would have been assigned as Mangione's judge through a strictly random process.

What likely happened was that on December 4, the day of Thompson's shooting, Mangione's lead prosecutor, Joel Seidemann, happened to be on call to "catch" new homicides.

Seidemann's team of prosecutors feeds all of its new cases into one of only two assigned courtrooms, and one of them was Carro's.

"This is the typical way a case gets assigned," agreed another retired state Supreme Court justice, Michael Obus, who served as a supervising judge in Manhattan Criminal Court from 2009 to 2017.

"He's a solid guy," Obus said. "He's a very good trial judge. In general, lawyers could do a lot worse than Judge Carro."

[quote] Luigi Mangione Gets Presidential Treatment as He Arrives in NYC

Luigi Mangione’s return to New York City was more befitting of a president or a pope than a suspected assassin.

Little more than two weeks after he is alleged to have gunned down the chief executive for the nation’s largest health insurer in Midtown Manhattan, the curly-haired, sharp-jawed former Ivy Leaguer emerged from a helicopter on a helipad overlooking the East River.

Freshly extradited from Pennsylvania, Mangione appeared handcuffed in a prison-issue orange jumpsuit. He was immediately swarmed by dozens of law enforcement officers, some of them holding rifles. The cameras of every major cable news station were trained on the 26-year-old software engineer.

Even embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams was waiting on the pad, ready to escort Mangione—an attempt at “leading from the front,” he would soon tell the gathered reporters.

Traffic at the Downtown Manhattan Heliport, the venue of Mangione’s entrance, typically comes from top Wall Street executives. It is where Marine One, the presidential helicopter, often touches down in the city.

Mangione’s arrival was unusually circus-like, even for a high-profile suspect in a federal case, according to John Miller, CNN’s chief law enforcement analyst, who was once a deputy commissioner for the NYPD.

Someone accused of a “particularly heinous” crime might receive some increased security measures, like a bullet-proof vest, for their own protection.

“In this case, it’s upside-down,” Miller said. “The security around Mangione today is because of what they’ve been seeing in terms of the public support for him and their security worries about somebody not trying to attack him, but to try and free him from law enforcement.”

Media fervor hit a fever pitch when Mangione, who stands accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was arrested and his name was released. Rather than just outcry over the murder, he was met with praise, especially on social media, as waves of details about his background and the possible ideological underpinnings of his crime emerged.

The public image that has formed of Mangione is one of a well-educated, physically active, friendly young man, someone who was driven to brazen act of violence by his dismay with an unjust system.

The killing has stoked discussion about health-insurance industry practices to avoid paying out on claims—which, based on the brief manifesto reportedly penned by Mangione after the shooting, would seem to have been among assassin’s goals.

The significant online support for Mangione has drawn condemnation from some, especially pundits and politicians on the right.

Meanwhile, a recent Emerson College poll found that 22 percent of Democrats, compared to 12 percent of Republicans, found Thompson’s killing acceptable. For voters under 30, the figure was 41 percent.

At his extradition hearing earlier on Thursday, supporters with signs that read “Free Luigi” thronged around the Pennsylvania courthouse. Meanwhile, an online fundraiser for Mangione’s legal defense has raised over $150,000.

And in the hours since Mangione was perp-walked across the helipad, social media users have compared the image to various pop-culture and religious iconography—including Jesus Christ being led to his crucifixion by Roman soldiers, Superman in military custody, and Konstantin Korobov’s painting of the Lamb of God being ripped apart by wolves.

As Mangione’s star-studded legal team readies to face federal charges in New York, Mangione’s entrance to the city isn’t likely to be the last spectacle.

Luigi is John Wick.

He can jump higher than Mario. Gotta be careful.

Mayor Adams should play "Hail to the Chief" when Luigi walks into the court room.

You know, since he holds Luigi in such high regard as to give him a Wall Street helipad greeting and a heroes' walk down the streets of New York City with an armed police escort.

Luigi is Jesus triumphantly entering Jerusalem...

Do they serve Christmas dinner in jail?

Probably. He and Diddy can celebrate together.

Seriously - someone wrote they'll probably keep him in solitary, I forget why.

FREE Luigi!

A perp walk can double as a pap walk!

[quote] ‘Don’t They Want Us To Hate Him’: Social Media Users React To Luigi Mangione’s NYC Arrival

New York City officials wanted to send a message on Thursday by escorting Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old charged in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, from a helipad after he was extradited to Manhattan.

But social media users, criticized for heroizing Mangione, seemingly found a different message. His flanked arrival spurred an image dubbed by one viral post as a “late contender for hardest image of the year.”

New York Mayor Eric Adams and law enforcement officers followed Mangione — the subject of thirst tweets, a look-alike contest and other fanfare — in a so-called “perp walk” before he was brought to a federal courthouse in the city.

Mangione was flown to New York after waiving his right to an extradition hearing in Pennsylvania, the state where he was arrested after a multi-day search that ended at a McDonald’s.

Mangione appeared in an orange jumpsuit and handcuffs as officers surrounded him in a “perp walk” that, per CNN’s senior justice correspondent Evan Pérez, is usually avoided as such a move is “considered prejudicial.”

John Miller, a former deputy commissioner with the New York City Police Department and CNN’s chief law enforcement analyst, chalked the unusual arrival up to “the public support” for Mangione and security concerns over whether somebody would “try and free him from law enforcement.”

Adams — in remarks to reporters outside the helipad used by presidents and top business executives — said he and New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch wanted to send a “very clear, loud message” against violence in the city to show “the symbolism of leading from the front.”

The New York Police Department also shared its own photos of Mangione being led into a plane and trailed by officers, including some armed with rifles.

The move by New York officials appeared to spark another round of social media users heroizing Mangione including those who drew an eerie comparison between the so-called “perp walk” and a scene from James Gunn’s upcoming “Superman” movie, a teaser trailer for which was released Thursday.

“he allegedly killed one (1) guy btw,” read an X post with 237,000 likes alongside a photo of Mangione’s arrival captured by Michael Nagle for Bloomberg.

“with no exaggeration, this is actual contemporary art,” wrote one X user.

“why do they keep accidentally making him look like the coolest person alive don’t they want us to hate him,” wrote another user in a post with 38,000 likes.

The fatal shooting of Thompson has sparked talks of Americans’ frustration with the health insurance industry in recent weeks as lawmakers such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) have all weighed in on the topic.

Fight back. Don’t let the oligarchs tell you what to do

Why don't they broadcast it on Judy Justice?

slap them

Why is this thread grayed out?

Did the CEOs order it?

cunts will be cunts

I love that the media and the CEOs are turning Luigi into a hero legend.

The more they try to make him the enemy, the more it backfires on them.

Totally. Everyone knows they are lying liars

I trust CEOS!

Latinos already wrote a corredo about our hero Luigi

Hahaha.

They're now writing songs about our dear folk hero Luigi.

I fucking love it!

[Quote] They're now writing songs about our dear folk hero Luigi.

Will Diddy perform those songs for his cell I mean soul mate Luigi?

I don't follow a lot about Mayor Eric Adams and his legal problems. But doing a perp walk with an alleged "CEO Killer" fits his agenda, which also includes the following December 2024 items:

[quote] NYT: "Eric Adams Doesn’t Rule Out Becoming a Republican Again"

And, most important of all:

[quote] CBSNews: "Trump says he'd 'look at' a pardon for NYC Mayor Eric Adams"

So Eric is praying that the perp walk with Luigi is his final perp walk and not a rehearsal for his own.

Well, it's not like Adams killed anyone!

Biden freed a voodoo priestess? Why?

I hope he issues a posthumous pardon for Miss Cleo.

^^^And Miss Dionne Warwick will be accepting the award for the late Miss Cleo.

And miss cleo laine

All closet cases reaming their jocks because of proximity to the boy

I am so happy that Luigi's attorney is making the exact case that the op was making.

The EXACT case.

Whoever got this thread grayed out is clearly on the side of the 1%, the Billionaire Class, Wall Street, and Corporate CEOs.

But that doesn't matter, because the rule of law is what's important in this case.

You can try to silence the truth, but the truth always rises to the top.

Luigi looking quite sexy with his swagger....

r121's video check out the big burly cop looking down on Luigi like he's a snack

cuz he is

He'll be going to prison and I won't miss hearing about him.

I will, R125. It will be 145,000 threads on ugly and ignorant Trump and his cronies. For four years, at least.

R125 needs to be Luigi'ed.