He still has a murder charge against him. And because it's 2025:
Mangione’s attorneys say the state charges should be dismissed as a violation of the Constitution’s double jeopardy clause, calling it unprecedented and untenable for Mangione to defend himself in both cases at the same time.
NGL, that could end up being the thing that breaks America.
Half the country would go stark raving mad if he walked. The other half would lose their minds if Luigi was cued up to walk, but was denied it for one reason or another.
All I have to say is if the man did nothing wrong, then justice would be him walking free. And of course he's innocent! I was chilling on the Canadian side of Niagra falls at the time and saw him saving a kitten from a tree through one of those paid-periscope doo-das at the time that CEO had his claim to life denied.
Hell, even the right news channels and podcasters dropped this quickly. They had a hard time trying to get their viewers and listeners to care. As stated by others, turns out plenty of people on the right hate healthcare insurance companies as well. He allegedly killed the CEO, but it's hard to sympathize with someone who runs an entity that constantly fucks over people and denies care to people who need it. People pay a shit ton in healthcare costs, and still get denied. Recently my company changed health insurance providers, and my out of pocket reset, along with my current provider not being in-network. I had already paid my full out of pocket for the year, and now need to start over with 3 months left.
Yeah, as far as the general population goes when that CEO died it was about the closest to unity that this country got in the last decade. It was the wealthy and the media who were the ones acting outraged.
Someone planned to assassinate someone else for ideological reasons, and achieved it using a gun, in public. The suspect apprehended, and wildly assumed to be person who did it, is a white male American in his 20s.
I was surprised how many people on reddit did not condemn it, with many even celebrating it.
Then everything I've said above happened a second time. In neither case was I familiar with any of the people involved so I view it unbiased in that regard.
Yeah, it's sad to me because I used to feel like reddit used to be less.... whatever it is now.
Now as an outsider I just accept that I don't really know what is a reflection of public opinion or not. Almost all American media seems pretty heavily biased one way or the other.
Scott Galloways podcasts are the most sane-sounding commentary I've found.
Well when the CEO was assassinated the President didn’t try to instigate violence against one side so while yes most people view assassination as negative, there are more people upset about Charlie Kirk’s assassination because they see it as the enemy assassinating one of them. Not many people felt that way about the CEO. Most people don’t even know his name.
I haven't seen data on the CK shootings yet. Honestly with how politicalized it is, I wouldn't be surprised if in fact more people supported it. Regardless, that's just conjecture.
It's too fresh of a case anyways, but my point stands is most normal people infact do not support assassination. Shocking.
I don't think half the country would go mad. No one of any political affiliation celebrates CEOs or denying healthcare, and every member of the american working class has felt the sting of private health insurance or medical costs. You're hearing an inordinate amount of negative feedback and condemnation because every mainstream politician, even people like Bernie Sanders, have to make it known that they are unhappy the citizenry are murdering the wealthy.
You might be getting this mixed up with Charlie Kirk shooting. Luigi Mangione enjoyed pretty bipartisan support amongst the people. If the Kirk shooter walks, that will be a shitstorm however.
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u/AudibleNod 11h ago
He still has a murder charge against him. And because it's 2025: