A man being held in connection to the Manhattan shooting of a health insurance executive reportedly had a manifesto claiming violence was the answer to problems with the health care industry.

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    10 days ago

    Time to make sure everyone in America understands what jury nullification is.

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        9 days ago

        It would be interesting to see this take the direction of “Jury Nullification of CEO Assassin trial > Supreme Court makes Jury Nullification no longer a thing, letting Judges dismiss it and make the decision themselves > CEO Assassin is retrialed and executed”

        Especially the reaction afterwards would be interesting.

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    Luigi Mangione was taken into custody at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania. CNN quoted law enforcement sources as saying a document seized off of him reads, “These parasites had it coming.”

    Another comment in the document read, “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.”

    Not a lawyer, but isn’t this circumstantial at best? Unless there’s more to the document than this.

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    Did this guy want to be caught? Walking around with incriminating objects, walking into a McDonalds instead of laying low.

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    From wired

    On X, what appears to be his account featured an image of what looks to be an X-ray following major spinal cord surgery, one of the few explicit references to health care in his online account history.

    A GoodReads account featuring a photo of the suspect that also shares a username with an email address and GitHub account linked to Mangione includes several books related to back pain, including Crooked: Outwitting the Back Pain Industry and Getting on the Road to Recovery.

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      9 days ago

      Thanks for sharing that. He sounds so normal and relatable. I wish the best for him.

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    Lol, they are throwing thr first guy that looks remotely close to the shooter behind bars to take a victory lap. Typical police.