« on: February 21, 2025, 05:46:11 pm »
Luigi Mangione draws crowd to court for first hearing since arraignment in UnitedHealthcare killingAPBy MICHAEL R. SISAKFebruary 21, 2025NEW YORK (AP) — The defendant wore a bulletproof vest and shackles. A woman in the crowd wore a “Free Luigi” scarf. Outside, throngs of people cheered and chanted his name.So it went Friday at a pretrial hearing for Luigi Mangione, the man accused of gunning down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson outside a New York City hotel on Dec. 24.Mangione, who has become something of a cause célèbre for people upset with the health insurance industry, made his first court appearance since his Dec. 23 arraignment on state murder and terror charges.Mangione, 26, didn’t speak during the hearing. Judge Gregory Carro ordered him to remain handcuffed, calling it a security measure. Mangione’s lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, argued that the sight of the defendant in shackles in the closely watched case was robbing him of his presumption of innocence.Carro set another hearing for June 26 but did not schedule a trial date.Mangione’s state case is slated to go to trial before a parallel prosecution on federal charges that could carry the possibility of the death penalty. The maximum sentence for the state charges is life in prison without parole.(more)https://apnews.com/article/unitedhealthcare-ceo-killing-luigi-mangione-nyc-trial-6f78130942141c58a480337b563f23a1
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You cannot "COEXIST" with people who want to kill you.
If they kill their own with no conscience, there is nothing to stop them from killing you.
Rational fear and anger at vicious murderous Islamic terrorists is the same as irrational antisemitism, according to the Leftists
