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[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago

Sounds like fake ass bullshit to me.

Free Luigi yall ain't got shit no video footage nothing.

"He has read 300 books!!!!!" Is all i see from clowns supporting this regime.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

An incompetent pinjob

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

French style revolution is the only solution

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Agreed comrade! Pm me and we will begin the organization of said revolution

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Nice try, FBI.

[–] [email protected] 392 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 169 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Christ, imagine if he really was set up after all this?

Or that the charges don't stick?

[–] [email protected] 233 points 1 week ago (10 children)

People have been saying since he was announced as a suspect that he didn't look like the shooter that appeared on the cameras. He sort of looks like him but it's really not that clear cut that it's definitely him

[–] [email protected] 170 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Also it couldn't have been Luigi, he has an alibi. We were hanging out that day.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

https://www.tiktok.com/@julianas776/video/7447346194461789470

This video and this comment chain are the light in the end of the tunnel for me 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Even if he's really the shooter, imagine if they cannot prove it's him because it would showcase the immense dystopian surveillance tech everywhere in the US. So they had to pretend they got an anonymous call and plant evidence instead.

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 week ago (7 children)

He also allegedly had the manifesto with him, which makes no sense. Basically they just said "We randomly got a tip for this guy at mc donalds and he happened to have all possible pieces of evidence on him days after making a clean get away" mmm yeeah sure.....

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[–] [email protected] 247 points 1 week ago (13 children)

At this point the funniest thing would be if the real assassin was to take down another healthcare CEO.

[–] Sturgist 76 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Someone, can't remember who...so if it's you (not necessarily you OP, a general you) put your hand up, in a different Luigi thread a month or so ago had a pet theory that I think probably holds a reasonable amount of water.

The theory is that that CEO was knocked off by a paid hitman, possibly contracted by his spouse, and Luigi happened to be picked up as a scapegoat because the NYPD, or the arresting officer, was complicit/paid off a tidy sum.

With this coming up, it's even less of an unlikely scenario.

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[–] [email protected] 181 points 1 week ago (35 children)

Jokes aside, I honestly don't know if he's the guy.

What I do know, is if this part is true, that should be enough to put doubt into the "beyond a reasonable doubt" part in the jury.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Why would you believe he is the guy? The only evidence is what corrupt police said on a bullshit story. Brian Thompson was probably killed in a mob hit, dude was up to his eyeballs in illegal insider trading and embezzlement. It is far more likely that he was killed for that before he could rat or to just cover tracks.

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[–] [email protected] 173 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Well that sure is weird.

No jury Nullification needed. It looks like it really was a frame job. Can't wait to see this case unfold.

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[–] [email protected] 162 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Wow, imagine being the cop that fucked this up this hard.

[–] [email protected] 154 points 1 week ago (28 children)

I don't think they could avoid fucking it up. Planting a fucking gun isn't that easy :D

[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

I mean, I guess it depends on how late in the season you plant it and how many gun seeds you have.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Because no one else has yet commented this:

Fuck The Police.

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[–] [email protected] 127 points 1 week ago

Getting arrested in Pennsyltucky by imbreds was a genius move.

[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

Let's say that Mangione committed the crime.

My understanding is that he gave cops a fake ID when they questioned him on reasonable suspicion (the basis of which was a tip from an employee). That is something that yes, he can be arrested for. And he can be personally searched after that arrest. But at that point, he can no longer get a gun out of his bag, and cops have control of it, so he can't destroy evidence/get a weapon from it; so searching the bag should be out at that time. So, my understanding, based on case law, is that they would have needed a warrant to search it at that time, as the contents of the bag aren't related to the reason he's been arrested. You aren't supposed to be able to use a pretextural arrest to search a person's car or belongings (e.g., arrest you for suspicion of drunk driving, then search your car to find evidence of burglaries).

In theory, without the warrant, the search and everything from the search should be out. Even if he committed the crime, and kept all the evidence conveniently in his backpack, it should be completely excluded from the case. I'm sure that the DA is going to argue that there's some exception that allows a warrantless search, but I can't say what that argument will be. If the evidence is allowed in, his defense attorney is going to have to object every single time that prosecutors refer to it, for any reason, in order to preserve the option to claim that evidence was improperly admitted in an appeal. (Which they should absolutely do, if it goes that far!)

Federal rules of evidence is pretty complicated stuff. But goddamn, does it look like someone fucked up bad on a really high profile case.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Even if he committed the crime, and kept all the evidence conveniently in his backpack

Yeah, he conveniently carried around a disposable weapon used in a murder that he was wanted for, instead of disposing of it. Also he conveniently wrote a manifesto related to the murder and carried that around in his backpack as well.

Nothing suspicious here. Move along.

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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

Goes to show how much this isn't about Luigi, or even Brian Thompson. It's about the elite sending a message to the other 99%. Think, even if their case against Luigi is rocky at best, all that matters is they can get him to pay for Brian, regardless of whether he did it or not, or where the evidence points.

All that matters is that we the "peasants" get the underlying message:

  • If you kill/harm an elite they'll chase you and make you pay with the full weight of their resources (and emphasis on "resources", not necessarily "law").
  • If you did not kill or harm an elite you're still at risk, because then they'll choose a "peasant" scapegoat to pay anyway.

All that matters is that they get to take their pound of flesh, and that the "peasantry" gets discouraged to fight for their rights as the elite takes, and takes and takes.

Which is why it's so important that regardless of Luigi having done it or not, he should walk free unless there's solid, undeniable evidence of him doing it, like an actual and verified non-deepfake video of the assassination with his clear face on it. And even then he must only face the consequences the law demands, and what others would face in his place for killing the everyday average Joe. The fact that the life lost was an elite should have no bearing on the consequences.

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Something that needs to be considered is the possibility of parallel construction in the arrest and alleged evidence

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago

I love the smell of "Reasonable Doubt" in the morning

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