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Prosecutors highlighted “about $10,000 — $8,000 in U.S. dollars and then $2,000 in foreign currency that was found on his person,” CNN correspondent Danny Freeman said following the court hearing.

“Also they said that he had a Faraday bag,” which blocks cell signals, a move that prosecutors alleged marked “an indication of criminal sophistication and reason they should hold him on bail,” Freeman continued.

After prosecutors made the claims, Mangione said he would like to “correct two things.”

“I don’t know where any of that money came from — I’m not sure if it was planted. And also, that bag was waterproof, so I don’t know about criminal sophistication,” the suspect said in a statement that suggested police framed him.

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[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 36 points 3 days ago

People who know this shit have been through Mangione’s social media feeds.

https://shatterzone.substack.com/p/alleged-ceo-shooter-luigi-mangione

The guy likely did it. The guy's social media history puts him right in that "potential mass shooter" territory, but one more radicalized by pain rather than the right-wing shitholes of the internet.

But the part no one's talking about yet are the copycats to come. Because this guy got attention for it. Accolades even. That's part of what mass shooters want. Attention. Accolades are a wet dream for them.

At least this will be better than when they were murdering children for the shock value.


So yeah, I think "Rich asshole murdered" will become more common. If only the richest asshole in whatever Podunk little town the mass shooter was from.

And yet, I can't say that it will be a completely bad thing. If the mass shootings must happen, (and America apparently says they must) then I'd rather it be a rich asshole who bites it than a classroom full of grade schoolers.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 24 points 3 days ago

Killing one specific person and then fucking off does not, a mass-shooting, make.

[-] chaogomu@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

No, but it's the same sort of pattern that you see in mass shooters.

Disaffected young men. Educated, but with minimal meaningful job prospects. Little to no family, or no close ties.

The sort of young man who wouldn't mind dying, or killing, for a cause, even if that cause is just gaining people's attention.

In the US, those sorts of young men do all sorts of things, many live productive lives. But almost every single mass shooter is one of those young men. Luigi is one of those young men, That's why the comparison is apt.

He just decided to kill a rich asshole instead of a bunch of randos. All because his particular radicalization was via pain instead of the usual right wing internet shitholes.

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