In the midst of biting wind and bluster stripes of snow, a group of autonomous activists projected a large and sacred illustration of accused UnitedHealthcare CEO -Schieter Luigi Mangione on a Lower Manhattan building Thursday, February 20, called for a fair trial for Friday on Friday On Mangione on Friday. afternoon.
Have promised not guilty 11 State accusations of murder and terrorism Days after his extradition in New York at the end of December last December, Mangione will appear today in the constitutional court for what a routine status check should be on the case.
Indicated in the center of the enormous projection at the intersection of channel and Lafayette streets, the words “free luigi” have been sung, registered, Gebrade, Meme’d and commercialized. Prior to the arrest of Mangione in Altoona, Pennsylvania, Brian Thompson’s shooting of UnitedHealthcare, avid conversations about exorbitant medical healthcare costs, the annoyance and desperation of refused claims and the ethics of disease care companies that determine the need for the necessary patient care.
At the age of 26, Mangione himself became a suspect of celebrities in his arrest and time in custody. His mugshot in Pennsylvania was interspersed with hundreds of photos of his student days, time lived in Hawaiʻi, and international journeys in memes, thirst and thinking, some compare him with a Christian saint or even Jesus himself, as in the sculpture Used in yesterday’s projection.
Photos of Mangione’s 19 December bedside walk in New York City exploded in popularity online, because the compositions and color schemes Mangione further compared to a Christ-like orphan from the medieval or Renaissance art history. During his performance of December 23, Mangione’s lawyer Karen Friedman Agnifilo Bladdered the procedureClaiming that her customer “could be seen for everyone to see in the greatest staged Perp walk that I have ever seen in my career.”
Friedman Agnifilo raised attention to the decision of Mayor of New York City, Eric Adams to attend the Perp walk, referring to his Previous statement The press: “I want to look him in the eyes and say that” you have performed this terrorist act in my city, the city, the city of New York. “
“The mayor must know more than someone of the suspicion of innocence that he is also offered to deal with his own problems,” argued Friedman Agnifilo, claiming that the public attention and assumption of Mangione’s fault can influence the law From her client on a fair trial.
Mangione did not have a plea on federal charges at this stage.
