Moments after Luigi Mangione was put in handcuffs at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear.

Moments after Luigi Mangione was handcuffed at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s, a police officer searching his backpack found a loaded gun magazine wrapped in a pair of underwear.

The discovery, recounted in court Monday as Mangione fights to keep evidence out of his New York murder case, convinced police in Altoona, Pennsylvania, that he was the man wanted in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan five days earlier.

  • Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Well, if it was anybody other than st Luigi, we probably wouldn’t care as much about the technicalities. And there really are too many police officers to only hire ones that can handle all the technicalities. So the system gives them wiggle room, which is reasonable. There are lots of places where that wiggle room is clearly excessive. I am not sure if this really is one though. Hard to say for sure.