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.
Yes, they illegally searched his bag “because they wanted to make sure there wasn’t a bomb in it”, while in the middle of a full restaurant, and found no weapon.
It only appeared after they moved it to a second location.
Its almost like this guy is innocent
They certainly seemed to put a lot of work into making him not look that way.