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.
That’s literally not how depraved heart murder works.
The CEO of a Waterpark (schlitterbahn) was arrested for murder after a child died by decapitation on a slide because he’d paid off people who were hurt on it previously to keep quiet so they wouldn’t have to shut down the ride. He didn’t know for sure that particular child would die, or whether anyone would die at all. But he was so indifferent to the known danger that it counted as motive.
Johnson ordered his people to deny millions of medical procedures the patients were entitled to. He absolutely knew people would die, even if he didn’t know any specific person would.
Two entirely different scenarios won’t equate to the same outcome regardless of how much you’d like them to.
One is an illegal payoff that implies an acknowledgement of guilt- the other is a denial of non-mandated service that caused death.
In the US, you are not required by federal law to have Health Insurance. Therefore, denying health insurance services is NOT illegal! So whichever one of you ignorantly tried to tie a Deprived Heart Murder (aka: “reckless endangerment”) to the CEO of a health insurance company, needs to learn how criminal law works, and also should have looked to see if there’s even precedence in a case such as this.
(Yeah… There isn’t by the way)
Now, I’m done arguing this with you. You’re forcing an outcome based on an emotional response, and I’m logically trying to lead you to what is factually true, despite it being something you don’t want to accept.
You want to deny reality- be my guest, but know that bad faith comparisons to force an inaccurate outcome waste time and dilute the water of reasonable discussion.