Brand new reports could be shedding light on a potential motive for the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson who is believed to have been murdered by Luigi Mangione, a suspect recently taken into custody by law enforcement. According to Breitbart, Mangione suffered from “debilitating pain” and underwent surgery on his back just last year.
A report from the New York Times revealed the details concerning Mangione’s back issues and surgical procedure while People magazine reported that an acquaintance of his, R.J. Martin, met him in 2022 and observed he was suffering pain so intense that he had to “switch out his mattress” in order to get relief.
Martin owned a co-living space where Mangione stayed January to June 2022. The Honolulu Civil Beat noted Martin indicated Mangione “suffered chronic back pain from an apparent pinched nerve.” The Associated Press quoted Martin’s spokesman, Josiah Ryan, saying, “[Mangione] went surfing with R.J. once but it didn’t work out because of his back.” CNN quoted Martin saying, “[Mangione] never once talked about guns, never once talked about violence.”
Martin then went on to say, “He was absolutely a not violent person, as far as I could tell.”
Mangione was taken into custody in an Altoona, Pennsylvania, McDonald’s Monday, after being recognized from the photos that had been released by law enforcement. Breitbart News noted police found a handwritten note in his possession which allegedly said, “These parasites had it coming.” A source within law enforcement told the AP the handwritten note in Mangione’s possession also said, “To the Feds, I’ll keep this short, because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anyone.”
Is it possible the stress and anxiety from the back pain may have triggered an unknown mental illness, such as schizophrenia, that ultimately led to a dramatic shift in Mangione’s personality? This sort of thing is known to happen. It’s quite possible there’s some sort of issue going on psychologically that drove this young man, who had everything in the world going his way, to suddenly decide to murder someone. No matter what may ultimately turn out to be his reason for killing Thompson, it was evil and he should be held accountable for his actions.
Sickeningly, many liberals have celebrated the death of Thompson like the vile terrorists they really are.
Here’s more from Yale Insights:
In the aftermath of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s murder in Midtown Manhattan, the most popular posts on social media are ones which express support if not ecstasy over the brazen assassination. In fact, UnitedHealthcare’s own bereavement message online was cruelly mocked by 77,000 laughing response posts, SNL ran into massive viewer blowback after they ran a skit mocking the response to the murder, and the etchings on the cold-blooded murderer’s bullet casings of “deny, defend, depose” have become rallying cries for many, all while the investigation of the cold-blooded murder has been impeded by those sympathetic to the murderer’s outrage.
I have studied CEO and business leadership for 40 years, and such dancing on the grave of a murdered business executive is one of the most abhorrent things I have ever seen. This vitriol and violence against business and business leaders is plainly un-American.
It’s absolutely possible that Thompson did unethical things. If he did, he should have been held accountable by a trial overseen by a jury of his peers as guaranteed in the Constitution, not executed by a mentally ill vigilante. That’s not how a nation under the rule of law operates.
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