GoFundMes for Luigi Mangione's Legal Defense Emerge After Police ID Him as Suspect in United Health CEO Killing: 'I Hope He Can Be Comfortable'
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GoFundMe pages are the latest example of support for Luigi Mangione, and the public's frustration with the health insurance industry.

“We are raising funds to support a critical legal defense in the fight against unchecked corporate power and a system that continues to favor the few over everyone else. This case isn’t just about one individual—it’s about challenging a status quo that protects the interest of the powerful at the expense of justice and fairness,” read one of the fundraising pages that was quickly removed by GoFundMe.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
    3·
    17 days ago

    $10,000 would be a weird thing to plant, nobody would have questioned Cocaine. That’s more money than most people his age have ever had in savings total.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      2·
      17 days ago

      It’s not that weird if you think about it. They could be trying to portray him as a flight risk since he also had his passport.

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
        2·
        17 days ago

        He already fled the state where the crime took place, seems like portraying him as a flight risk would have been easy. Are we arguing the passport was also planted?

        • Drusas@fedia.io
          11·
          17 days ago

          No, and that’s not how assessing flight risk works. I’m not saying that he necessarily isn’t a flight risk. He did have his passport on him. It just sounds like there is the possibility that law enforcement added extra “evidence” so that they could be sure he wouldn’t be let out on bail.

          • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
            3·
            17 days ago

            If money was the only difference between flight risk and not then fundamentally the concept of Bail wouldn’t make any sense.

            EDIT: It also doesn’t make sense for other reasons, but thats besides the point.