Performative Perp Walk

I think they want to intimidate others, but honestly giving him this much of a spotlight should be the dream of anyone thinking about attacking another CEO for attention.
- I don't see how they don't see it.
  
  Maybe the cops are playing both sides? I'm definitely giving them too much credit there, but maybe?
  
  Because their jobs financing is mostly perception based.
  Crime can be at an all time low, but all it takes is a politician to rile up the population about murderers and law enforcement and incarceration will end up getting more money.
  Be seen as being ineffective, soft or incompetent, especially by those holding the purse strings, and people lose jobs to those who will toe the line.
  This is a message to the wealthy “look how seriously we take serving you”
  
  This is the same country that tries to fight radicals in other countries by invading, oppressing, and ultimately creating more radicals. Our elite have little understanding of the socially deviant
  
  They rather kill defenseless children.
  
  I have had a lot of opportunities to post this lately, so here we go again:
  New York City cops... they ain't too smart.
- They are probably also scared of people trying to free him since he is quite popular. This isn't generally the case for other suspects.

Pigs when other pigs choke people to death: I sleep
Pigs when someone touches a mass murdering elite: Real shit
- Pigs when someone touches the guy who pays their off-the-books salary: Real shit
  Ftfy

- Cause they only care when rich scum are terrorized.
- Who controls the present now controls the past.
- Terrorism is supposed to be the dogmatic or ideologically motivated killing of civilians, often by those who are willing to die in the process. It's terror inducing because it could seemingly happen anywhere at any time to any one, and it's a lot easier to cause harm to others when you're suicidal and not trying to get away with it.
  Of course, that's not how it's routinely used, or perhaps was ever really used by anyone except academics.
- Not even killed, but even just made to think their plundering might have consequences.
- If it's politically motivated I'm pretty sure it's terrorism.
  
  The NY charge calls for a specific action taken against a government entity.
  Unless UHC is part of the government, but corporations as government is Musolini style fascism, and the US isn't a fascist country, right?
  
  But is it politically motivated?
  He was pissed his claim was denied.
  
  'Terrorism' is just a word for anything the state doesn't like.
  
  Is the second guy who tried to shoot trump being charged with terrorism? Because that was politically motivated.
  If he’s not, Luigi also does not deserve the charge.

I love that Adams is there. He literally has no reason to be there other than self promotion. Do you think they discussed the finer points of being indicted federally? Maybe he is trying to get him to ask for a Trump pardon.
- “look at what this man did, not what i’ve done!”
  -adams, prob
- I guess he's trying to learn more about prison life before he gets his own perp walk.
- He is absolutely doing this to appease trump. Dude is getting hit with terrorism charges here to set up precedent for trump to do whatever the fuck he wants.

I never liked those shoes. They are like a bad knock off of toms. Somehow they even make shittier crocs for jails as well... I remember walking into a Walmart and a guy being like "yo when did you serve" as I was buying a pair of entnies (didn't know they sold them there, but they were like $25) to finish my 19 mile walk home. Wasn't sure how he knew at first, then realized he remembered those shitty shoes as well.
(Things not to do in life, get pulled out of bed in the middle of the night by police wearing no shoes and forced to walk across a stone driveway.)
Innocent until proven guilty time and time again proves to be not how our system works. Alleged charges were dismissed and expunged. The impact on my life, not able to be taken back.
- Yeah, the criminal justice system in the U.S. causes immeasurable harm. From a probation system designed to keep you in the system, to kids-for-cash-like schemes that I'm convinced are more common than has been prosecuted, to coercive delay tactics. All of which I have personal experience with. I've currently been out on bail for 2 years, and someone else in my county has been in jail without trial for 5 years because he can't afford bail. Not to mention the horrible conditions in many jails and prisons, slave labor, nearly complete lack of rehabilitation, and the system milking the incarcerated's families for money. I can't think of any other word to describe it than evil.
  
  I worked government contracts in IT for the last 10 years mostly. After the allegation I failed 3 background checks coming back saying conviction when the case was retired and moved to be dismissed. My entire career was shot save for a 9 month contract I got where they overroad the background check with a lawyers response showing it was a false response on the conviction and due to costs I have literally nothing left. After lawyers and shit... 0 savings, 0 401k, contract over now, took a job for a distributor for a well known brand to pay bills... No background check. Even Kroger's background check failed me when the case has already been dismissed. It destroyed my life, and I did nothing.
  
  How much is the guy's bail? If you throw money at it, I will too. It's your duty to your fellow man for equity. It's probably more than we can afford but I'm just thinking. Maybe we can seed a fund.
- I'm currently reading Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream which is a short story by Stephen King about an innocent person accused of a crime. He had a similar line about "whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty?"
  
  That's the fun part about that picture above, that is a picture of how they treat an innocent man. He hasn't been convicted of anything. They never would have had all new oranges like that for him if it wasn't for the number of cameras they knew would show up.
- I went to sentencing for a misdemeanor and all I took in my pockets were like 10 quarters for the phone because I knew I was only in a couple days or week max but they let you out when they feel like it. My girlfriend was going to come get me when I got out. This wasn't totally before cell phones but I didn't have one at the time.
  They took my quarters when I got to jail.
  Break for Pro-Tip: if you know you're going to jail, even just for the night or until you make bail and not gen pop, don't take any money if you can avoid it. They call it the "jail fee" and steal all your paper money (or quarters in my case). I once hid my cash in my sock when I knew I was going to drunk tank and the guy was going through my wallet. He asked me where was my money. I told him I threw it out the window of the police car. Back to the story.
  I couldn't believe they took my fucking phone quarters. They let me out in the middle of the night in December. There were two COs getting off work and I tried to beg a couple quarters to use the phone. They just laughed at me. I didn't bring a jacket or anything, it was warmish when I went to court. By now it's about 40 degrees. Lucky I guess, back then it got a lot colder a lot more often.
  So I start walking. It's 10 miles. Try to hitchhike for a while then give up. It starts raining. This is the point where I considered laying down in the ditch to die. I realized it would take too long to die and kept on. Nobody walking on the road. This is a state road that runs beside the highway and doesn't have much on it. I went into a gas station to try to use their phone and they told me to fuck off. I went into a McDonald's and they let me get a free water. I ended up walking to my girlfriend's apartment which was about 16 blocks closer than my place. I walked in, climbed into bed and she woke up saying what the fuck why didn't you call me?
  
  Man, what assholes.
  I was at a "know your rights" training thing for protesters and activists, and one of the things that they covered is that a super important and low risk thing way to support a large protest is to have people sort of "on guard" nearby the police station, ready to receive and support someone who was arrested, because the police like to release people at stupid times of night (especially if they're salty that they don't have enough evidence to charge you for a crime). In most cases though, (such as yours), there's no-one to provide this support, and then you're fucked.
  I hadn't realised how prevalent this spitefulness was until this part of the training , where multiple people shared experiences of this sort. I was already on team ACAB as it was.
  I'm glad you made it home safe.
  
  I hate that not only do I believe you I'm not even surprised.
- Wait etnies are prison shoes? They are by far my favourite brand of shoes lol
  
  I was buying $25 etnies from Walmart on a walk home from jail wearing the knock off Toms jail shoes.
  Hard to tell in the picture but if you zoom in you can see them, the way his toe is lifted makes the bottom look larger(white area) than they really are. (Some would call them bath shoes for jails)
- https://youtube.com/shorts/JFJYMBPfTn4
  Because someone can get rich(er) off others suffering
  
  Comically enough I took a 3 month contract with a company a couple years back. They run private prisons around the U.S. I left and didn't extend or take a position for what some would say are "woke" ideals. But one of the reasons was that if a doctor has their medical license suspended for malpractice, I found out they are ALLOWED to practice medicine in private prisons. So some of the worst doctors who do nefarious shit would get suspended for it, and they would take a job for the prison systems to make money and not be investigated by proper review boards until they could get their standing back. I know this because I would have to verify errors in their systems pertaining to drug prescription purchases that would be illegal to send to any other doctor in the U.S., but would be allowed there.

They sure do love taking and posting pictures of him and then yelling at people to not give him any press. How many pics have we seen of him in custody? They dont want coverage of him silenced, they want to control that narrative. US justice system is a sad broken dishonest state of affairs.
- Every day Trump walks free has been sad proof of that

Lotta cops for a little kid with a busted back
- He was a lone wolf and they're acting like the Mafia might come to free him any moment
  
  Mafia should do something useful for once
  
  Honestly the mafia should free him. Why not? Insurance companies are impeding on the mafias protection racket lol.
- They acting like the whole country wants to kill him when it's the complete opposite.
  
  Yeah, the thing that's shocked me is how my most capitalist liberal friends are in agreement he did nothing wrong. Like some of them are even agreeing when I use the phrase "class warfare"

If they bring out a regiment to guard your show trial you're almost certainly on the right side of history.
Probably.
90%
- Right side of History, sure, but,
  For it’s the end of history
  It’s caged and frozen still
  There is no other pill to take
  So swallow the one
  That made you ill
  
  you know, that the end of history crap is what that song criticizes, making it a really strange way to reply to someone saying something is on the right side of history.

They're really telling on themselves. Scared shitless.
- That's what bothers me. The government is like 'the memes about him aren't true, he's nothing special. It's just murder'
  Then they turn around and prosecute saying 'this isn't just murder! Look at all the memes! This needs to be enforced like the special event it is'
  You can't have your cake and eat it too. The judicial branch has been downplaying it as a simple murder. One man mad at another man. Nothing more. Cool. Then prosecute it as such.
  The inconsistent words jeopardize the faith in the system. Neo Nazi lynches a man to prove a point to an entire race that they are not safe... Murder, not terrorism.
  Guy kills a CEO over his personal issues with treatment with no master plan or manifesto? That's a terrorist?
  The public needs consistency or we lose trust in the system.
  
  Guy kills a CEO over his personal issues with treatment with no master plan or manifesto? That's a terrorist?
  Assuming the evidence found is legit and Luigi is the shooter, this is false. He never had UHC and he appeared to target them because they’re the biggest and deny the most.
  The issue is the terrorism charge is about government not private business so the government is telling on itself that it considers private business to be one in the same.
  
  or we lose trust
  Huh, first time?

I love this place. Post anything about this on reddit and it's likely to be removed if it gets too positive or the bots downvote it.
- Reddit is a place to promote product. This isn't product. Give it time and big lemmy servers will turn into reddit, but for now we get to enjoy a safe space.
  
  Thankfully, because of the way Lemmy is built, we will forever have smaller communities that don't turn into garbage like that.
- That's some insane bullshit.

Put it on an album cover!
- Is the fucking Mayor of New York in that picture? Wtf this just surreal. Our fucking hero being perp walked like this.
  
  Fascinating that he’s right behind him. Perfect photo op. Isn’t he accused of crimes right now? Or just his close associates?
- Slap a CEO ADVISORY WARNING on it
- This could totally be an album cover
- Looks like a new ratm cover.
  
  Damn. That'd be so rad. That would be a bold mf'n ratm album indeed.
- Anyone got the original high res photo?

Can we stop having school shooters and make this a trend instead? 🙏🏾

This just make him look more like a hero that's oppressed by the government.

Saint Luigi of Baltimore.
- Saint Luigi of Wall Street

I mean, Jaquim Phoenix's Joker did... what? Kill Jay Leno on air? Luigi is definitely in the top 3 Jokers, way above Leto and Phoenix.
- He also was the center of the riot at the end of the movie that led to Martha and Thomas Waynes dying.
  
  Ledger's Joker literally destroyed mafia from inside while Batman was crying the whole time.

They needed that many guys because they were afraid of him

I saw this on the news and honestly wondered how many cops are required for this prisoner transfer? Because all those people are getting paid to walk a guy past cameras, and they're probably all getting paid more than me, and there's SO many of them
- "Ah, yep, absolutely doing work here. Work, work, work. Dangerous work. Don't defund us and here's the evidence to support why."
  Multiple U.S. Police Departments Probably
  
  These pigs billed six hours of overtime for the ten minute walk no doubt.
- Probably overtime for all of them too. These low IQ "heroes" all have boats and RVs which arent going to pay for themselves.
  
  Yeah the brownshirts get perks to make them feel better than the proletariat. They rub elbows with the bourgeoisie, and occasionally with the oligarchs, making them feel like part of the in-group. Meanwhile the bourgie think of them as disgusting necessary idiots and the oligarchs think of them as filthy trained dogs.

There's 2 possible reasons to have "military" escort. either...
They must protect the perp from assassination.
They must prevent mob from liberating him.
- I mean both really
  
  Ain't no one assassinating him.
- That's why they all had armor and he didn't. It is number 2.
  
  There is a vibe for caption of "are we the baddies?" to this.

Brian Thompson pleaded guilty to drunk driving in 2017, the same month he became CEO.
- Damnnn that is one interpretation of drunk driving. "officer, you don't understand, drunk driving putting everyones life and freedom at risk is what makes us human
  
  Buying a second house for your estranged wife is very normal. I’ve got tons of very real, normal human friends that buy their wives second houses because divorce would cost more than a second house.
  The person is very human, yes.
- No wonder he thought he knew better than doctors - his penmanship was for shit.
  
  I write in block letters and he is a shit writer.

What a joke.
Missed opportunity to give him a muzzle.
- Oh fuck, I think that would have caused Trump to want to pardon him since he's obsessed with Hannibal
  
  Trump's obsession with Hannibal is a thousand times funnier when you realize it's because he doesn't know the difference being political asylum and a mental asylum.
- And wheel him around tied to a hand truck. Cops cant do much of anything right.

There goes my hero ...
- watch him as he goes...

So when Netflix made a film adaptation of 13 Reasons Why they called in specialists to try and make it tasteful. What happened was they were faxed a list of shit NOT TO DO, only some dumbass in charge of production mistook it for a list of "THINGS YOU ABSOLUTELY SHOULD DO! DO IT! IT'LL BE FUNNY!", leading to outrage from said professionals who then pondered why they were consulted at all if they were going to be so blatantly ignored and a spike of suicides that coincided with release of the thing. Ya know cause glorifying suicide to a bunch of suicidal people is probably not going to end well.
Anyway, when that guy got fired from Netflix, I'm sure he got hired for the Dark Cabal that writes the talking points for the mass media.
Because they definitely sent him a list of "Shit not to do, because if you did it it would just make Luigi into even more of a Modern Day Robin Hood" and he proceeded to mistake it for a "Definitely do this, because it'll totally get people to mourn Brian Thomspon." list
- That seems too simplified. Could you point me to where i could read more about this story? Can't seem to find anything about this advice from specialists
  
  From the fact that the person repeats it in the same comment due to forgetting they already said that joke, we can safely assume it is made up
  
  It was just a joke. The part about them hiring that guy for this spin I mean.
  Netflix really did do the "13 Reasons Why" fuck up

I'm curious if they're actually doing this out of concern that people might try to break him free.
- “The security around Mangione today is because of what they’ve been seeing in terms of the public support for him and their security worries about somebody not trying to attack him, but to try and free him from law enforcement,” CNN chief law enforcement and intelligence analyst John Miller said.
  
  See, it's not for publicity! Eric Adams is there to stop the public from freeing Luigi from law enforcement!
  
  The state trial against Mangione will come before his federal trial, prosecutors said.
  WTF? I never heard about federal charges-- isn't that double jeopardy?
  Like the reporter said, they might be trying to make it so there are no copycats, but they clearly don't understand the number of people that wouldn't want to be making it out alive. Their trumped up charges aren't a deterrent.
  If I were USian, I'd be mega-pissed that they are making the CEO's death out like Luigi killed the king.
- When asked, that's probably what the police would say as justification. And it sounds almost plausible, until you realize that's the mayor behind him.

Now we know what terrorizes those weaklings.
- You know what? If they want to turn him into a martyr, I want to turn him into a saint. St. Luigi of Baltimore. In fact, I want to erect a big statue of him, something deliberately over the top and in bad taste. Like how Dante wrote his political enemies into Hell.
  Think of the classical paintings and statues of St. Michael casting Satan into Hell.
  I want to crowd fund a big bronze statue like this. Except Luigi is St. Michael and Thompson is Satan. Thompson can be holding a scroll that reads "delay deny depose."
  I say we put a gaudy statue like this somewhere near United Healthcare's headquarters in Minnesota. Just this classical bronze of their former CEO as the Devil himself, being thrown into literal Hell by St. Luigi of Baltimore. Make them drive past the damn thing every day on the way to the office.
  The dedication on the plinth can read "In Memory of St. Luigi of Baltimore. Tear down this monument when Americans no longer die from lack of healthcare."
  The bastards want to make him a martyr? I say we make him a SAINT.
  
  Start a gofundme, do it
  
  Dope illustration. Change the faces. Change the sword to a homemade silenced ghost gun and change whatever's being scattered by Michael into pills.
  Edit- looked closer- change the chains held by Michael into him scattering pills and money.
  It's the start of an idea. I'm no artist somebody run and do it!
  
  I want to crowd fund a big bronze statue like this. Except Luigi is St. Michael and Thompson is Satan.
  I'd pitch in for it.
  
  Oh I like this idea.
- The better one's life is, the more scared they are to lose it.
  Enough of the general public is finally crossing the line we've been pushed towards for decades.
  France around and find out.
  
  The problem with constantly robbing the poor is that the poor eventually run out of things to lose.

That mix tape looks 🔥

Trying to make themselves look like they’ve done something amazing.
- they made someone look amazing allright

All they’re doing is making him look like a badass. They need enough cops to suppress Superman if he turned bad.
The managerial class really is terrified, huh?
- If the cops arrested Superman it wouldn't be because he went bad.

Oh Eric Adams can fuck all the way off. They all can, tbh, but especially him.

Jesus on his way to be crucified because he spoke up for poor people

There's like four or five dudes pushing 7ft in this pic
- Dude on the far right is up on the curb. But the big fella in the middle is indeed a big fella.
  
  Pretty sure all those dudes are on the far right.
  
  Holy shit now that you mention it, homeboy is massive.

Waiting for someone to do a slow mo version of the vid with a soundtrack. Alas, I suck at such things.
- Waiting for W I D E Luigi walking
- AI got your back

Reminds me of the scene at the end of The Blues Brothers.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Atks5rRqQkg&t=24s&pp=2AEYkAIB
Hut, hut, hut
- Lmao at the guy repelling "hut hut hut hut"

I’m gonna steel man this one and state that those officers are there to protect him more than protect others from him. That’s why school shooters have fewer officers escorting them, because who the fuck cares if somebody murders those monsters.
- …they’re upset everyone is cheering for this guy. Are they worried a CEO or 1% is going to shoot him? lol everyone else loves him.
- It's all for show. You can tell because that's the mayor of NYC right behind him.