Luigi Mangione, who was arrested on suspicion of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week in Manhattan, wanted to get caught, Judge Andrew Napolitano told Newsmax on Wednesday.
Napolitano explained on "Wake Up America" that Mangione's "manifesto and the behavior after the crime is almost a confession; it's almost as if he wanted to be caught. He wants to make this statement, he wants to convey this message."
An internal New York City Police report analyzing the handwritten manifesto comes to the conclusion that Mangione considers the killing as a challenge to the corruption of the healthcare industry, according to media reports.
Napolitano pointed out that there are many signs that Mangione did not take logical steps in order to try and avoid the police or get rid of evidence, saying, "He could have taken the ghost gun and thrown it in the Hudson River, and maybe the police would find it in 10 or 15 years."
The judge said emphatically that Mangione "did want to be caught; he did want to start this conversation, which we are unfortunately having."
Napolitano added, "I say 'unfortunately,' because an innocent human being has been assassinated in order to trigger this conversation."
Napolitano lamented that "it is very unsettling to see what I see on social media … that any rational person could think this type of a murder is justified" and could even call the suspected killer a "hero."
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