Law enforcement might be giving props to the McDonald’s worker who called the police on Luigi Mangione, but his supporters aren’t having it — and they’re letting off steam on the restaurant’s Yelp page, according to a new report by TMZ.
As we previously reported, Mangione got busted Monday at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, and just hours later, the Manhattan D.A. hit him with a murder charge for the December 4th shooting that left UnitedHealthCare CEO, Brian Thompson dead. After his arrest, the Yelp page for the Altoona location has been flooded with Mangione’s fans, who’ve bombarded it with bad reviews and some pretty wild A.I. images — all centered around rats.
It got so out of hand that Yelp had to step in and shut down the comments section, adding a note saying the page had been flooded with bogus reviews.
Mangione, one of six siblings, finished at the top of his class as valedictorian at the Gilman School in Baltimore, where he also played soccer, according to the New York Post. After high school, he expressed plans to pursue a degree in artificial intelligence at the University of Pennsylvania.
Social media profiles linked to Mangione suggest that he held anti-capitalist views, frequently sharing quotes from Ted Kaczynski, the infamous “Unabomber,” who criticized the medical industry.
According to law enforcement sources cited by the New York Post, Mangione followed anti-capitalist and climate change movements online and expressed strong criticism of the U.S. healthcare system.
When he was arrested on Monday, Mangione was reportedly carrying a “manifesto,” law enforcement officials revealed to the New York Times.
In the alleged manifesto, Mangione reportedly stated: “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. This was fairly trivial: some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience. The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and To Do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.
A reminder: the US has the #1 most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly #42 in life expectancy. United is the [indecipherable] largest company in the US by market cap, behind only Apple, Google, Walmart. It has grown and grown, but as our life expectancy? No the reality is, these [indecipherable] have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allwed them to get away with it. Obviously the problem is more complex, but I do not have space, and frankly I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument.
But many have illuminated the corruption and greed (e.g.: Rosenthal, Moore), decades ago and the problems simply remain. It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”