Luigi Mangione viewed Unitedhealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s killing as ‘symbolic takedown’ of ‘parasitic’ healthcare industry: sources

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Luigi Mangione, the man suspected of assassinating UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, can be seen for the first time since his arrest earlier Monday, in video of him being led out of a cop car by police ahead of his arraignment.

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Mangione, who had the three-page handwritten manifesto on him when he was busted at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s yesterday, was likely driven to violence by his perceptions that the health care industry is “parasitic,” sources said.

Mangione, 26, may have found inspiration for his violence in “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, the extremist luddite who terrorized the country for nearly two decades by mailing deadly bombs before he was nabbed in 1996.

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