Another Knife-Wielding Maniac Charges Police In NYC, Because Progressive Utopia Is Going Great

Police had to confront and kill a knife-wielding maniac in New York City on Friday. This came just days after a different maniac went on a stabbing rampage, killing one person and wounding another in Times Square. 

City leaders remain shocked that this keeps happening while defunding the police is never off the table to leftists.

The man was first seen walking on the Brooklyn Bridge cables around 3:30 a.m. Officers scaled the bridge to talk him into coming down safely. That turned into a standoff. The man lunged at them and made threats.

“He stated, ‘I want to die, I want you to kill me, I have a bomb, you’re not going to make me do something bad to the cops,’” NYPD’s Emergency Services Unit (ESU) Assistant Chief Gerard Dowling, told reporters.

Officers spent nearly one hour asking the man to drop his weapon and come down. They tried to reason with a guy who said he wanted to die and might have a bomb. 

Then the knife-wielding man started coming down the cables. He lunged at one officer when he got within three feet. “At that point, a member of ESU who was on the roadbed of the bridge discharged his weapon one time, striking the man,” Dowling said.

The man was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead. All Brooklyn-bound lanes of the bridge shut down during peak Friday morning commute hours. 

This incident came after another knife attack in New York City on Monday. 

Erin Piacenti, a young wife and new mother who had just returned from maternity leave to her VP job at Bank of America, was stabbed and killed by a mentally disturbed woman. A handful of leftists cheered the murder because of the victim's bank position, just like they did when Luigi Mangione shot and killed Brian Thompson, a CEO for UnitedHealthcare.

Another unidentified man in the Piacenti incident was also injured and taken to the hospital. He was released on Tuesday. Police fatally shot the attacker, 49-year-old Pamela Cisneros, who was armed with two kitchen knives. Cisneros, from Queens, had previous outbursts tied to her mental state. She refused repeated commands to drop the knives when officers confronted her near an NYPD substation.

“During the encounter, she told the officers, ‘I’m not dropping anything. I would rather kill both of you.’ She repeated, ‘I will kill you,’” NYPD Chief, Jessica Tisch said during a press briefing.

Several weeks before that, there was another stabbing near Times Square. A man was stabbed in the head during an argument inside a subway station. Officials are sure the next round of sensitivity training and reduced police presence will fix everything.

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Luigi Mangione Seeks Plea Deal, Apparently Discovering That Revolutionary Courage Has Its Limits

Luigi Mangione, the alleged cowardly assassin who became an unlikely folk hero for parts of the online left, is reportedly looking for a plea deal with federal prosecutors. 

Apparently, declaring war on capitalism from behind a gun is one thing. Facing the federal justice system is another.

Mangione, who is charged with the cowardly 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is reportedly in “serious negotiations” with federal prosecutors, according to a new report. An unexpected hearing has been scheduled for Friday at 11 a.m. in Manhattan federal court, less than a month before his federal trial is scheduled to begin on September 8.

Mangione cowardly shoots Brian Thompson in the back, allegedly

According to TMZ, a potential deal could involve Mangione pleading guilty to murder in an open plea, leaving his sentence entirely up to the judge without a recommendation from prosecutors.

The federal case is going to be presided over by U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garrett, Southern District of New York. She was nominated by President Joe Biden in 2023, recommended by Sen. Chuck 'Nostrils' Schumer (D-NY), and confirmed by the Senate on a largely party-line vote (49-46, with nearly all Democrats supporting and nearly all Republicans opposing).

the left's angry heart-throb 

Her professional background includes long service as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, roles in the New York State Attorney General’s office, and serving as New York City Department of Investigation commissioner. Federal judges are officially nonpartisan, but her appointment by a leftist vegetable of a president is the primary public indicator of association.

The state case is being presided over by Justice Gregory Carro, New York Supreme Court. He was appointed by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliana, a Republican.  

By having Judge Garnett presiding and deciding the sentence, it could give the cowardly Mangione an opportunity to present mitigating factors at sentencing, including his views about healthcare, corporate greed and whatever arguments his attorneys believe might explain how those grievances supposedly contributed to the killing.

In other words, the revolutionary who allegedly decided that society needed a violent dose of his personal ideology may now be hoping the court will consider his feelings before deciding how long he should spend in prison.

And based on how the left is adjudicating crime, he may get a medal of valor for the cowardly murder of Brian Thompson.

Such a deal could potentially result in a sentence of less than life in prison and could also raise double jeopardy issues in the state case. Mangione faces additional charges in New York and Pennsylvania. Judge Gregory Carro previously dismissed the defense's double jeopardy argument as premature.

The sudden hearing follows reports that plea negotiations took place in June before stalling. Mangione's top lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, accused federal prosecutors of attempting to “prejudice” public opinion against her client.

“This information attributed to ‘anonymous sources’ is part of a troubling, deliberate pattern by prosecutors and law enforcement to prejudice Luigi, manipulate public opinion, and violate his constitutional right to a fair trial and impartial jury. Every defendant in America is presumed innocent until proven guilty, including Luigi, who has to fight the same charges twice.”

Of course, every defendant is entitled to the presumption of innocence and a fair trial. That is precisely why civilized societies have courts, judges and juries instead of allowing angry political ideologues to decide who deserves to live or die.

Brian Thompson's family

Mangione's case has nevertheless attracted an unusual amount of attention, particularly from people who appear to regard an alleged murderer as a symbol of resistance against corporate America.

On Tuesday, a judge ruled that jurors in the trial will remain anonymous because of concerns about intimidation and harassment involving witnesses and jurors. The judge also approved an overflow room for media and spectators, with both audio and video permitted.

More than 80 news organizations are expected to attend if the trial proceeds as scheduled.

For now, the alleged revolutionary has apparently reached the stage of his grand crusade where lawyers, judges and sentencing guidelines matter quite a bit.

The man who allegedly wanted to send a message to corporate America may soon be sending one to the judge instead: Please, sir, may I have less than life?

What a coward. Do you agree?

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Judge issues ruling on evidence in Luigi Mangione case

The New York judge in Luigi Mangione’s case issued a ruling on what evidence will be allowed in his upcoming trial.

The ruling settles the debate between the defense and prosecution about how police officers handled their search of Mangione after he was caught, according to Fox News.

Leave it to a New York judge to split the baby in the most ridiculous way possible. 

A New York judge has ruled that some key evidence seized from Luigi Mangione's backpack during his arrest at a Pennsylvania McDonald's is inadmissible at trial, while some of it can still be shown to jurors, including the suspected murder weapon.

Judge Gregory Carro's written ruling was posted online ahead of a hearing Monday morning. He agreed with the defense argument that a search of Mangione's backpack at McDonald's was unconstitutional because it had been moved away from arm's reach, however, he found that a subsequent search of the bag at the police station was lawful. During that search, an officer found the handgun allegedly used in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, 50. He also found that most of Mangione's statements to police in Pennsylvania would be admissible, except for some made about his alleged fake ID after police read him his Miranda warning.

A different judge, overseeing his separate federal case, has already rejected the defense team's argument that the search was improper, and the evidence will be part of his federal trial.

It includes the alleged murder weapon, a 3D-printed silencer, the fake ID used to check into a Manhattan hostel and journals purported to rail against the health insurance industry. 

Mangione is facing trial for the cowardly, fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024. The shooting sparked a manhunt that ended with Mangione’s arrest days later.After they caught up with the defendant, police searched through his backpack before obtaining a warrant. Prosecutors argued the search was legal because officers arrested him after he used false identification. They said the officers needed to make sure the bag did not contain any dangerous material before taking him into custody.

The judge set Mangione’s state murder trial for June 8. However, Mangione’s lawyers argued that this timeframe would force him to face the state and federal trials within a short period of time, like the time he allegedly took away from Brian Thompson, a husband to Paulette "Pauley" Thompson, and a father of two boys.

NBC News reported that federal prosecutors said they would not appeal a ruling that removes the death penalty as a possible punishment.

Mangione pleaded not guilty to all charges in spite of the video evidence to the contrary.

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Luigi Mangione planned mass casualty event, killed UnitedHealthcare CEO for headlines

Luigi Mangione, the dude who shot UnitedHealthcare’s CEO Brian Thompson in the back, wasn’t just out here playing vigilante, he was cooking up a full-on manifesto to torch the healthcare industry’s greedy, and it’s wilder than a fever dream in a hospital billing department. 

Court documents, per the New York Post, lay it bare: this guy’s notebook, found in his backpack when the cops snagged him at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s (because of course), reads like a pissed-off anarchist’s Reddit thread crossed with a horror flick script. He didn’t just want Thompson dead; he was this close to pulling a bombing “catastrophe” to flip the bird to the “greed-fueled health insurance cartel.” 

Yes, he said that.

Mangione’s writings are chilling, like he’s auditioning for the villain in a Saw movie. He was obsessed with making “headlines” and settled on “wack[ing] the CEO” to send a message that’d hit harder than a denied claim. “So say you want to rebel against the deadly, greed fueled health insurance cartel. Do you bomb the HQ? No. Bombs=terrorism,” he scribbled, all cool and calculated. 

Instead, he went for “wack [sic] the CEO at the annual parasitic bean-counter convention. It’s targeted and precise and doesn’t risk innocents.” That’s some ice-cold, Dexter-level planning right there.

It gets darker, because of course it does. Mangione was livid, calling out UnitedHealthcare and their ilk for “[extracting] human life force for money.” He flirted with a mass casualty event, real dark stuff, but backed off, writing he was “glad — in a way — that [he] procrastinated because it allowed [him] to learn more about UHC.” 

He scrapped a Maryland attack, saying it “would’ve been an unjustified catastrophe that would be perceived mostly as sick, but more importantly unhelpful.” Also, it would be a lot more dangerous than shooting an unarmed person in the back and he seems to be quite cowardly.

His endgame was crystal clear: “The point is made in the news headline Insurance CEO killed at annual investors conference. It conveys a greedy bastard that had it coming.” So now what does Mangione have coming after committing a cold-blooded murder just to grab headlines?

He even gamed out how the public would chew it over: “Members of the public can focus on greed, on the event through reasonable acceptable discussion.” The coward was playing 4D chess with the court of public opinion,  and get this, he name-dropped Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, giving him props but also shade: “For example, Ted K makes some good points on the future of humanity, but to make his point he indiscriminately mailbombs innocents. Normies categorize him as an insane serial killer, focus on the act/atrocities themselves, and dismiss his ideas.” Mangione’s like, “I’m not that guy, I’m smarter.”

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When the feds nabbed him, he had another note, doubling down on his lone-wolf energy: “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 I wasn’t working with anyone. This was fairly trivial, some elementary social engineering, basic [computer aided design], and a lot of patience.” 

Then he drops the mic: “I do apologize for any strife or trauma, but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.” What a POS to normalize murder.

Now his lawyers are out here tap-dancing, trying to get the notebook tossed, saying he wasn’t read his rights when they cuffed him. Good luck with that. One thing’s for damn sure: Mangione was ready to burn the whole system to the ground and kill people just to make his point. 

What do you think should happen to him?

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Compromised News Network blasted for "journalistic malfeasance" for Taylor Lorenz fawning over an alleged murderer

In spite of the fact that we all saw Luigi Mangione on a CCTV camera shoot Brian Thompson in the back, something only a would do, there is a handful of people who see him as some sort of hero for killing the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. 

But the Left has lost all sense of morality in the service of virtue signaling, and the media is complicit in this trend. 

Media watchdogs are flabbergasted that CNN, [aka the Communist News Network; aka Compromised News Network] has given a platform to Leftist lunatic Taylor Lorenz, the ex-Washington Post "reporter" who got all moist and heated discussing the murdering coward in an interview special "The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper." The piece was labeled "MisinfoNation: Extreme America," and focused on extremism's rise across the country.

The host of this leftist lunacy, Donie O’Sullivan, largely focused on far-Right figures but lumped in supporters of Mangione, who has emerged as a folk hero among the far-Left after he was arrested for the murder of Mr. Thompson, with some viewing it as retribution for the health insurance industry.

Sure, killing this man, the husband of Paulette Thompson and the father of two sons, ages 16 and 19, deserved to die because he headed an insurance company whose policies were not aligned with what Leftists believe they should be. In fact, if insurance companies aligned with the ideology of the Left, there would be no insurance policies because like any business in America, they are designed to make a profit. This is not to say that changes can be made to help those who need it most, but to kill a person for this is evil, and Taylor Lorenz deserves to lose all credibility as a human being.

During the macabre CNN primetime special Lorenz showed herself to be one of Mangione’s most outspoken supporters and actually expressed "joy," yes, joy, that this scumbag murderer brought attention to issues involving the healthcare industry, and she defended her stance.

"It’s hilarious to see these millionaire media pundits on TV clutching their pearls about someone stanning a murderer when this is the United States of America, as if we don’t lionize criminals," Lorenz told O’Sullivan.

"As if we don’t star murderers of all sorts. And we give them Netflix shows. There’s a huge disconnect between the narratives and angles a certain mainstream media pushes and what the American public feels, and you see that in moments like this," Lorenz continued before touting an audience boost for her Substack publication due to her sympathetic writings about Mangione.

Lorenz then tried to explain why the alleged murder appeals to women [especially Leftist women, especially her].

"Here’s this man who’s a revolutionary, who’s famous, who’s handsome, who’s young, who’s smart, he’s a person who seems like he’s this morally good man, which is hard to find," Lorenz said, prompting laughter from the CNN reporter.

Fox News contributor Joe Concha couldn't believe what he saw on the segment aired on CNN.

"The executives who greenlit this idea to give a lunatic like Taylor Lorenz a platform in primetime should be fired," Concha told Fox News Digital.

"As should the host who nodded along, and laughed in agreement when she complimented a cold-blooded murderer and coward like Luigi Mangione," Concha continued. "And the fact that he’s getting any praise for this, and the fact that CNN platformed somebody who appears to support him, is journalistic malfeasance."

Tim Young of Heritage Foundation Media called the clown show "morally repugnant."

"It would make sense that a morally repugnant person would support another morally repugnant person. It also makes sense that a morally repugnant network would support not only Lorenz, but air her opinion that Mangione is morally good," Young told Fox News Digital.

"This is the modern left -- if they disagree with your opinion, they want you eliminated from society by any means necessary," Young continued. "As much as I and other conservative critics of media and the left dislike opinions and actions, I could never imagine wishing physical harm on them. It’s low, it’s disgusting, and it has no place in American society."

I could go on but you get the drift. Taylor Lorenz is an execrable attention-whore and CNN is the house where people like her have an anti-American platform.

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Compromised News Network's Kaitlan Collins deletes her post promoting alleged murderer Luigi Mangione's defense fund

The CNN Jim Acosta replacement and chief White House 'correspondent' Kaitlin "Lips" Collins likely deleted a social media post after getting mucho blowback for promoting a defense fund for a scumcrumpet who was seen on video shooting Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare.

In the post on X, "Lips" showed a link to a website launched by defense lawyers for Mangione. He faces charges of first-degree murder in furtherance of an act of terrorism, stalking along with other state and federal charges in Pennsylvania and New York, where the crime occurred. The shooting of Thompson, a husband and father of two young children, took place in Manhattan last year on December 4.

Brian Thompson being shot in the back by a coward

Mangione, a smug, 26-year-old comes from a wealthy Maryland family. He was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, PA., on Dec. 9 after a multi-state manhunt.

Following his arrest, immoral followers donated over $300,000 for his legal defense, mainly due to their hatred of American big business, the health care industry, and the fact that he's a fairly good-looking alleged murderer.

Collins’ post garnered criticism from a number of users on X, including The Spectator contributing editor Stephen L. Miller who posted on X: "Real bottom of the barrel stuff. Even for @kaitlancollins,"

He also called Collins out for deleting the post with “no explanation,” saying, “guess it wasn’t White House correspondent related.”

Smug thug pose

WMAL host Larry O’Connor also had something to say about  the situation. He said that  [Collins] “used her considerable platform to promote a link for the defense fund of a cold-blooded killer.”

Yeah, but he's cute when he's angry, right?

Brian Thompson's wife and children

“She has not yet apologized nor has she posted anything else in 24 hours,” he added.

New York Times best-selling author Jack Posobiec  shared his take on Collins’ X post.

“CNN’s Kaitlan Collins promotes Luigi Mangione’s legal defense fund after Mangione [was] shown on video murdering a man in cold blood,” he posted Saturday.

Some folks on X have also suggested Collins should lose her press credentials and access to the White House.

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Mangione to waive extradition--may return to NYC today

Pretty boy alleged murderer, Luigi Mangione (he/him/zrg) is expected to waive extradition and could be returned to New York as soon as today, Thursday, according to his attorney.

Mangione will waive extradition at a hearing in Pennsylvania on Thursday morning as his mentally ill fans wave at him just to catch a fleeting glance.

Once extradition paperwork is completed, the NYPD would be allowed to transport Mangione from Pennsylvania to New York City where he will be on trail for the cowardly murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in midtown Manhattan.

Shoots Thompson in the leg and back

Mangione, 26, a Maryland native, who allegedly shot Thompson, the husband and father of two, in the leg and in the back after he fell, has been indicted on first and second degree murder the Manhattan District Attorney announced on Tuesday.

Mangione has been indicted on murder counts, including two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree; four counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree; one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, and one count of criminal possession of a forged instrument in the second degree, as per prosecutors. 

Brian Thompson

Mangione comes from a wealthy family and has hired Karen Friedman Agnifilo, a former assistant district attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, for his New York City case, Patch previously reported. 

There does not appear to be a relationship between Mangione and UnitedHealthcare, so he doesn't seem to have a personal "beef" with the company. 

"This type of premeditated, targeted gun violence cannot and will not be tolerated, and my office has been working day in and day out to bring the defendant to justice” Trump-hunting District Attorney Alvin Bragg said in a statement. I want to extend my heartfelt prayers to Mr. Thompson’s loved ones as they continue to grieve."

Apparently, Bragg's heart goes out to the Thompson family and maybe even the Mangione family.

Mangione also faces five charges in Pennsylvania as if the New York crimes weren't enough.

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Alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO murderer restrained as he tries to shout to reporters

Luigi Mangione Restrained By Deputies
As He Shouts At Crowd Before Extradition Hearing

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old social justice warrior charged in the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was restrained by multiple law enforcement officers as he tried to speak to reporters on his way to his extradition hearing on Tuesday.

As Mangione was being escorted into the building for his extradition hearing at Blair County Courthouse in Pennsylvania, he shouted, “It’s completely [inaudible in the spirit of Joe Biden] and an insult to the intelligence of the American people.” NewsNation Senior National Correspondent Brian Entin reported that Mangione said, “It’s completely an injustice,” but it’s difficult to decipher the exact quote.

Mangione has been charged with second-degree murder after being arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday. He is expected to be extradited to New York following his hearing. His charges include second-degree murder, possession of a loaded firearm, possession of a forged instrument, and criminal possession of a weapon.

According to a law enforcement source cited by CNN, Mangione was found with a manifesto where he expressed his anger towards healthcare companies, particularly targeting "United." A senior law enforcement official told The New York Times that Mangione accuses UnitedHealthcare of favoring profits over patient care.

Mangione is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League institution, where he earned a degree in computer science. Post-graduation, he briefly worked as a head counselor at a pre-college program at Stanford University before relocating to Hawaii in 2022.

In Hawaii, he worked remotely and resided in a co-working and co-living space in Honolulu. His former roommate, R.J. Martin, told CNN that Mangione had a surfing accident that left him "in bed for about a week." Martin also mentioned that Mangione claimed to have a misaligned spine.

The suspect was in regular contact with his family and friends until about six months ago when communication ceased, according to The New York Times. It seems that none of Mangione’s relatives were aware of his location until he was arrested in Pennsylvania on Monday and charged with murder.

BREAKING: Nabbed! CEO murder suspect caught in Altoona, PA

The man who is suspected of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has been captured in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The suspect is identified as Luigi Mangione and he was found with a 'ghost gun' on his person when captured. Apparently, he was identified by a McDonald's restaurant staff member who, if Mangione is successfully prosecuted, stands to make $50,000 and an additional $10,000 in reward money.

New York City Mayor Eric Adams held a presser Monday and said the suspect that “He matches the description of the identification we've been looking for” and that he is “in possession of several items that we believe will connect him to this incident.”

NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said, "The suspect was in a McDonalds and was recognized by an employee who then called local police.

"Responding officers questioned the suspect, who was acting suspiciously and was carrying multiple fraudulent IDs, as well as a U.S. passport. Upon further investigation, officers recovered a firearm on his person as well as a suppressor, both consistent with the weapon used in the murder," Tisch added.

"They also recovered clothing, including a mask consistent with those worn by our wanted individual. Also recovered was a fraudulent new Jersey ID matching the ID our suspect used to check into his New York City hostel before the shooting incident," she said. "Additionally, officers recovered a handwritten document that speaks to both his motivation and mindset."

This is a developing incident.

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