Luigi Mangione, the man accused of fatally shooting the CEO of UnitedHealthcare in New York City and leading authorities on a five-day search, was in court Friday for the first time since his December arraignment on state murder and terror charges.
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00:00Luigi's right to a fair trial is being infringed upon because he is being publicly treated
00:14as guilty and as having the presumption of guilt as opposed to the presumption of innocence,
00:20which is what he is entitled to.
00:23I made a record in court today that I don't understand what this show of danger is for.
00:30When I go visit Luigi at MDC in Brooklyn, I sit with him, he is unshackled.
00:36He walks around freely in the visiting area.
00:39We sit in a room together without law enforcement hovering over us.
00:43But for whatever reason, here, despite all the law enforcement, they need him to be wearing
00:49this vest, they need him to be shackled, and they stand right over us and we get no
00:54time with him.
00:55So he is being treated differently because of this unusual, and frankly, just the fact
01:02that he's being prosecuted by three jurisdictions for one event.
01:06What I did not understand was how shocking it was that this week on HBO, in a documentary,
01:13I see the chief of detectives and the New York City mayor, full hair and makeup done,
01:19sitting down and giving an interview for television and talking about the evidence
01:23in Luigi's case, talking about police paperwork that we don't have, talking about forensics
01:29that we have not yet received.
01:31I guess we have now today, but I didn't when I was sitting there learning about the case,
01:35hearing an actor play Luigi, reading from a journal that they say is Luigi's, and we
01:42have yet to receive it from the prosecution.
01:46And so it's outrageous that they have time to go and prejudice Mr. Mangione's ability
01:53to receive a fair trial and go out and make these statements but not give this to us.
01:59One last thing is Luigi really wanted to thank the supporters for being here and we all appreciate
02:06it very much.
02:07Thank you so much.
02:17Stop denying!
02:20People are dying!
02:23Patients over profits!
02:28Luigi! Luigi! Luigi!
02:33Put the system on trial!
02:38One struggle, one fight!