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ALTOONA, Pennsylvania — Luigi Mangione, the suspect charged with murder in the shooting of a top UnitedHealth executive, briefly struggled with officers and angrily shouted while being escorted into a Pennsylvania courthouse on Tuesday, as a clearer picture of his motives began to emerge a day after his arrest ended a massive manhunt. Mangione, 26, turned toward a group of reporters and yelled in part, “... completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people!” before deputies pushed him away. It was not clear to what he was referring. At the court hearing, his defense lawyer told a judge that Mangione would oppose extradition to New York, where he is charged with murder and other crimes. That decision could delay the process by weeks but is unlikely to block his eventual transfer; for now, Mangione will remain in jail in Pennsylvania, where he faces gun and forgery charges. His attorney, Tom Dickey, said at a news conference that Mangione planned to plead not guilty to the charges. Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealth’s insurance arm, one of the largest health insurers in the U.S., was shot dead last Wednesday morning outside a hotel in Manhattan in what police said was a targeted attack, sparking a manhunt that led to Mangione’s arrest. More clues about his possible motivation were coming to light on Tuesday. When arrested, Mangione was in possession of a handwritten manifesto that offered insight into his mindset, according to police. The New York Times reported that an internal New York City Police report analyzing the document concluded that Mangione viewed the killing as a justified response to what he believed to be corruption in the health care industry. “These parasites simply had it coming,” the manifesto said, according to the Times. Mangione suffered from chronic back pain that limited his daily life, according to friends, his social media postings and other news reports. His profile on X shows a background image of an x-ray with what appears to be screws and plates inserted in a lower back. An employee at TrueCar told Reuters that Mangione worked at the car-buying website as a data engineer from 2022 to late 2023. In mid-2023, Mangione took about two months off for what the employee’s manager described as back-related issues. The employee, who asked not to be named, described Mangione as “incredibly smart” and very friendly to his co-workers. He said that the company offered employees health insurance through UnitedHealth as well as other choices, such as Aetna. From January through June 2022, Mangione lived at the Surfbreak co-living community in Honolulu, where he led a book club and surfed, hiked and rock-climbed, the founder of the group, R.J. Martin, told the Hawaiian outlet Civil Beat. Martin said Mangione had suffered back pain caused by misaligned vertebrae pinching Mangione’s spinal cord, and he left for the mainland at some point for surgery. But he went “radio silent” in June or July, Martin told Civil Beat. Mangione never showed any indication of violence, Martin later told MSNBC. “The Luigi that I knew is completely incompatible with an assassin,” he said, describing him as funny, kind and thoughtful. At one point, Mangione suggested Surfbreak’s book club read the manifesto of Ted Kaczynski — the U.S. domestic bomber known as the Unabomber — as a joke, according to Martin. On the book-themed social media site Goodreads, a poster with Mangione’s name praised Kaczynski’s book “Industrial Society and Its Future” as “prescient” about modern society, called him an “extreme political revolutionary” and suggested violence was a legitimate form of resistance in some circumstances. Mangione was spotted at a McDonald’s on Monday by an employee who thought he looked like the gunman in surveillance images released by police. Mangione, an Ivy League graduate who was also the valedictorian of a private all-boys school in Maryland, had a loaded ghost gun — an untraceable firearm assembled from parts — and a silencer, officials said on Monday. Both the weapon and his clothing closely resembled those used by the gunman. He also had multiple fake identifications, including a fraudulent New Jersey ID that matched the one used by the gunman to check into a Manhattan hostel days before the shooting, according to authorities. Mangione’s family released a statement saying they knew only what had been reported in the media. “Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest,” the family said in a statement posted to the X account of Maryland lawmaker Nino Mangione. “We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved.” The gunman managed to elude capture for days after the attack last Wednesday outside the Hilton hotel in midtown Manhattan. Thompson’s killing unleashed a wave of frustration from Americans struggling to afford medical care and those who have been denied claims or care. Thompson, a father of two, had been CEO of UnitedHealthcare since April 2021, part of a 20-year career with the company. He had been in New York to attend the company’s annual investor conference.None
Credit: Matt Golding To submit a letter to The Age , email letters@theage.com.au . Please include your home address and telephone number. No attachments, please include your letter in the body of the email. See here for our rules and tips on getting your letter published. Wave the GP off Melbourne has hosted the Formula 1 Grand Prix for 28 years. It’s time to let it go. It’s environmentally unfriendly, expensive and noisy. Besides, the $130 million of government money could be used in schools and hospitals in Victoria. Linelle Gibson, Williamstown Liveability in peril How about Carl of Collingwood, Francis of Fitzroy and/or Peter of Preston? The Karens of Brighton are not the only people to be victims of the ′′population growth at any cost′′ policies of state and federal governments. Our inner suburbs have been subjected to ugly, poorly built, oversized developments for the past 20 years, destroying the heritage character and adding little. I feel no schadenfreude at Brighton’s outrage, only sadness that yet another group of suburbs will be degraded. The economic ennui resulting from over-dependence on migration for growth is the worst of the issue but the liveability of our city is an issue that hits everyone living here. We do not want to be the size of London. Valerie Johnson, Fitzroy North Bad economics So, the RBA prefers that another 75,000 people lose their jobs (′′ Want a rate cut? 75k jobs must go ′′, 29/11) and, in some cases, their family home, so they can reach their inflation target. Has economic theory won over real life? Ian Wilson, Brighton East Not quite global effect Your correspondent states that Lidia Thorpe’s behaviour makes Australia’s parliament the laughing stock of the world (Letters, 30/11). No disrespect intended but I couldn’t help but visualise millions of people in war-torn and hunger-ravaged countries, glued to their televisions and radios guffawing at Thorpe. As if. Phil Labrum, Trentham How to focus your vote The sharpening focus of the two major parties has been to minimise the differences between them to join forces to protect the two-party Westminster system, which serves them so well. The sharpening focus of voters is their growing awareness from what is playing out in their daily lives, of how anything the two major parties say is unlikely to be quite as it appears. Probably the most important question for voters to ask candidates standing at the next federal election, who are not representing either of the two major parties, is ′′To whom will your preference go should you not win the seat outright?′′ and the most important advice for casting a vote is to first ′′Make sure you know′′. Ruth Farr, Blackburn South Independents’ motives Your correspondent is on the right track (Letters, 30/11). Lidia Thorpe’s behaviour will not only affect public perceptions of women in parliament but also in the wider community, as well as making it harder to attract good candidates to fill these positions. There seems to be something particularly toxic for women in the party system. It’s no surprise that so many of the recently elected women are genuine independents (not just party escapees) who are free to set a better and more responsible example. Jenifer Nicholls, Windsor How to tackle graffiti Hear hear to your correspondent (Letters, 30/11). Graffiti in Melbourne is at epidemic proportions and the best efforts of some individuals and companies to control the problem seem futile in comparison to the efforts of those who seem to think their mindless scribbles are in some way meaningful. But solutions are possible. I recently returned from a few weeks in the US including New York and Chicago. I did not see a single piece of graffiti anywhere, even on the New York subway, absolutely spotless. So it can be done. Melbourne just needs to ask how. Ross Hudson, Mount Martha A child’s full education I have taught in a secondary school for more than 40 years and I can say Dianne Kupsch ( Commen t, 27/11) explained so well the effect on students when they are given ways to enjoy their classes and extra-curricular time at school. I was proud to often hear a kid say something like ′′we did this cool thing in photography class today’!′ and I would know that kid went home feeling like their day had been a good one. The current push to devote more time to literacy and numeracy at the expense of more ′′hands-on′′ subjects can leave many students very disengaged and unhappy. Not to mention that in those practical subjects they are still learning new vocabulary, writing in journals, using maths to calculate and measure, presenting their work in front of the class, working in groups, etcetera. School shouldn’t be just about getting ATAR scores, not just about qualifying for a career or trade. It should give students skills and interests they can use in their life outside their future job, as a well-rounded person. Help them find what they enjoy. Melinda Dawson, Bairnsdale Taxi skivers Columnist Tony Wright laments the deplorable behaviour of taxi drivers (“ Scammed and stranded in the city by predatory taxi drivers ”, 28/11). I encountered more appalling and dangerous behaviour when trying to get home with my young niece at the Flinders Street taxi rank. More than five taxi drivers blatantly refused to take us “west side”. Several other people were complaining angrily to the drivers as they also repeatedly approached driver after driver who all refused to take people who were not going where they were headed. We finally managed to stop a taxi driving past who then proceeded to drive dangerously, swerving across lanes, not indicating, cutting the kerbs, leaving my niece and I in fear of our lives. Appalling. Vee McPavian, Williamstown Sudoku mania I blame COVID for developing my obsessive behaviour around Sudoku. During the lockdowns I stared at the completed puzzles and searched for patterns. The most obvious is the numbers in either ascending or descending order in a row or a column, taking eight steps to complete. Assuming you complete one Sudoku a day this should happen about once every four years. However, I haven’t seen it yet. The greatest number of steps going from 1 to 9 (39 steps) is easy to spot occurring on average precisely once every seven weeks. More recently, I have been considering diagonal steps as well and notice that 1 to 9 in eight steps occurs roughly every other day. I’m just recovering from having COVID for the second time and coincidently noticed that the Sudoku (30/11) contained five sequences of 1 to 9 starting with the same 1 and ending with five different 9s. What are the odds? I am hopeful that I will recover fully from COVID again but doubt that I will ever be cured from studying a completed Sudoku. Greg Baxter, Moonee Ponds Unwashed dreams Oh the irony ! That the “great unwashed”, as one correspondent refers to them, truly believe that conservative and hard-right governments will protect and look after them. We can already see a glimpse of that reality in America, and it is appears only the uber rich, the social elite, the tech billionaires , and the big boys of business will be cosseted. Julie Perry, Highton Watch and wait on PM Your editorial (30/11) is critical of the federal Labor government. But you ignore Anthony Albanese’s stated overriding aim for continuing ′′to help people′′ (′′Armed with new slogan, PM embarks on election march′′, 30/11). Yes, let’s be optimistic and stay tuned for the details in 2025. Barbara Fraser, Burwood History’s ironies How ironic that the two bidders for our new frigates are the ancestors of our World War II’s adversary’s industrial complex. George Stockman, BerwickCan goats predict earthquakes? Can dogs forecast volcanic eruptions? These scientists think so
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Scottish artist Jasleen Kaur has won the Turner Prize for her solo exhibition Alter Altar, which includes an installation of a car with a giant doily on it. Happy Valley actor James Norton announced the winner in a ceremony held at Tate Britain on Tuesday evening. The five jury members chose Kaur for “her ability to gather different voices through unexpected and playful combinations of material, from Irn-Bru to family photographs and a vintage Ford Escort, locating moments of resilience and possibility”. Kaur, who was born in Glasgow but lives and works in London, used her speech to advocate for the people in Palestine. The 38-year-old said she wanted to “echo the calls of the protesters outside” who had gathered after an open letter urged the Tate to cut ties with “organisations complicit in what the UN and ICJ are finally getting closer to saying is a genocide of the Palestinian people”. “This is not a radical demand,” Kaur said on stage. “This should not risk an artist’s career or safety. We’re trying to build consensus that the ties to these organisations are unethical, just as artists did with Sackler,” she said, referencing the family linked to the opioid epidemic. “I’ve been wondering why artists are required to dream up liberation in the gallery but when that dream meets life we are shut down. “I want the separation between the expression of politics in the gallery and the practice of politics in life to disappear. “I want the institution to understand that if you want us inside, you need to listen to us outside.” Kaur concluded her speech by calling for a ceasefire, adding: “Free Palestine.” BBC reporter Katie Razzall had to apologise to viewers after Kaur used a swear word in her speech. The artist was nominated for an exhibition that was held at the Tramway in her home city last year. The display, a series of installations exploring religious identities, politics and history, makes heavy use of different sounds, embedded into the exhibition by way of worship bells, Sufi Islamic devotional music, Indian harmonium, and pop tracks. This year the arts prize, named after British painter JMW Turner, which awards £25,000 to its winner, is celebrating its 40th anniversary. Established in 1984, the prize is awarded each year to a British artist for an outstanding exhibition or other presentation of their work. Previous recipients include sculptor Sir Anish Kapoor (1991), artist Damien Hirst (1995), and filmmaker Sir Steve McQueen (1999). In 2025, the prize will be presented in Bradford at Cartwright Hall art gallery, marking the 250th anniversary of Turner’s birth. The exhibition of the four shortlisted artists – Pio Abad, Claudette Johnson, Delaine Le Bas, and Kaur – is at Tate Britain until February 16 2025.
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