CEO of UnitedHealthcare The alleged killer of Brian Thompson, Luigi Nicholas Mangione, a graduate of a top Ivy League school, is now behind bars, accused of second-degree murder. A senior university professor explained how Ivy League campuses across the country are perpetuating extremism, painting a picture of the suspect's educational environment.
Thompson, 50, was shot from behind on the sidewalk outside the home Hilton Hotel New York City On December 4 before the shareholders conference. After a five-day nationwide manhunt for the killer, Mangione, 26, was taken into custody Monday at a McDonald's restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
Uploaded by A A prominent Maryland familythe murder suspect graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science and was part of the Eta Kappa Nu honor society for electrical and computer engineering.
“It's a fairly uniform thing in the Ivy League and other elite educational institutions that skews very left among the faculty,” William Jacobson, a law professor at Cornell University, told Fox News Digital. “The modern Democratic Party… leans very hard to the left, and has a very strong anti-American, anti-capitalist wing… so I wouldn't be surprised if someone who grows up and is educated in that atmosphere becomes radicalized.” “.
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Luigi Mangione, the CEO's murder suspect, screams as officers handcuff him as he arrives for his extradition hearing in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. (David De Delgado for Fox News Digital)
This undated photo provided by UnitedHealth Group shows UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (AP Photo/UnitedHealth Group)
Jacobson said there has been a shift in the attitude of teachers at elite universities over the past two or three decades.
He explained that “the activity is now considered a vital part of the teaching role for many professors.” “They do not differentiate between their education and their activism.”
“This is clearly evident On the anti-Israel front. But it is so elsewhere, on the anti-capitalist front. . . “If you're educating yourself in that atmosphere, I can certainly understand why someone would have hostile views toward a health insurance company.”
A professor at Mangione's alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania, took to TikTok and Instagram to praise the suspect, which she has since retracted.
Vice Dean of the UPenn College of Arts and Sciences Jeffrey Kalberg issued a statement to Fox News Digital on Wednesday regarding the post from UPenn Assistant Professor of English Julia Alexeyeva.
“Recent social media posts attributed to Assistant Professor Julia Alekseeva have raised a lot of concern,” Kalberg said. “Her comments regarding the shooting of Brian Thompson in New York City were inconsistent with the values of both the College of Arts and Sciences and the University of Pennsylvania, and were not condoned by the school or university. After reflection, Assistant Professor Alexieva agreed that the comments were insensitive and inappropriate and retracted them,” said Assistant Professor Alexieva.
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Luigi Mangione in a photo on Facebook. Mangione was taken into custody in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday morning in connection with the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in an ambush in New York City. (Luigi Mangione/Facebook)
Mangione has joined anti-capitalism and climate change causes, according to law enforcement sources New York Post I mentioned.
When the suspect was arrested, four fake ID cards, a handgun and silencer similar to those used in the shooting, and a handwritten statement condemning the health insurance industry were found. In his statement, Mangione specifically mentioned UnitedHealthcare, NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenney told Fox News.
Ivy League graduate It was a spree On Tuesday, as he was taken to a court in Pennsylvania, he revealed more of his ideology.
“It is so far from reality, and an insult to the intelligence and lived experience of the American people!” Mangione shouted as he rushed inside.
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University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia. (Jumping Rocks Images/Educational Images/Global Images Collection via Getty Images)
An outside view of SCI Huntingdon State Correctional Institution in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. Luigi Mangione is currently being held at the detention center after his arrest Monday for the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City. Last week. (David De Delgado for Fox News Digital)
A profile suspected of belonging to Mangione on Goodreads social networking site He periodically posted on the platform and wrote a book review by Notorious Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
“But it is simply impossible to ignore how prescient many of his predictions are about modern society.”
While writing about Kaczynski's “Industrial Society and Its Future,” he quoted another Internet passage that he “found interesting.”
“When all other forms of communication fail,” he wrote, “violence becomes necessary for survival.” “You may not like his methods, but to see things from his point of view, this is not terrorism, but war and revolution.”
Who is Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO?
Luigi Mangione is pictured in a photo in Pennsylvania after his arrest in connection with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)
A Professor at Princeton University He recently spoke to Fox News about an op-ed he wrote new york times, He offered advice to college students who feel they will be discriminated against at elite universities for being right-leaning or conservative.
“They fear they will be treated unfairly by faculty hostile to their beliefs,” Robert George wrote. “To these students, I say with regret: You have a right to be concerned. I have seen these things happen.”
In his op-ed, he noted that a student had been removed from a leadership position on a sports team because some of her more liberal classmates accused her of expressing an opinion about policing that they disagreed with.
“This kind of atmosphere where you are surrounded by allegations that the United States is not legitimate,” he added. That capitalism is a unique evil in the world, since you cannot learn the horrors of communism and socialism. . . It's not surprising that someone would look health care “Blaming a corporate executive without understanding what health care looks like elsewhere,” Jacobson said, noting that he did not know Mangione's specific motives and could not definitively say whether the suspect was radicalized during his studies.
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The University of Pennsylvania, Luigi Mangione's alma mater, declined to comment directly on the arrest of its former student in the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Istock)
Mangione has been charged with second-degree murder, second- and third-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument in Thompson's killing, according to a New York felony arrest warrant.
“I think people need to focus on the evidence, what in his background drove him to radicalize… what in his background drove him to become involved in such a complex conspiracy,” Jacobson said.
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“This is not a spontaneous act of violence. It is clear that this was clearly planned. (The suspect) identified the person and the company and determined his whereabouts and when he would be vulnerable,” he added.
Fox News' Audrey Conklin and Christina Coulter contributed to this report.
