Attendees at a dance party in Boston cheered when pictures of Luigi Mangione, the man accused in the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO, appeared on screen, according to videos posted on social media.
Bop to the Top Tours’ Jingle Bop was being held at Big Night Live, a venue in Boston, on Friday night.
During the show, a DJ played Miley Cyrus’ “He Could Be The One” as several pictures of Mangione appeared on a big screen.
The crowd can be heard cheering as photos of Mangione taken from his social media accounts appear on screen.
The cheers appear to get louder as Mangione’s booking photos are shown on screen, according to a clip shared by a user on TikTok that racked up more than 1.2 million likes.
“Give the people what they want,” the user wrote alongside the video.
Bop to the Top Tour shared the user’s clip on its Instagram page with the caption: “Too unserious.”
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Mangione, 26, has become an online sex symbol since he was arrested at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on December 9. A fundraiser has since raised more than $100,000 to go toward his legal fees and his lawyer said he has received offers from people wanting to pay Mangione’s legal bills.
He remains incarcerated without bail at the State Correctional Institution Huntingdon in Pennsylvania, where he has been charged with gun and forgery offenses.
Luigi Mangione is led from the Blair County Courthouse after an extradition hearing on December 10, 2024, in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Pictures of Mangione were shown on the big screen during a concert in Boston.
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Prosecutors in Manhattan are seeking to extradite Mangione to New York to face second-degree murder and other charges in connection with Thompson’s killing.
Thompson, 50, was gunned down early on December 4 as he walked alone to his company’s annual investor conference at the New York Hilton Midtown.
Mangione’s lawyer Thomas Dickey has said his client will plead not guilty to the charges in Pennsylvania and will contest his extradition to New York.
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday said that there were signs that Mangione may now given up on that fight.
“We [are] going to continue to press forward on parallel paths, and we’ll be ready whether he is going to waive extradition or whether he is going to contest extradition,” Bragg said at a press conference about public safety in Times Square.
Police said the gun found on Mangione when he was arrested matched shell casings found at the site of the shooting. His fingerprints have also been matched to a water bottle and a wrapper that police found near the scene, police said.
A handwritten note that was also found on him referred to “parasites” that “had it coming.”
The U.S. has the most expensive healthcare system in the world and the profits of large corporations continue to rise while “our life expectancy” does not, the note said.
It also condemned corporations that “continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.”
It added: “It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play. Evidently, I am the first to face it with such brutal honesty.”
