In recent days, there has been a new internet star that has hit the digital airwaves of social media.
Well, “internet star” is definitely one way to put it.
Luigi Magione is a 26-year-old. He was born in Maryland, and the Magione family name is created in wealth, luxury and private golf courses. He studied at an all-boys school where he happened to serve as the school’s valedictorian. Not to mention, after graduating, he proceeded to excel tremendously in the tech industry with the prestigious institutions he attended backing him and his credentials.
He was the pretty boy, the smart boy, the boy with right-leaning ideologies that never seemed to add redundancies to his character. His webbing of friends and family can tell anyone that much.
Mangione is nice on the eyes. Pretty sharp on the nose. With dark features that seem to encompass the slope of his face entirely. Mangione is the kind of man you would take home to your mother, even let him shake your father’s hand at the door.
But Luigi Mangione is also believed to be a murderer. Many of you have probably seen the video.
About 2 weeks ago, United Health Care CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down on a New York Street in the early morning. Within seconds, security appeared at his side and within the hour, police had flocked the entire block. But there was something entirely odd about Thompson’s death, more or less, the investigation itself.
As days passed, the American public started caring less and less about the slaughtered CEO and more about the man who was eluding police, the man who was ducking every security camera in the Tri-State, the man who was carrying a weapon and multiple fake IDs.
Luigi Mangione had become an overnight sensation, the modern-day Robin Hood.
To many in the American public, he had delivered justice to their front door. As they see it, Mangione had allegedly slain a man whose own hands were soiled with the blood of millions.
The internet couldn’t wait to see the man who had supposedly done God’s bidding, who had cut the head off of one of the thousands of serpents sent to bring pestilence to the poor-middle class ratio of families denied healthcare over a thousand times over.
And despite being born from a wealthy family, Mangione had suffered a similar fate like the rest of middle class America. He seems to have been denied healthcare when dealt with a physical ailment that ended life as he knew it.
Maigione’s case had proved that just because you had money didn’t necessarily mean you were untouchable.
So, when Luigi Mangione was caught just a few days later at a McDonald’s restaurant in Pennsylvania, tased, detained, and brought to county jail, the American people raged.
And the plus, born the hashtag of #FreeMyMan.
#FreeLuigiMangione.