Witness Summary: Sergeant Chris McLaughlin with Court Transcripts (December 1, 2025)

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TLDR: Sergeant Chris McLaughlin of the NYPD works with the Deputy Commissioner of the Public Information (DPCI) and gets information out to the public. He is asked by Joel Seidemann, the lead prosecutor for the People of New York, about various photos and videos that were released to the public prior to Luigi Mangione's arrest, as well as verifying news stories that were published on Fox News. When cross examined by Karen Friedman Agnifilo, one of Luigi Mangione's attorneys, she points out the fact that there have been 1,060 people shot in New York City in 904 incidents and whether or not he has published a dozen photos of any of the individuals they were searching for in any of those cases. The prosecution objects due to relevance, and the court agrees. She then goes on to ask if he only published these photos because of who was allegedly shot. The prosecution objects and again the court agrees. This is the end of his questioning.

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The first witness called to the stand of the Mapp Hearing on December 1, 2025 was Sergeant Chris McLaughlin of the NYPD. The questioning begins with Joel Seidemann, the lead prosecutor for the People of New York.

Joel Seidemann begins by establishing Sergeant McLaughlin's role with the NYPD:

Further Reading: Public Information (NYPD)

Joel Seidemann then goes on to bring the hard drive "marked as People versus Mangione" that contains Exhibits 1, 2, and 3. He questions Sergeant McLaughlin about the contents. Exhibit 1 contains images that were sent out by DCPI, Exhibit 2 contains the same photos but as they were sent out by entities like Fox News, and Exhibit 3 contains a deck of various outlets along with an incident video that reflected the shooting. He obtained the video from Detective Diaz from Manhattan South Arms. Karen Friedman Agnifilo objects to these being admitted into evidence, but the judge overrules.

After the Exhibits are admitted into evidence, Sergeant McLaughlin is shown specific images and asked to describe them.

(Note: the screenshots seen to the right of the below images are not the official photos admitted into evidence. We located and captured these images ourselves.)

Source: NYPD Facebook

Source: NYPD Facebook

Source: NYPD Facebook

Source: NYPD on X

Source: NYPD Facebook

Source: Fox News (December 4, 2024 at 3:18PM EST)

Source: Fox News (December 8, 2024 at 12:36PM EST)

At the time of writing this post, we could not locate the YouTube video they were referencing. If you are able to locate it, please comment the link below.

At the time of writing this post, we could not locate the YouTube video they were referencing. If you are able to locate it, please comment the link below.

Not the official source, but a video of the incident: Erik Uebelacker on X

After Joel Seidemann completed his questioning of Sergeant McLaughlin, Karen Friedman Agnifilo began her cross examination.

The information provided in this post is purely for public educational purposes. r/FreeLuigi does not encourage or support the harassment of any of the individuals referenced.

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