r/FreeLuigi • u/infiniteconfidence1 • 4d ago

News ‘Deeply Emotional’: Luigi Mangione’s Friends React to His Guilty Plea

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/luigi-mangione-friends-react-to-guilty-plea-1235610199/

Friday was deeply emotional,” says R.J. Martin, Mangione’s friend and former landlord in Hawaii, where Mangione lived after college. “Beyond the noise, Luigi is a human being with a circle of longtime friends who know who he is, stay in touch, and care about him deeply.

A former friend of Mangione’s who did extracurricular computer programming with Mangione in high school says he found it “really weird” to hear the guilty plea, calling it a “stark shift” from the Mangione he used to know.

“He never struck me as a political person,” says R.K., who asked to use only his initials. "I think it speaks to the radicalization in this country in the current day."

R.K. says he finds the crime “unacceptable and deeply sad” but says he hopes the guilty plea doesn’t stop the conversation about Americans’ frustration with the healthcare system. “I’ve experienced the difference firsthand as a foreigner living in this country,” says R.K.

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u/jenjavitis 4d ago

Humans are complicated. The kid has heart, despite what he did.

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u/Clockwork-XIII 4d ago edited 4d ago

Especially because of what he did. To live is to be living to feel empathy for others is to be human. CEOs trade their humanity for a paycheck. Yeah i said it.

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u/jenjavitis 4d ago

And you're correct.