The UnitedHealth CEO shooting

Today, Explained

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🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Gothamist’s Brittany Kriegstein explains who police just arrested. STAT News’s Bob Herman explains the anger resonating against UnitedHealthcare. This episode was produced by Miles Bryan and Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Patrick Boyd and Rob Byers, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/members Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, in an Altoona Police Department handout photo. Photo by Altoona Police Department via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On Wednesday of last week, a man was shot in the United States, but this was not your average shooting.
0:06.8	Almost immediately, people were celebrating his death, and not just the people you'd expect.
0:11.1	There were moms on Facebook making jokes about it.
0:13.8	There were several of those horny copy pasta text messages circulating around.
0:18.3	There was a United Healthcare shooter lookalike contest over the weekend
0:23.0	in Manhattan. At least one person got a tattoo of the suspect. On Monday, Luigi Mangione got arrested,
0:30.1	and then things really got nuts. He went from a few dozen Twitter followers to 300,000 overnight.
0:36.3	People are thirsting for his six-pack. Luigi Mangione is
0:40.1	brat. The McDonald's where he was arrested has been review bombed. People are saying there are
0:44.5	rats behind the counter. People are saying Popeye's employees would have helped him get
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