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Former Jets pass rusher Mark Gastineau confronted Brett Favre about NFL sack record grudge, ESPN doc shows

Former New York Jets All-Professional defensive lineman Mark Gastineau believes that Brett Favre took a dive when he allowed Michael Strahan’s in 2002 to cross him for the NFL’s single-season sack file. (Al Bello/Getty Photographs)

Former New York Jets defensive finish Mark Gastineau’s 20-plus yr grudge in opposition to Brett Favre is on show in an upcoming ESPN documentary about “The New York Sack Change,” the dominant line of defense within the Nineteen Eighties that featured Gastineau, Marty Lyons, Joe Klecko and the late Abdul Salaam.

Gastineau is proven confronting Favre at a Chicago sports activities memorabilia present final yr and accusing him of giving New York Giants cross rusher Michael Strahan a simple sack in January of 2002 to interrupt Gastineau’s single-season NFL file.

Favre and Gastineau shook arms and Favre talked about how the 2 had met up to now.

“Yeah, proper — while you fell down for [Strahan],” stated Gastineau. “I’ll get my sack again. I’ll get my sack again, dude.”

A shocked Favre replied, “You in all probability would damage me,” to which Gastineau shot again, “Nicely, I do not care. You damage me. You damage me! You hear me?”

“Yeah, I hear you,” Favre stated.

“You actually damage me. You actually damage me, Brett,” Gastineau stated as Favre was led away by one among his handlers.

Gastineau got here onto the sphere at Giants Stadium in 2002 to congratulate Strahan for breaking the file. However in February 2020, he admitted to ESPN’s Wealthy Cimini that he wasn’t proud of what he believes was Favre taking a dive that day.

“It is my file, and I need it to be identified that it is my file,” Gastineau stated practically 5 years in the past. “I am not going to say, ‘I do not wish to damage anyone’s emotions.’ It is my file. … Being good and being a superb sport, that is good, but it surely’s not actual. The truth is, I am form of a liar in a method. I really feel like there’s simply one thing mistaken.”

Responding to accusations that he gave Strahan a simple sack, Favre stated after that sport in 2002, “We did not lay down for him.”

“Anyone will let you know that Brett Favre took a dive,” Gastineau says within the documentary.

Not too long ago, Gastineau instructed Cimini that he had been ready a very long time to confront Favre and that he believes that Strahan and Favre conspired collectively.

“I wished to let him realize it was a trash sack,” Gastineau stated. “I have been wanting to do this for a very long time — many, a few years. I’ve solely received yet one more man to go to.”

Favre addressed the footage and the incident in a thread on social media on Tuesday night time, and insisted there was “no malice” on his half.

Since Strahan recorded his 22 1/2 sack to cross Gastineau, the file has been matched by T.J. Watt of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2021. Jared Allen (2011) and Justin Houston (2014) have every tied Gastineau with 22 sacks in a single season.

Gastineau’s frustration with how he misplaced the sack file practically 23 years in the past might need to do with him not being in Professional Soccer Corridor of Fame.

Regardless of being the NFL’s Defensive Participant of the 12 months in 1982, a four-time First-Crew All-Professional, five-time Professional Bowler and two-time NFL sack chief, who completed with 107.5 sacks in his profession, Gastineau has by no means reached the semifinal stage in Corridor of Fame voting.

Laine stays hot, Canadiens edge Ducks in shootout

Dach had gone 19 video games with no purpose and 9 with no level. Slafkovsky, who has two objectives in 25 video games, had gone 4 video games with no level.

“I used to be joyful as a result of I really feel like if you rating a few objectives you get your confidence again, and just about that’s what he wants. That’s what I want,” Slafkovsky mentioned.

Jacob Trouba was paired with Fowler and performed 22:35 with one shot on purpose and 5 hits in his Anaheim debut. He was acquired in a commerce with the New York Rangers on Friday.

“I imply, he’s all the time laborious to play towards,” Terry mentioned. “You recognize he’s this large bodily man and he’s good defensively. I assumed he was up within the play loads tonight offensively. It felt like a couple of instances at any time when I received house within the offensive zone he was in a great spot for a move or an opportunity to attain. So, I assumed he was nice.”

NOTES: Lane Hutson received the secondary help on Laine’s purpose to increase his help and level streaks to seven video games (eight assists), every of which is a document for a Canadiens rookie defenseman. … Hutson has 21 assists in his first 30 video games, turning into the eighth NHL defenseman to perform the feat. Solely Larry Murphy (5 objectives, 27 assists), Nicklas Lidstrom (4 objectives, 23 assists), Brian Leetch (seven objectives, 22 assists) and Quinn Hughes of the Vancouver Canucks (two objectives, 22 assists) have had extra assists by their first 30 video games. … Suzuki has 10 factors (three objectives, seven assists) throughout a seven-game level streak.

Documentary to show tense Mark Gastineau-Brett Favre rift from ’23

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Former New York Jets star Mark Gastineau, who has carried a grudge in opposition to Brett Favre for 20 years, confronted the Corridor of Fame quarterback final yr at a memorabilia present and accused him of intentionally taking a sack that price Gastineau the NFL’s single-season document.

It made for a tense and uncomfortable scene, captured on video. It seems within the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary “The New York Sack Trade,” which premieres 8 p.m. ET Friday (ESPN/ESPN+).

An offended Gastineau attended the memorabilia present in Chicago with two different members of the Jets’ “Sack Trade,” a four-man defensive position that dominated the early Nineteen Eighties. He approached an unsuspecting Favre at a desk the place the Inexperienced Bay Packers legend was signing autographs.

They shook palms. Favre talked about how they’d met as soon as earlier than.

“Yeah, proper — whenever you fell down for him,” stated Gastineau, alluding to former New York Giants star Michael Strahan — the document breaker. “I’ll get my sack again. I’ll get my sack again, dude.”

Favre appeared bewildered.

“You most likely would damage me,” he stated.

“Effectively, I do not care,” Gastineau stated, pointing at Favre. “You damage me. You damage me! You hear me?”

“Yeah, I hear you,” Favre stated.

“You actually damage me,” Gastineau shot again. “You actually damage me, Brett.”

At that time, Favre was escorted away by certainly one of his handlers, leaving a seething Gastineau by himself. He was miked up by a digital camera crew, which was following him.

Gastineau was referring to the ultimate sport of the 2001 season, when Strahan broke Gastineau’s single-season document with a controversial sack of Favre. With 22 sacks, Gastineau held the mark from 1984 to 2001. Many consider Favre went down on function so Strahan may break the document with 22.5.

Gastineau was in attendance that day, graciously congratulating Strahan. After 18 years of suppressing his anger, Gastineau went public along with his true emotions in a 2020 interview with ESPN.

He doubles down within the documentary.

“Anyone will let you know that Brett Favre took a dive,” Gastineau stated within the documentary.

The 30 for 30 chronicles the rise and fall of the “Sack Trade” and the advanced relationship between the polarizing Gastineau and teammates Joe Klecko, Marty Lyons and the late Abdul Salaam.

Reached by cellphone, Gastineau defined why he confronted Favre.

“I wished to let him comprehend it was a trash sack,” he stated.

“I have been wanting to do this for a very long time — many, a few years,” Gastineau added. “I’ve solely bought yet one more man to go to” — that means Strahan, who Gastineau says he believes conspired with Favre on the record-breaking sack.

Gastineau had no thought Favre can be on the present till he and his spouse, Jo Ann, arrived in Chicago and noticed Favre’s identify on an inventory of attendees. Lyons, who was in Chicago and witnessed the confrontation, stated he tried to persuade his former teammate to avoid Favre.

“I stated, ‘Mark, let it go, simply let it go. That occurred years in the past,'” Lyons stated in a cellphone interview. “However he had this little crazed look in his eye.”

Later that day, Jo Ann Gastineau returned to Favre’s desk to clean issues over. She stated she apologized, saying her husband “did not imply something by it.”

The document has been a supply of anguish for Strahan as properly.

“The sack document is nice, completely phenomenal, however I virtually really feel like in a way it was diminished as a result of everybody goes, ‘Oh, Brett Favre gave you a sack,'” Strahan stated in “A Soccer Life,” a documentary aired in 2013 by NFL Community. “I caught a lot flak over it. … It isn’t price it, as a result of everybody seems to be as if one sack that they query is the defining second of my profession.”

The Corridor of Famer is now not the only holder of the single-season document, as Pittsburgh Steelers star T.J. Watt matched Strahan’s mark with 22.5 sacks in 2021.

On Tuesday, Favre posted an extended thread on X, addressing what he described as “a small dustup” between him and Gastineau.

Favre stated he did not deliberately take the sack to harm Gastineau, saying, “There was no malice on my half.” Looking back, Favre stated he sees how the sack document might need benefitted Gastineau financially and strengthened his case for the Corridor of Fame.

“Some time again, he noticed me at a card present and bought his frustration off his chest,” Favre posted.

“It isn’t the sort of second that ought to be filmed and launched. It was a non-public second of frustration between two previous soccer warriors.”

Favre endorsed Gastineau for the Corridor of Fame.

“I hope this controversy brings consideration to simply how nice Mark Gastineau was. He belongs in Canton.”

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Bill Belichick weighing offer to become UNC coach, but hurdles remain: Sources

By Ralph D. Russo, Brendan Marks and Dianna Russini

Invoice Belichick is contemplating a proposal to turn into the following coach at North Carolina, 4 individuals briefed on the scenario instructed The Athletic on Tuesday.

A deal has not been agreed to and phrases are nonetheless being negotiated, the sources mentioned. Whereas a deal should still come collectively shortly, sources cautioned that nothing is imminent and the edges stay aside on a number of key phrases. The individuals spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of discussions between the 72-year-old Belichick and the ACC faculty weren’t being made public.

The six-time Tremendous Bowl-winning coach mentioned Monday on “The Pat McAfee Present” that he has had conversations with the UNC chancellor Lee Roberts about filling the emptiness, which has been open because the faculty fired Mack Brown days earlier than the regular-season finale.

Throughout his 24 seasons with the Patriots, Belichick received six championships whereas paired with Tom Brady at quarterback, a run that cemented Belichick as one of many NFL’s most adorned coaches. He has 333 wins, together with video games within the common season and playoffs, and is 14 victories away from tying Don Shula for the NFL profession report for head coaches.

Belichick has labored within the media since departing New England, nevertheless it has lengthy been clear that he was seeking to coach once more. However a transfer to UNC would mark his first faculty teaching place of any sort. He spent a while in faculty soccer this 12 months at Washington, the place his son Steve Belichick joined the Huskies as defensive coordinator below first-year head coach Jedd Fisch.

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The coach with essentially the most Tremendous Bowl wins in NFL historical past is likely to be coming to school soccer.

Invoice Belichick confirmed this week that he spoke lately with the College of North Carolina about its vacant head teaching place after experiences surfaced about him going via the interview course of with Tar Heels’ officers. The previous New England Patriots coach has been making weekly media appearances with ESPN, “The Pat McAfee Present” and “Contained in the NFL,” amongst different ventures because the Patriots elected to finish their 24-year partnership with Belichick final January.

Belichick, 72, has 333 profession wins, eight Tremendous Bowl appearances and 6 Tremendous Bowl wins over 29 seasons as an NFL head coach, however he has by no means coached on the collegiate stage. His father, Steve Belichick, was a longtime assistant coach at Navy.

Invoice Belichick’s obvious willingness to interchange Mack Brown at UNC, and maybe bypass any NFL coach openings this offseason, is out of the blue the largest storyline throughout this 12 months’s school soccer teaching carousel. However UNC nonetheless should agree Belichick is the suitable selection after which come to phrases with him with sufficient cash left over to place collectively a university soccer roster that resembles the NFL greater than ever earlier than.

A choice by both Belichick or UNC might be imminent with the switch portal already open. Listed below are the most recent updates on the teaching search and the intriguing developments surrounding Belichick’s potential future in school soccer:

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The most recent nationwide experiences counsel that Belichick is contemplating a suggestion to turn out to be North Carolina’s subsequent soccer coach, however The Athletic, ESPN and the Raleigh Information and Observer have every reported in earlier tales {that a} energy battle occurring inside North Carolina is holding up the method to make Belichick the subsequent Tar Heels’ soccer coach. ESPN reported that UNC Board of Trustees chair John P. Preyer has been a key Belichick advocate. Preyer stated publicly he didn’t like how Brown’s firing was dealt with by North Carolina athletic director Bubba Cunningham.

Different points standing in the way in which of Belichick changing into UNC’s coach embody the potential function of his son Stephen Belichick, UNC’s NIL assets, Belichick’s wage and assets for the employees, based on ESPN. Stephen Belichick is presently the defensive coordinator on the College of Washington.

Tulane’s Jon Sumrall was additionally tied to the UNC job, however took his title out of the operating Monday when he introduced he can be staying with the Inexperienced Wave. UNC has additionally spoken to Military’s Jeff Monken in regards to the opening, in addition to Georgia defensive coordinator Glenn Schumann and former Arizona Cardinals and Carolina Panthers head coach Steve Wilks, based on ESPN. Pittsburgh Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith additionally stated UNC approached to debate the job opening shortly after Brown’s dismissal was introduced final month.

If issues fall via with Belichick, there might be plenty of strain on UNC to rent a brand new coach shortly.

Belichick, throughout his weekly look on “The Pat McAfee Present” on Monday didn’t talk about specifics about his conversations with North Carolina. However he did lay out a imaginative and prescient for the way a university soccer program would look underneath his management.

“If I used to be in a university program, the school program can be a pipeline to the NFL for the gamers that had the power to play within the NFL,” Belichick stated. “It could be knowledgeable program – coaching, diet, scheme, teaching strategies ‒ that might switch to the NFL. It could be an NFL program at a university stage and an training that might get the gamers prepared for his or her profession after soccer, whether or not that was on the finish of their school profession or their professional profession.”

“However it will be geared in the direction of growing the gamers, time administration, self-discipline, construction, and all that. There can be life expertise no matter whether or not they have been within the NFL or someplace in enterprise. I really feel very assured I’ve the contacts within the Nationwide Soccer League to pave the way in which for these gamers … to have the chance to compete within the NFL .”

Who is Luigi Mangione? The ‘strong person of interest’ in CEO killing – National

Police in Pennsylvania have arrested a person in reference to the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, with officers saying Luigi Mangione is a “sturdy particular person of curiosity” within the case.

Thompson, 50, was killed final Wednesday in what police stated was a “brazen, focused” assault as he walked alone to the Hilton from a close-by lodge, the place UnitedHealthcare’s dad or mum firm, UnitedHealth Group, was holding its annual investor convention.

The shooter gave the impression to be “mendacity in watch for a number of minutes” earlier than approaching the manager from behind and opening hearth, based on police. He used a 9 mm pistol that police stated resembled the weapons farmers use to place down animals with out inflicting a loud noise.

Right here’s what police have stated to this point about Mangione.

In keeping with Joseph Kenny, chief of detectives with the New York Police Division, Luigi Mangione is a 26-year-old man who was born and raised in Maryland, with ties to San Francisco and Honolulu.

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Police stated it’s believed he additionally might have attended school in Pennsylvania.

The 26-year-old reportedly has no prior arrest historical past in New York and previous to the discharge of his title on Monday, he was not identified to town’s police nor was his title present in another U.S. arrests.

Police recovered a three-page handwritten doc, which they stated “speaks to each his motivation and mindset,” that’s at the moment in possession of the Altoona police division in Pennsylvania.

“From briefly talking with them (Altoona police,) we don’t assume that there’s any particular threats to different folks talked about in that doc, nevertheless it does appear that he has some sick will towards company America over right here,” Kenny instructed reporters on Monday.

In keeping with New York Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch, the 26-year-old was acknowledged by an worker of a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., who then known as native police.

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They then questioned Mangione, who reportedly was performing suspiciously and carrying a number of fraudulent IDs and a U.S. passport.




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Regardless of the possession of a passport, Kenny stated they don’t consider the suspect was planning on doing any travelling or attempting to flee the nation.

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Tisch stated one of many ID playing cards matched the ID utilized by a person police described as a suspect final week to test right into a hostel in Manhattan earlier than the capturing.

Kenny stated police then recovered a firearm on Mangione on additional investigation — a ghost gun that would hearth a 9 mm spherical and was probably made on a 3D printer.

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They stated a suppressor, also referred to as a silencer, was additionally discovered. Each the gun and suppressor had been stated to be according to the weapon used within the capturing.

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“Upon additional investigation, officers recovered a firearm on his particular person in addition to a suppressor, each according to the weapon used within the homicide,” Tisch stated. “In addition they recovered clothes, together with a masks consisting with these worn by our needed particular person.”

Within the days because the capturing, police turned to the general public for assist by releasing a set of photographs and video — together with footage of the assault, in addition to photographs of an particular person described by NYPD as an individual of curiosity at a Starbucks beforehand.

In keeping with Kenny, Mangione will likely be going through gun costs in Altoona however working with the Manhattan District Legal professional’s workplace, legislation enforcement will work to extradite the person to New York.

Right now, Kenny stated Mangione is believed to have allegedly acted alone however they’re nonetheless engaged on their investigation.

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On Friday, police discovered a backpack within the park that they are saying the killer within the case discarded as he fled from the crime scene to an uptown bus station, the place they consider he left town on a bus.

On Monday, Okay-9 items sniffed leaf-covered planters between strolling paths in Central Park close to the place police discovered the shooter’s backpack.

Farther alongside the trail on which police suspect the shooter within the case took off via the park after the capturing, scuba divers equipped and began looking out a pond for the third straight day.

Retracing the gunman’s steps utilizing surveillance video, investigators say the shooter fled into Central Park on a bicycle, emerged from the park with out his backpack after which ditched the bicycle.

He then walked a pair blocks and received right into a taxi, arriving at on the George Washington Bridge Bus Station, which is close to the northern tip of Manhattan and provides commuter service to New Jersey and Greyhound routes to Philadelphia, Boston and Washington, Kenny stated.

—with information from International Information’ Sean Boynton and The Related Press


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28 Years Later Is Once Again Asking Very Big Questions About Zombies

28 Days Later is a movie I maintain close to and pricey to my coronary heart. Danny Boyle’s horror traditional got here onto the scene in 2002 and single-handedly revitalized zombie cinema with its lo-fi method to the tip of the world, turning lumbering undead corpses into ferocious monsters keen to run marathons in pursuit of human flesh. Creatures pushed by nothing however pure, unbridled Rage. It terrified, intrigued, and impressed me as a toddler, and 20 years later it nonetheless does.

Naturally, I’m protecting of its world, narrative, and characters. By some miracle, 28 Weeks Later was a compelling sequel with equally intimate themes, exploring how human beings making even the only of choices can ship the world into chaos. Performing on our ideas of ardour, guilt, love, need, and righteousness can doom society if we allow them to, leaving everybody else to select up the items. I really like the chaos, so the 28 Years Later trilogy pushing us to date ahead into the long run leaves me with loads of questions, each good and unhealthy.

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Each of the earlier movies are so unsettling as a result of they aren’t afraid to discover how shortly society fell aside as soon as the Rage Virus was unleashed. Individuals might be contaminated with a single drop of blood, turning into zombies seconds later. One contaminated being in a big crowd spells doom for 1000’s, and by the point you’re conscious of the hazard, it’s too late.

Whoever determined to intersperse Rudyard Kipling’s ‘Boots’ into the soundscape of the trailer is a genius. It’s a wartime poem which reinforces the themes of the movie indirectly. Even on this temporary glimpse, it is undeniably haunting.

It’s pure terror, convincingly explaining to each the viewer and characters on this universe the way it was inconceivable to return again from the brink. However then the zombies starved to demise, like a human being would in the event that they have been performing on pure intuition with nothing to maintain them.

The thought of this society-collapsing menace fading away due to the truth of human biology is fascinating, and one thing different zombie media has seldom tried to discover. Quite than the traditional trope of getting to do horrible issues to remain alive, the people waited issues out till zombies collapsed of their very own accord.

The virus had unfold to some extent of irrelevance, permitting governments outdoors the UK to swoop in and reshape this empire in their very own picture. Regardless of its simplicity, there are a number of layers to those movies and the methods they envision such a tried-and-true horror staple, which brings us to twenty-eight Years Later and its debut trailer.

Plenty of comparisons are already being made to The Strolling Lifeless and The Final of Us, to the purpose that some are afraid the trilogy goes to really feel considerably by-product. Nevertheless, the setting additionally has loads of Viking historical past that 28 Years Later might delve into, both blatantly or symbolically.

Starring Aaron-Taylor Johnson, Jodie Comer, and Ralph Innes, the upcoming trilogy takes us again to the UK and to a solitary group on the isle of Lindsfarne, often known as Holy Island. It’s linked to the mainland by a large causeway (although usually coated by excessive tide), and for many years, a gaggle of survivors has referred to as it house.

How precisely the universe has developed stays unclear, however evidently the outbreak continued and society was positioned right into a steady stream of very strict quarantines till, ultimately, the world fell aside. Survivors are seen wielding bows and arrows, main round mules and livestock, or adhering to conventional roles in society, every of which permits them to outlive and work collectively in a world on the perpetual brink.

The Zombie Sequel Is All About Faith, Survival, and Human Beings

A significant turning level within the narrative ultimately leads Aaron-Taylor Johnson’s character and a small youngster to enterprise to the mainland seeking one thing, main them to cross paths with not solely the contaminated, however different people which have shaped their very own spiritual sects and Mad Max-esque gangs. It’s very post-apocalyptic and coated in apparent spiritual imagery and concepts, one thing I assume will develop into a mainstay all through the trilogy.

I’ve so many questions, and regardless of fearing that a lot of the imagery and total idea of the trilogy feels by-product, I think about Danny Boyle and Alex Garland to place a definite spin on issues. Is that this group even conscious that the world has ended or the virus itself has died out, splitting themselves off from society to such an extent that they now threat dooming it yet again? Or has the concept of contaminated ravenous to demise been fully retconned? There may be clearly one thing extra that the trailer isn’t letting on, and the way precisely this commune involves perform and reacts to the trend virus will play a giant half in whether or not the movie works or not.

One scene has a toddler being lifted and celebrated in some kind of church setting, so maybe youngsters with recent, uninfected blood are seen as saviours of some kind.

Later scenes within the trailer comply with a army unit of some type cautiously shifting by means of the darkish earlier than being attacked by both people or contaminated, main me to imagine there must be some kind of crossover between this remoted group and the trendy world. Nothing is because it appears, and this trailer desires us to attract conclusions earlier than going again on ourselves time and again.

If the contaminated at the moment are simply zombies that reside eternally, I might be bummed out, however there may be sufficient imagery on this trailer – corresponding to a zombie rising from the bottom with little to no meat on its bones who may simply be Cillian Murphy – that our expectations are going to be subverted.

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Luigi Mangione shouts while entering courthouse

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The person accused of killing UnitedHealthcare’s CEO struggled with deputies and shouted whereas being led into court docket Tuesday as new particulars emerged about his potential motivation behind the ambush.

In his first public phrases since a five-day search ended together with his arrest at a McDonald’s in Pennsylvania, Luigi Nicholas Mangione emerged from a patrol automotive shouting about an “insult to the intelligence of the American individuals” whereas deputies pushed him inside a courthouse.

The 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from a distinguished Maryland actual property household is combating makes an attempt to extradite him to New York in order that he can face a homicide cost within the Manhattan killing of Brian Thompson, who led the US’ largest medical insurance coverage firm.

A legislation enforcement bulletin obtained by The Related Press stated that on the time of his arrest, Mangione was carrying a handwritten doc expressing anger with what he referred to as “parasitic” medical insurance corporations and a disdain for company greed and energy.

He wrote that the U.S. has the most costly well being care system on the earth and that income of main companies proceed to rise whereas “our life expectancy” doesn’t, in line with the bulletin.

In social media posts, Mangione referred to as “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski — who carried out a sequence of bombings whereas railing towards fashionable society and know-how — a “political revolutionary,” in line with the police bulletin.

This combo picture launched by Pennsylvania State Police reveals Luigi Mangione at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pa., Monday, Dec. 9, 2024. (Pennsylvania State Police by way of AP)

Mangione remained jailed in Pennsylvania, the place he was initially charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm, forgery and offering false identification to police.

Manhattan prosecutors had been starting to take steps to convey Mangione to New York, however at a short listening to Tuesday, protection lawyer Thomas Dickey stated his shopper won’t waive extradition and as an alternative desires a listening to on the difficulty. Mangione was denied bail after prosecutors stated he was too harmful to be launched.

He largely stared straight forward on the listening to, often papers, rocking in his chair or trying again on the gallery. At one level, he started to talk to answer the court docket dialogue however was quieted by his lawyer.

“You’ll be able to’t rush to judgment on this case or any case,” Dickey stated afterward. “He’s presumed harmless. Let’s not neglect that.”

Mangione was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, about 230 miles (about 370 kilometres) west of New York Metropolis, after a McDonald’s buyer acknowledged him and notified an worker, authorities stated.

Photos of Mangione launched Tuesday by Pennsylvania State Police confirmed him knocking down his masks within the nook of the McDonald’s whereas holding what seemed to be hash browns and carrying a winter jacket and beanie. In one other picture from a holding cell, he stood unsmiling with rumpled hair.

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New York police officers have stated Mangione was carrying a gun just like the one used to kill Thompson and the identical pretend ID the shooter had used to test right into a New York hostel, together with a passport and different fraudulent IDs.

A legislation enforcement official who wasn’t licensed to debate the investigation publicly and spoke with The Related Press on situation of anonymity stated a three-page, handwritten doc discovered with Mangione included a line by which he claimed to have acted alone.

This reserving picture supplied by Pennsylvania Division of Corrections on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024, reveals reveals Luigi Mangione, a suspect within the deadly taking pictures of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Pennsylvania Division of Corrections by way of AP)

“To the Feds, I’ll preserve this brief, as a result of I do respect what you do for our nation. To avoid wasting you a prolonged investigation, I state plainly that I wasn’t working with anybody,” the doc stated, in line with the official.

It additionally stated, “I do apologize for any strife or traumas nevertheless it needed to be achieved. Frankly, these parasites merely had it coming.”

Thompson, 50, was killed final Wednesday as he walked alone to a Manhattan lodge for an investor convention. From surveillance video, New York investigators decided the shooter rapidly fled town, doubtless by bus.

Mangione was born into a lifetime of nation golf equipment and privilege. His grandfather was a self-made actual property developer and philanthropist.

This reserving picture launched Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, by the Pennsylvania Division of Corrections reveals Luigi Mangione, a suspect within the deadly taking pictures of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. (Pennsylvania Division of Corrections by way of AP)

Valedictorian at his elite Baltimore prep faculty, he went on to earn undergraduate and graduate levels in pc science in 2020 from the College of Pennsylvania, a spokesperson stated.

“Our household is shocked and devastated by Luigi’s arrest,” Mangione’s household stated in an announcement posted on social media late Monday by his cousin, Maryland Del. Nino Mangione. “We provide our prayers to the household of Brian Thompson and we ask individuals to wish for all concerned.”

From January to June 2022, Luigi Mangione lived at Surfbreak, a “co-living” area on the fringe of touristy Waikiki in Honolulu.

Luigi Mangione is seen in a photograph posted in 2019. (Obtained by CNN)

Like different residents of the shared penthouse catering to distant staff, Mangione underwent a background test, stated Josiah Ryan, a spokesperson for proprietor and founder R.J. Martin.

“Luigi was simply broadly thought-about to be an excellent man. There have been no complaints,” Ryan stated. “There was no signal which may level to those alleged crimes they’re saying he dedicated.”

At Surfbreak, Martin discovered Mangione had extreme again ache from childhood that interfered with many facets of his life, from browsing to romance, Ryan stated.

Mangione left Surfbreak to get surgical procedure on the mainland, Ryan stated, then later returned to Honolulu and rented an house.

Martin stopped listening to from Mangione six months to a yr in the past.

Scolforo reported from Altoona and Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. Contributing had been Related Press writers Cedar Attanasio and Jennifer Peltz in New York; Michael Rubinkam and Maryclaire Dale in Pennsylvania; Lea Skene in Baltimore; Jennifer Sinco Kelleher in Honolulu and John Seewer in Toledo, Ohio.