I think Mojo’s comment is meant sarcastically. I.e. UCH does murder sick people.
But to your question: the presumption of innocence. You’ve got the burden-of-proof backwards; it’s not “prove he didn’t commit murder” but rather “prove he did”. What I’ve seen is: some blurry pictures of a white man with brown hair in NYC, security footage of a white man with brown hair doing the killing, and the police say that they found a confession-manifesto and a ghost-gun on Mangione when they arrested him.
As a white man with brown hair who doesn’t trust the police, I feel concerned about this standard of evidence!
The physical evidence would seem pretty strong but: a manifesto is something you mail, not carry around with you waiting to be arrested. And a ghost-gun is something you throw away immediately, not hang on to across state lines.
My main point here isn’t that it’s a slam-dunk “no possible way he could have done it”. But that it’s just not a ton of evidence. And the pressure to get a conviction and execute someone is incredibly strong. I’d say there’s decent evidence that the NYC cops are corrupt and setting up an innocent man to make themselves look good. If we’re going to jump to a verdict before the trial, what made you pick the one you picked?
I don’t disagree with you, but I don’t put a lot of value in that judgement. Like, if I was the VP of Denying Claims at UnitedHealthcare, I guess I would avoid being in a room with him and a gun just to be safe? I donno…
When I see people saying he’s definitely innocent, I mostly read that as a reaction against the media which portrays all suspects as 100% guilty. And that’s a pretty fucked-up thing, right? Like, suppose there’s a real trial and we all get to see that the evidence against Manione is garbage and that he’s clearly innocent and he gets correctly exonerated. Even still, he’ll spend the rest of his life as “Luigi, that dude who killed the CEO!” because that’s what people saw on TV long before his trial.