UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s alleged assassin Luigi Mangione was “irritated” before his public outburst because there was no lawyer to support him as law enforcement officials dragged him inside a Pennsylvania courthouse this week.Mangione hadn’t vented his frustration to anyone after he was nabbed from an Altona, Pa.McDonald’s Monday morning, according to his lawyer Thomas Dickey.
During his outburst, Mangione yelled at the group of reporters that had gathered outside as cops hurried him into the Blair County Courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pa.“He’s irritated, agitated about what’s happening to him and what he’s being accused of,” Dickey told CNN Wednesday.“He never had any legal representation until he walked into that building yesterday.”“It’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and the lived experience!” the 26-year-old shouted.Dickey took credit for being the one to work with Mangione inside the courthouse and calm him down before his frustrations got him into more trouble.“I talked to him … look at the difference between when he went in and when he came out … now he has a spokesperson and someone that’s going to fight for him,” the Pennsylvania-based lawyer said.During his appearance on CNN’s “Erin Burnett Out Front,” Dickey shared his skepticism about the NYPD’s evidence gathering and wants to view the fingerprint and gun ballistic evidence himself as the procedures have known faults throughout its use.“Those two sciences, in and of themselves, have come under some criticism in the past, relative to their credibility, their truthfulness, their accuracy, however you want to do it,” Dickey said.Mangione’s defense team wants to view the evidence and know how the investigators collected the samples and results before having their own “experts” look at the data before “challenge its admissibility and challenge the accuracy of those results.”On Wednesd...