Luigi Mangione shouts about ‘an insult to the American people’ during his perp walk into extradition hearing

• Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the UnitedHealthcare CEO’s killing, shouted to the press on Tuesday.
• He referred to “an insult to the American people” as police led him into a Pennsylvania courthouse.
• Mangione is fighting his extradition to New York, where he’s facing a murder charge.

Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is fighting his extradition to New York where he is facing a murder charge.

The 26-year-old Ivy League graduate appeared for his extradition hearing at Pennsylvania’s Blaire County Court House on Tuesday — a day after police in the city of Altoona arrested him on local charges.

At the start of the hearing, Mangione’s attorney Thomas Dickey told the judge that his client was contesting his extradition to New York.

Judge David Consiglio denied Mangione’s request for bail. Mangione has 14 days to challenge that decision.

Mangione will remain at Pennsylvania’s Huntingdon State Correctional Institution as the extradition proceedings continue.

The office of New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will now need to submit what’s known as a “governor’s warrant” to the office of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro in order to make a formal extradition request.

A spokesperson for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg confirmed that his office will seek a governor’s warrant in order to secure Mangione’s extradition to New York.

A New York arrest warrant issued for Mangione shows that he faces a second-degree murder charge —which carries a maximum sentence of life in prison — for the December 4 Midtown Manhattan killing of Thompson.

Mangione also faces four other charges related to the killing of the insurance CEO: two counts of criminal possession of a weapon in the second-degree, one count of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, and one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the third-degree, according to the warrant obtained by Business Insider.

Mangione screamed to the media as he was led into the courthouse

Moments before Tuesday’s hearing began, Mangione, handcuffed and wearing an orange prison jumpsuit, shouted out to the press as Pennsylvania police escorted him into the courthouse.

Mangione yelled out something partially unintelligible, calling it “completely out of touch” and “an insult to the American people.” He also shouted that something was a “lived experience” as a group of officers led him into the courthouse.

It’s not clear what else Mangione yelled toward reporters who had gathered outside the courthouse.

Police arrested Mangione on Monday in Altoona, Pennsylvania, on local charges after they found him in a McDonald’s with a 3-D-printed gun inside his backpack, according to police and a criminal complaint.

His arrest capped a dayslong manhunt launched after Thompson — a 50-year-old father of two from Minnesota — was shot dead in the heart of Manhattan in what police have described as a “brazen, targeted attack.”

During Mangione’s arrest, officers found a three-page handwritten so-called manifesto “that speaks to both his motivation and mindset,” New York Police Department Commissioner Jessica Tisch said at a Monday press conference.

That document revealed “anti-corporatist sentiment” and “a lot of issues with the health care industry,” Tisch said during an interview Tuesday morning on NBC’s “Today” show.

“But as to like particular, specific motive that’ll come out as this investigation continues to unfold over the next weeks and month,” the NYPD commissioner said.

This story has been updated.