“Behind the Viral Perp Walk: How Luigi Mangione’s Arrest Sparked Fury at NYPD’s Dramatic Design”

As George Bonanno, a clinical psychology professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College, said, his anger with the healthcare system has been “boiling for some time,” something many Americans can relate to. 

“If you’re treated unjustly by the healthcare system, you have no recourse at all… That feeling makes people feel helpless and angry and have desires of doing something,” he stated. 

And then enter Luigi — a guy who just “comes along and does it.”

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ADVERTISEMENTAdditionally, the information released on who the 26-year-old is sparked a change of thought for many netizens. To them, he’s just a regular person.

From being the valedictorian of an elite private school who later went on to study at an Ivy League, Luigi is simply “framed as ‘one of us,’” according to Ioana Literat, a communications professor at the same college as Bonanno. 

The dramatics of it all reminded netizens of superhero Hollywood movies

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