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Luigi Mangione Trial · NYPD Through The Looking Glass

• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Luigi Chuck Mangioni, accused killer of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, was in the news again this week.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_00: I guess they're having some tri pretrial hearings.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: I know there was something going on with their trying to get the gun tossed out of his um the knapsack where the cops picked him up in Pennsylvania.
• 1:16
  SPEAKER_00: There's an article in the New York Post, and it just shows it's like history repeating itself from the 1960s and 1970s.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: A trio of bloodthirsty fans of accused assassin Luigi Mangioni were granted press passes by New York City Hall, shouted vile hate and unapologetic calls for political violence from a Manhattan Courthouse steps on Monday.
• 1:40
  SPEAKER_00: The self-proclaimed Mangione Citas, Abril Rijos, Ashley Rojas, and Lena Weisbrat proudly showed off their passes they received from Mayor Zorhan Mandami's administration, apparently for their online content documenting Mangioni's upcoming trial for the murder of United Healthcare uh CEO Brian Thompson.
• 2:02
  SPEAKER_00: But the credential reporters chillingly made no bones about supporting Mangioni's alleged vendetta to strike fear into the hearts of healthcare executives, such as Mr.
• 2:11
  SPEAKER_00: Thompson.
• 2:12
  SPEAKER_00: Now get this.
• 2:13
  SPEAKER_00: For whatever reason, the mayor of New York has given three lunatics press passes.
• 2:18
  SPEAKER_00: And it's kind of a kick in the ass to the family of this guy, Brian Thompson.
• 2:23
  SPEAKER_00: Now, they're yelling at the courthouse steps, and these people they get credential press passes, and they're out there yelling, F.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: Brian Thompson, Ro has said, with her press pass dangling from her neck.
• 2:34
  SPEAKER_00: That's all I want to say, F.
• 2:35
  SPEAKER_00: Brian Thompson.
• 2:36
  SPEAKER_00: And his mom.
• 2:37
  SPEAKER_00: Weisbrow, clan uh clad in gar uh Weisbrout, clad in neon green, pink, and purple striped ensemble, and who was apparently colorblind, chimed in with an even more reprehensible response.
• 2:50
  SPEAKER_00: His children are better off without him, she said about the victim.
• 2:53
  SPEAKER_00: They need to learn not to be like their dad.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: Enjoy the blood money, kids.
• 2:57
  SPEAKER_00: Manjoni's ghoulish fans have stoked a carnival-like atmosphere outside past court hearings, displaying free Luigi signs, wearing green hats like the Luigi video game character.
• 3:09
  SPEAKER_00: Weiss Brout apparently received a Fulbright scholarship back in 2015 for curating South African artists identifying as feminists whose hip-hop music is a form of activism, according to a Facebook post from her Florida State University alma mater.
• 3:28
  SPEAKER_00: She frequently wears a Luigi hat on her social media and identifies as a game developer and a rapper with suggestive names named Felicia G.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: So you got these people that get these press passes.
• 3:40
  SPEAKER_00: They're not covering it.
• 3:41
  SPEAKER_00: They're there to make a political statement.
• 3:43
  SPEAKER_00: And this reminds me of the 1960s and the 1970s.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: But let's go to the 60s when you had Charles Manson followers that went up to the hills and killed Sharon Tate and the Lobianco family.
• 3:57
  SPEAKER_00: What happened?
• 3:58
  SPEAKER_00: There were people, well, there were Manson followers, but what did they do?
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: They shaved their heads, they were outside the courthouse, support for Charlie, free Charlie, and then the three women that were arrested for the murders.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: It was a big joke.
• 4:11
  SPEAKER_00: They were all laughing and smiling.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I said this when he got arrested, when there all of a sudden these women, like, oh my God, he's so handsome, he's so handsome.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: I said this.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: I go, this is gonna get really weird, really quick.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_00: I'm a guy, I don't find men attractive, but the guy for me, the guy's got manhole covers his nostrils.
• 4:31
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't really see what the big thing about him other is that he's young.
• 4:36
  SPEAKER_00: And for the New York City mayor's office to give these three people press passes, it's it's a kick in the ass to the press, who I really don't have much respect for these days, but it's a thumb in the eye to society.
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: And, you know, what does so then in the 1970s, after the Manson trials cooled down, what did we have?
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_00: We had the SDS, which then morphed into the Weather Underground, which was setting off bombs and robbing banks and causing all sorts of havoc around the country.
• 5:04
  SPEAKER_00: And that was led by Bernard E.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dorn, William Ayers, who, oh, by the way, after they were supposed to go to jail for all this shit, but the FBI basically dropped the ball because the FBI had this program called COINTELPRO, which basically was doing illegal wiretaps and basically not using the Constitution to go after these people.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: This is towards the end of the Hoover administration.
• 5:27
  SPEAKER_00: And what wound up happening was the Weather Underground broke into an FBI office in rural Pennsylvania and found oodles and oodles of boxes of this shit.
• 5:37
  SPEAKER_00: And I think they turned it over to the New York Times, which of course the New York Times published it.
• 5:42
  SPEAKER_00: The FBI got caught with their pants down, and when they rounded up all these people, basically they they took a play if the FBI would have played it straight, these people would have never gotten out of jail.
• 5:53
  SPEAKER_00: Instead, they were screwing around, bending the rules.
• 5:57
  SPEAKER_00: These people had really good lawyers and they got sweetheart deals.
• 6:00
  SPEAKER_00: So people like Bernadine Dorn and William Ayers and um that guy Flanagan.
• 6:05
  SPEAKER_00: And a lot of these people now are behind the scenes causing problems.
• 6:09
  SPEAKER_00: Like Bernardine Dorn and William Ayers, they launched the political career of Barack Obama from their house.
• 6:15
  SPEAKER_00: And of course, academia has jobs waiting for them to become professors at all these schools and all this bullshit.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_00: A couple of years ago, when we were having all those Black Lives Matters riots, I can't think of the woman's name, but one of the Weather Underground women, I mean, she's 70-something years old, 80-something years old.
• 6:33
  SPEAKER_00: She was heavily involved in all this.
• 6:36
  SPEAKER_00: But what does the SDS, Weather Underground, these these three women that are now like super fans of Luigi Mangioni, like basically mocking the victim's family, Zorhan Mondami, Acasio Orkez, what do they all have in common, including Luigi Mangioni?
• 6:53
  SPEAKER_00: Anyone?
• 6:54
  SPEAKER_00: Anyone?
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: Bueller?
• 6:55
  SPEAKER_00: Bueller?
• 6:56
  SPEAKER_00: They're all spoiled rich kids.
• 6:58
  SPEAKER_00: They all come from money.
• 7:00
  SPEAKER_00: They're all children of privilege.
• 7:02
  SPEAKER_00: They all went to the best of schools, right?
• 7:04
  SPEAKER_00: And they've got nothing going out else going on in their lives.
• 7:07
  SPEAKER_00: They don't really have to work.
• 7:09
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I guess they do, but not really.
• 7:11
  SPEAKER_00: They're not going out there learning to trade.
• 7:13
  SPEAKER_00: They're not busting their ass.
• 7:14
  SPEAKER_00: They don't really know one of these people that really don't know where their next meal comes from.
• 7:20
  SPEAKER_00: Take this woman, Lena Weisbrat, who's outside the courthouse steps with a new press pass.
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  SPEAKER_00: She went to school curating African artists identifying as feminists whose hip-hop music is a form of activism.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: Her parents paid for that.
• 7:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I guess that's money well spent, right?
• 7:35
  SPEAKER_00: But now they're blogging and they got a Patreon channel.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_00: It's nonsense.
• 7:39
  SPEAKER_00: And just the fact that that the Mandami administration gave these people press passes, it's just a thumb in the eye of society.
• 7:47
  SPEAKER_00: But like I keep saying, he's going to get convicted of something.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: I know the gun got thrown out.
• 7:51
  SPEAKER_00: Even if they don't get him on the murder charges, the feds are going to come back at him.
• 7:55
  SPEAKER_00: He'll get the max.
• 7:56
  SPEAKER_00: But mark my words, he's a young guy.
• 7:59
  SPEAKER_00: At some point in his life, if he can stay healthy, he's going to get out of jail.
• 8:03
  SPEAKER_00: And it always happens with the radical left.
• 8:05
  SPEAKER_00: I'm not a fan of the radical right either.
• 8:07
  SPEAKER_00: You take a guy like Eric Rudolph, who was the Olympic Park bomber in 96 Olympic Games.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_00: He bombed abortion clinics.
• 8:14
  SPEAKER_00: He bombed gay bars.
• 8:16
  SPEAKER_00: Guy's a fucking lunatic as far as I'm concerned, even though he's the far right.
• 8:20
  SPEAKER_00: But there's no one in the right who's going to file appeals for this guy.
• 8:24
  SPEAKER_00: There's no one from the right that's putting money in his commissary.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_00: There's nobody from the right that's going to try to get him out of jail.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_00: He's going to die behind bars, and rightfully so.
• 8:33
  SPEAKER_00: But with the left, it's it's never over.
• 8:36
  SPEAKER_00: And they're constantly, they will do whatever it takes.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's about the cause.
• 8:40
  SPEAKER_00: And the cause is more important than anything else.
• 8:43
  SPEAKER_00: And unfortunately, this guy is going to see the light of day.
• 8:46
  SPEAKER_00: So, story two from True Crime in the New York Post.
• 8:49
  SPEAKER_00: More than 200 illegal mopeds and scooters were smashed under a bulldozer's treads on Wednesday as a warning to Scout Laws, yeah, right, who don't register their rides and often use them to commit crimes.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: The so-called crush at a Department of Sanitation Garage in Staten Island accounted for just a fraction of the 5,700 illegal mopeds and scooters NYPD officers have seized this year, according to Police Commissioner Tisch.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_00: The seizures are roughly up 10% from last year.
• 9:16
  SPEAKER_00: Mopeds in the Big Apple are illegal only if they're properly mopeds are illegal in the Big Apple, but only if they're properly registered, insured.
• 9:25
  SPEAKER_00: Mopeds are illegal in the Big Apple, but only if they're properly registered, insured, and their owners are licensed.
• 9:31
  SPEAKER_00: Good luck with that.
• 9:32
  SPEAKER_00: Steps that far too many don't take.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: Tish had a comment: these illegal mopeds and scooters have become a persistent public safety issue across the city and often used in the commission of a crime.
• 9:43
  SPEAKER_00: She said as a bulldozer ran back and forth the multicolor uh vehicles cracking their cheap plastic.
• 9:49
  SPEAKER_00: So here's the thing with these mopeds scooters, and then I know in New York City now you've got quads, dirt bikes, and they're flying all over the place.
• 9:58
  SPEAKER_00: The problem with these things is none of them are street legal for the most part, and no one can get them registered because a lot of them are stolen and a lot of them don't have paperwork.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: So say you live up in Pennsylvania, you got a house up in the Poconos or something, you got a quad or a dirt bike, you got it on your property, right?
• 10:15
  SPEAKER_00: It gets stolen and it gets sold to someone else.
• 10:18
  SPEAKER_00: They don't have paperwork for it, and it's not street legal, so they're never going to register it.
• 10:23
  SPEAKER_00: And what winds up happening is somehow, somehow, they make them they make their way to the five boroughs, and these these, you know, the and these kids get their hands on these things and they're just riding them around.
• 10:33
  SPEAKER_00: And then when we've had the immigration crisis, you got all these illegal aliens from Trendiagua and MS-13 in their country, they jump on the back of these things like fucking banditos, and they're pulling purses and pulling guns on people, and it's a quick way to get the hell out of there.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: It's like that scene in uh Full Metal Jacket when he's talking to me, love you long time, and the fucking guy comes by and takes his camera.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: Same shit.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: It's the only thing is it's happening here.
• 10:59
  SPEAKER_00: You know, when that art when that was posted on Facebook, that story, a lot of people like, well, the city should sell those things, and I get it, and they would make money for it.
• 11:09
  SPEAKER_00: But what's gonna wind up happening is they're just gonna wind up back on the street.
• 11:12
  SPEAKER_00: So if you keep crushing them, you're never gonna eradicate it, but it'll definitely cut down on it.
• 11:18
  SPEAKER_00: This is actually pretty funny.
• 11:19
  SPEAKER_00: A bozo was caught on video tossing a beer keg through the window of a Washington, D.C.
• 11:24
  SPEAKER_00: cupcake shop, causing roughly 10 grand in damages while a terrified baker was inside.
• 11:30
  SPEAKER_00: The suspect was carrying a keg of beer in front of the TLC, featured bakery in Georgetown cut around midnight on Monday, according to surveillance footage posted by the business, the Metropolitan Police Department said.
• 11:42
  SPEAKER_00: The fool with the green t-shirt and khaki pants and a crew cut picked up the keg, lifted it over his head, and awkwardly thrust it through the glass window with a storefront the clip showed.
• 11:50
  SPEAKER_00: He then calmly turned around and crossed the street, leaving a massive pile of glass shards on the sidewalk.
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  SPEAKER_00: The footage from inside the store showed the large metal keg breaking through the massive window and bouncing off a wire rack.
• 12:01
  SPEAKER_00: The cost of the damages is roughly around$10,000.
• 12:05
  SPEAKER_00: Jesus, the price of glass has gone up, huh?
• 12:07
  SPEAKER_00: According to the business.
• 12:08
  SPEAKER_00: The keg tosser remained on the land Monday evening with cops urging anyone with information to call the police.
• 12:14
  SPEAKER_00: This is one of two things.
• 12:16
  SPEAKER_00: It's either this guy had a pro got kicked out of this place, maybe his girlfriend had an issue with somebody in there, or it's just a drunk, big strong guy, and you know, he just figured fuck it.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_00: Picked up the keg and threw it through the window.
• 12:29
  SPEAKER_00: But they've the video is actually pretty good, so more than likely he's gonna get pinched.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: This sounds like a Polish joke, but it really happened.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_00: A Polish truck driver was sent to the slammer for smuggling over$8 million worth of coke in a shipment of underwear and clothing for Kim Kardashian's Skims brand.
• 12:47
  SPEAKER_00: Jakob Jan Konkel?
• 12:49
  SPEAKER_00: Three names.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: 40 years old, was sentenced to 13 years and six months in prison on Monday for stashing a slew of drugs inside his truck carrying 28 pallets of Skims clothing from the Netherlands, according to the National Crime Agency.
• 13:02
  SPEAKER_00: Konkel, from northern Poland, was stopped by border force officers at the port of Essex, England, as he carried on, as he arrived on a ferry with his truck full of celebrity shapeware last September.
• 13:14
  SPEAKER_00: After x-raying his vehicles, investigators discovered the truck had stopped on a journey and picked up 90 packages totaling 198 pounds, snuck the wrap bundles into sp into specially adapted compartment in the truck's back doors.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: The street value was roughly estimated 8.4 million.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_00: Uncle initially denied knowing anything about the stash, but eventually confessed to agreeing to smuggle the drugs for 45,000 euros.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay, roughly 5,276.
• 13:44
  SPEAKER_00: What a moron.
• 13:45
  SPEAKER_00: These drugs destroy lives and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: Schmuck.
• 13:48
  SPEAKER_00: This story is just pure drama and stupidity.
• 13:51
  SPEAKER_00: The Massachusetts McDonald's manager, seen licking French fries and spitting in a carton, served them to her ex-girlfriend, and the unsuspecting victim ate the tainted totters, prosecutors alleged Monday.
• 14:03
  SPEAKER_00: Kaylee Santos, 22 years old and old enough to know better, has been working as a night manager at the Southbridge McDonald's before she was fired and charged with distributing food with a harmful substance over the April incident.
• 14:16
  SPEAKER_00: She could face up to five years in jail if convicted.
• 14:19
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, in Massachusetts, good luck with that.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_00: That's bullshit.
• 14:21
  SPEAKER_00: The customer who received the order was confirmed to be Santos' ex-girlfriend after cops tracked her down to a license plate.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: Santos filmed herself licking an order of fries, then handing it out to a drive-thru window in the April 9th clip, which she posted to Snapchat and Facebook.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_00: What a friggin' idiot.
• 14:37
  SPEAKER_00: Surveillance video from the McDonald's outside of Wort Worcester also showed her spinning in the fry box.
• 14:44
  SPEAKER_00: When your girlfriend wants French fries tonight, she wants French fries, right?
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: Santos was heard saying in the nasty clip.
• 14:50
  SPEAKER_00: Santos ex sought to press charges after learning what had happened.
• 14:54
  SPEAKER_00: Evidence that it was quite evident that Santos only spit on the French fries container before adding fries to it.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: Santos also placed several French fries in her mouth and then placed them in the same container.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: What stupidity.
• 15:06
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, well, first off, the victim, why would you go to eat or stop by a place that your ex works in?
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I remember one time I used to take this girl that lived in Yakers, and many years and you know, many years later, uh I w I went to a restaurant and she was the server.
• 15:26
  SPEAKER_00: And I walked in and I saw her and she saw me, and it really wasn't like a smile, a hi, how you doing?
• 15:33
  SPEAKER_00: And I forget, I whoever I was with, I turned around.
• 15:36
  SPEAKER_00: I said, you know what?
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_00: Let's go somewhere else.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: And it's not even that we had a bat breakup or anything, but I just said, you know what?
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: Why take a chance?
• 15:44
  SPEAKER_00: This one comes rolling through the drive-thru.
• 15:47
  SPEAKER_00: And then the ex, I mean, how dumb is she to post it on on Facebook and Snapchat and whatever.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: Just these young people, man, they're just so frigging stupid.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, on Thursday, I'll be releasing a video.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_00: I did an interview the other day with the author of a great book.
• 16:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's called Gotti's Boys by Anthony Di Stefano.
• 16:07
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's a really good book.
• 16:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's basically goes into the guys that were in John Gotti's crew: Angelo Quackquack Ruggerio, Sammy the Bulgavano, uh, Anthony Tony Roach Rampino, John Caniglia, Charlie Caniglia, Gene Gotti, Joe Watts, Mark Ryder, the heroine trafficker, and much more.
• 16:26
  SPEAKER_00: I was able to track him down.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: I asked him if he wanted to be on an episode.
• 16:29
  SPEAKER_00: He said, Yeah.
• 16:30
  SPEAKER_00: We did the interview last night.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_00: I'll release that on Thursday.
• 16:33
  SPEAKER_00: It's pretty interesting.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: He's got a lot of behind-the-scenes facts and a lot of interesting stories about these guys who basically jettisoned John Gotti's rise to power.
• 16:42
  SPEAKER_00: So look for that on Thursday night.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: Hopefully, this week, the episode I recorded with Matt Cox on Inside True Crime, it'll be a two-hour episode.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_00: He'll launch it uh hopefully this week.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: I'll try to put the link up on my uh on my page somehow.
• 16:56
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• 17:07
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• 17:26
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