Luigi Mangione’s lawyer talks legal fight after UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting

Thomas Dickey, the defense attorney for Mangione, who is accused of killing Brian Thompson, discusses his client’s refusal to waive extradition to New York and concerns over evidence in the case.

ABC News is your daily source of breaking national and world news, exclusive interviews and 24/7 live streaming coverage.

ABC News is the home to the #1 evening newscast “World News Tonight with David Muir," “Good Morning America,” “20/20,” “Nightline,” “This Week” with George Stephanopoulos, “ABC News Live Prime” with Linsey Davis, plus the daily news podcast “Start Here.”

Connect with ABC News on social media:

[barbecueman]

“Hey can you violate client lawyer confidentiality for us real quick?”
“No”
“Alright thank you”

[vcwloves]

"The gun looks the same as the one that was used." Yeah, many guns look the same. This isn't proof that he did it.

[bowengass]

He's the defense attorney. What do you expect him to say? He's just doing what's best for his client given the circumstances.

[WilliamSmith-yjuh]

This isn't even an interview, George is just trying to prosecute the case lmao

[GT-wjgl]

Him writing "The parasites had it coming, " being seen as incriminating evidence is funny. Are they also gonna arrest the millions of people who have said the same or similar things about the health insurance industry for years as being complicit in the murder too?

[johnharris]

The fact that this reporter asked him that question at the end if his client told him that he did, it is a total lowball shiesty move. He still has rights

[AthletesTheory]

His lawyer is too smart for a lil reporter 😅

[stormaggeden]

What if Luigi really is innocent?

I wouldnt put it past the government to charge an innocent man

[Mikemikeswehomenow]

It's not illegal to call someone a parasite

[raiz]

This case has waking up people regarding the scam and abuse of the healthcare insurance in USA.

[frothyphilosophy]

Apparently Stephanopolis is judge, jury, and executioner. Gross.

[lindatallon]

CEOS worldwide will NO LONGER SLEEP SOUNDLY

[chaosxinc]

The rage and frustration is so obvious. In every facet of life and on all sides of the political and social spectrum. People are enraged about being ignored and abused. No one wants this to be the answer, but ffs, who can blame people for feeling hopelessly infuriated and left with absolutely ZERO avenues for recourse.

[zucchinikindaslayed]

a friend of his posted a video with him in a store and he turns to the camera and holds up a mochi ice cream pack. She captioned the video: "Luigi Mangione is probably the most googled keyword today. But before all of this, for a while, it was also the only name whose facetime calls I would pick up. He was one of my absolute best, closest, most trusted friends. He was also the only person who, at 1am on a work day, in this video, agreed to go to the store with drunk me, to look for mochi ice cream."

[Cuok]

Select me for the jury, not guilty on all counts.

[DerekCrusco]

1:05 how could George say the gun looks exactly the same as the 1 that was used? Are you serious you can’t really even see the gun that well in the video the video is dark and a little blurry. There is no way to tell from that video that that was the gun that they found on him

[hillpunk]

This is why people get wrongly convicted... a news host pushing his own opinion heavily. This was an interigation not an interview.

[michaelhill]

The gun was filmed on a potato. All we can tell is that it is a dark colored pistol. There are literally many millions of such pistols in the Country.

[lga]

YES THAT IS ALL EVIDENCE THAT WE ARE MANIPULATED AND COERCED INTO SIGNING OFF OUR SAVINGS WHEN WE GET HIT WITH A DISEASE OR WORSE... WHAT IS THIS NEWSCASTERS POINT

[bovinejonie]

I love this guy! I don’t know who he is, but I love him. Free Luigi!!