Man With Pizza Cutter Is Said to Have Tried to Break Mangione Out of Jail

[RandySF]

A man was arrested on Wednesday evening after he arrived at a federal jail in Brooklyn impersonating an F.B.I. agent while carrying a pizza cutter and saying he had a court order to release Luigi Mangione, according to a criminal complaint and people familiar with the incident.

The man, Mark Anderson of Mankato, Minn., was charged in the criminal complaint in federal court with impersonating an F.B.I. agent and is expected to appear in court on Thursday. According to the people familiar with the episode who spoke on the condition of anonymity, Mr. Anderson was trying to free Mr. Mangione.

Since his arrest in the murder of a health care executive, Brian Thompson, Mr. Mangione, 27, has been deluged with support. Many people have contributed to his legal defense fund and have sent him letters, books and personal photographs at the federal jail, the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.

The adulation surrounding Mr. Mangione has horrified many Americans who were shocked by the brutality of the assassination of Mr. Thompson, the chief executive of UnitedHealthcare, in Manhattan, in 2024. Mr. Mangione has been charged with murder in both federal and state court in Mr. Thompson’s death.



https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/nyregion/luigi-mangione-break-out-blade.html

[AZJonnie]

1. Not the sharpest tool in the shed is he?

Kinda like the pizza cutter in my kitchen drawer

[Coventina]

2. The adulation surrounding Mr. Mangione is completely understandable to this American.

I am continually shocked by the brutality of the assassination of my fellow citizens by insurance companies, who maximize profit to the detriment of their customers.

Mr. Thompson probably killed thousands during his time as CEO of United Healthcare.

While I'm not in favor of gunfire in the streets, I feel not one iota of sympathy for the dead executive who earned over $10 million a year through systematic murder.