New York City’s dramatic arrest of Luigi Mangione looked like a scene ripped from Silence of the Lambs. Mayor Adams played the senator, flanked by hundreds of NYPD officers, welcoming Mangione at the Wall Street helipad like he was Hannibal Lecter himself.
Sure, Mangione has inspired folk-hero status among Americans fed up with health insurers. But the mayor’s over-the-top theatrics were ridiculous. After all, it’s axiomatic that Mangione’s supporters are keyboard warriors – more interested in racking up social media likes and retweets than in attacking the police to free him.
Frankly, mobilizing an army of cops for this one arrest made New York’s finest look more like robocops on a movie set than real cops on the beat.
