I prefer the way the AP article centered Gisèle Pelicot. The discussion of the sentences was in the light of her bravery and the way her choices have affected the public discourse around rape in France.
I hope she is able to find healing and peace
From some commentary on this photo:
They are treating him like he killed the president or a terrorist on the level of bin Laden as a message and a threat.
There is no subtlety here. The wealth class wants him and his folk hero status dead.This is such a spectacular backfire by the police and media it’s actually kind of shocking. They are continuing to build a very powerful narrative of the folk hero/anti hero and they don’t seem to understand
these photos coming out are doing nothing but cementing that he is infact more powerful then just his act. These are the acts of a state deeply committed to trying to build a counter narrative. This is like a scene from a film. It’s the threat and theatrics of power.
It’s great, serving up exactly what someone who wants to be a folk hero is looking for, notoriety and importance, ending up on the front page of newspapers, TV, etc. Yeah, they’re a bit cooler if they can escape justice, but the trial and associated circus will just serve to martyr them.
Maybe, but to be fair, he’s probably been the target of death threats himself, so this might not just be about messaging, but about actual keeping him safe to get him to court… 
It doesn’t look like they gave him any body armor
They didn’t have to do the outside perp walk. They could have just brought him in underground parking way or back right up to the loading dock.
also, why does the Mayor need to be there?
The executive branch has responsibility for the courts?
Yeah, all good points, both @KathyPartdeux and @womanhood_deferred… I’m not saying that the messaging wasn’t part of it, just that it could be both? Or at the very least that’s how they could justify it?
Who, exactly, are they protecting him from?
Oh, right, they’re not…it’s theater.
[Photo of Luigi Mangione by a gang of police most of whom are carrying sub-machine guns]
Do they think he’s Bruce Wayne? Perhaps he’s going to suddenly snap those cuffs attaching his wrists to his belt and explode into a fury of destruction like Batman? (Or I guess more like the Red Hood.) Yeah, I agree they will justify this performance by mumbling something about Luigi receiving death threats, but this is a dominance display.
Oh yeah, it’s all theatre.
Beat me to it.
I suspect he feels the need to show that he’s In Charge™. Plus, he’s desperately in need of some press that’s better than what he’s been getting recently.
A Michigan man allegedly stabbed the president of the company where he works in a possible “copycat” attack of the execution-style killing of UnitedHealth boss Brian Thompson, police said.
Erik Denslow, who runs the Muskegon-based Anderson Express Inc. manufacturing company, was stabbed during a staff meeting in the firm’s office on Tuesday, according to a statement from the Fruitport Township Police Department.
Law enforcement officials did not name Denslow as the victim, but his identity was later reported by local news outlets News 8 and Fox 17. He is listed in critical condition after being hospitalized, though police say he is expected to survive.
He also likes to pretend he’s still a police officer.
One more detail I hadn’t even thought of: shifting expensive testing/procedures to the following year to reset the counter on the annual deductible.
Monday, December 16 has loomed large on my personal calendar for a while now because that’s when I was scheduled to get a post chemo/radiation scan to see how effective my treatments have been. I had follow-up appointments with a couple of docs to discuss the results.
Got a call a short while ago from someone at the doctor’s office that issued the imaging referral to let me know that the facility hasn’t received authorization for the scan yet, so they had to push it back to 12/31.
I don’t know what your New Year’s Eve plans are, but this is exactly how I’d hoped to spend the last day of this wretched fucking year: fasting before a scan that will let me know whether I should bother buying green bananas next time I’m at the grocery store or stick to fully ripe bunches since I’m likely to croak before the green ones are edible.
But who am I fucking kidding? My shitty, expensive health plan will probably find a way to kick the appointment into 2025 so a new annual $9K+ deductible will be in force again. I mean, that’s cash money that could form an infinitesimally small fraction of an executive bonus, so I’m sure they’ll at least try.
Shooting the people who are responsible for setting up these endless goddamn hoops for sick people to jump through prior to receiving clearly necessary medical care isn’t the solution. I know that. But boy do I understand where all the “fuck that motherfucker” energy came from when the UHC CEO got murdered in broad daylight. He was a cog in an evil fucking machine.