The news coverage about the initial police encounter with Luigi Mangione, who has been charged with murdering UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last December, describes the routine practice of police officers when they confront a person whom they reasonably suspect of criminal activity.

A pretrial hearing in presently underway presided by Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro in New York to decide on the admissibility of physical evidence taken from Mangione and statements he made.

The police encounter happened at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, five days after the murder, after a police dispatcher received a 911 call from the McDonald’s manager that customers were concerned about a man in the restaurant who resembled surveillance images of Thompson's alleged kill

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