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Altoona, Pennsylvania police officers say they lied to Mangione that they were only there because he was violating the McDonald’s ‘no loitering’ policy, in order to keep him calm.

‘If you get the New York City shooter, I’ll buy you a hoagie,’ one Altoona, Pennsylvania lieutenant tells a patrol officer as he is headed out to the McDonald’s to confront Mr. Mangione.

A corrections officer says he and Mr. Mangione compared privatized and nationalized healthcare systems.

Mangione’s defense is seeking to have evidence – including the gun found in his backpack and a notebook containing his writings – suppressed from evidence.

The defense is also seeking to have the arresting officers barred from identifying Mangione as the person in surveillance images from New York City.

Defense attorneys are asking the judge to bar prosecutors from revealing the content of Mangione’s notebook and to bar it from being called ‘a manifesto.’


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