The staged theatrics here are a masterclass in how justice gets smothered by political grandstanding. That perp walk wasn’t law enforcement—it was a propaganda reel for a mayor desperate to deflect from his own dumpster fires.

Defense counsel’s right: Mangione’s being used as a human prop in this narcissist theater. When elected officials start pre-trying cases on camera, the presumption of innocence becomes collateral damage.

Federal and state prosecutors playing jurisdictional ping-pong with a life? Classic systemic rot. But hey, at least the discovery demands a two-terabyte drive. Nothing unites bureaucracy like exponential data bloat.