The McDonald’s restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where indicted suspect Luigi Mangione Murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — visited after the shooting, has been flooded with negative reviews since his arrest. The bad ratings poured in after it was reported that a restaurant employee told police that Mangione had been spotted there.
Google has since removed the reviews because they violate company policies, a Google spokesperson told CBS News. For one, content that “is not based on real experience and does not accurately represent the location or product in question” is banned by the search giant.
By late Tuesday morning, at least a few negative reviews that didn’t appear to come from real customers persisted online.
“I saw rats running into the kitchen here!! Stay away!” I read one review, which seemed to allude to a McDonald’s employee’s tip to the police that ultimately led them to Mangione.
“More like Narc-donalds…I hope obesity and heart disease are networked in Pennsylvania. Deny, defend, drop off, diarrhea at McDonald’s…” read another, referencing in part to the three words police say were written on three of the separate shell casings found at the shooting scene.
Altoona police found a handwritten note in a backpack belonging to Mangione. After speaking with the Altoona Police Department, New York Police Department Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said the document appears to indicate that Mangione “has some ill will toward corporate America.”
Thompson’s murder unleashed a torrent of vitriol in the insurance industrywith UnitedHealthcare customers turn to social networks to attack the practices of the company and the industry as a whole.
“We’ve gotten to a point where health care is so inaccessible and unaffordable that people are justified in their frustrations,” Dr. Céline Gounder, CBS News medical contributor and public health editor at CBS, told CBS News. KFF Health News. Mornings where the public expresses its frustrations.
