"Stranger Things" star Brett Gelman is speaking out after the arrest of Luigi Mangione -- the suspect charged in the murder of a healthcare executive in New York -- saying while the U.S. healthcare system is broken, that's no excuse to commit murder.
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00:00What is up my man, how are you?
00:03What's up man?
00:04I'm alright, I'm alright.
00:05How are you?
00:06Well, it's a crazy week, you know, the guy that killed the CEO of United Health.
00:13You know, we're seeing the arrests, and we're seeing online people turning him into a hero.
00:21It's this quite polarizing kind of moment.
00:24What's your thoughts on this whole thing?
00:27Well, you know, our healthcare system is horrible.
00:35People are being robbed of their health and their dignity, but at the same time, you know,
00:44it's completely unacceptable to murder someone.
00:48You cannot just kill someone in the street because you don't like, you know, a system.
00:57It's just, that's unacceptable.
01:00And he's mentally ill.
01:03You're mentally ill if you do something like that.
01:05You're not a hero.
01:07Is it crazy?
01:08A hero would be somebody who exposed the healthcare system and took it down through
01:16legal non-violent means.
01:20Right.
01:21Yeah, violence is not the answer.
01:23What do you make of the online hysteria?
01:26I mean, you know, that's what online is, unfortunately.
01:32It's supposed to be this thing that connects us and educates us about each other and increases
01:38empathy and instead it's used to incite hysteria and conspiracy theories and distracts people
01:53from experiencing their life that's happening in front of their face.
01:59And people are taking more credence in what they see on their phone than what they're
02:07getting out of just normal, everyday human interaction.
02:12It's not good.
02:13So much like the healthcare system, the internet needs to be reformed as well and how we digest it.