Rutgers University Professor Calls for Freeing of Alleged Murderer Luigi Mangione During ‘Fat Liberation’ Panel at Harvard (VIDEO)

A professor from Rutgers University, who is also an ‘artist in residence’ at Harvard, recently called for freeing alleged killer Luigi Mangione during a ‘Fat Liberation’ panel at the Ivy League school.

For months now, various figures on the left have worked hard to transform Mangione from accused killer to American folk hero. It’s utterly bizarre.

The left keeps showing themselves to be on the wrong side of the law in horrific cases and this one is no exception.

FOX News reports:

Roxane Gay, Rutgers University professor artist-in-residence for Harvard’s Master of Science in Media, Medicine and Health and Media and Medicine Certificiate Program at Harvard Medical School, called for the release of Luigi Mangione, who pleaded guilty in August to federal stalking charges resulting in death in connection with the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, during a Harvard panel Wednesday examining fatness and healthcare.

When the discussion turned to the health insurance industry, Gay responded, “Free Luigi, for one,” and then Gay went on to call the health insurance industry “equal opportunity evil,” The College Fix reported.

In a Wednesday post on X from Stu Smith, an investigative analyst at the Manhattan Institute, Smith wrote, “At tonight’s Harvard Medical School event, artist-in-residence Roxane Gay responded to a question about the health insurance industry with ‘Free Luigi.’”

Smith continued, “Minutes earlier, Gay admitted she uses concierge medicine after deciding to ‘throw money at this problem’ and ‘buy my way out’ of ordinary healthcare. Gay, incidentally, is former Harvard president Claudine Gay’s first cousin. We all know Harvard is morally bankrupt at this point, but this was a great reminder.”

Gay made the remarks during the Harvard Medical School’s “Against the Pathology of Unruly Bodies” event, which focused on what organizers described as the “intersection of fatness and healthcare” and how medical professionals treat overweight patients.

See the clip below:

🚨 At tonight’s Harvard Medical School event, artist-in-residence Roxane Gay responded to a question about the health insurance industry with “Free Luigi.”

Minutes earlier, Gay admitted she uses concierge medicine after deciding to “throw money at this problem” and “buy my way… pic.twitter.com/i8EBRhPopA

— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) October 1, 2026

Here is the official poster from tonight’s event, which was an absolute hot mess from start to finish, to put it politely. pic.twitter.com/mzruT2OURl

— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) October 1, 2026

Higher education in the United States is such a hot mess.