Local activist Kala McGuire, a regular presence at the endless “Justice for Sonya Massey” protests, decided September 19, 2025, was the perfect day to post photos of Luigi Mangione—the man who gunned down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in broad daylight—alongside a smug little dig at Mayor Misty Buscher.
Her caption: “The mayor stands with the police and not her citizens? Hm…”
Just the face of a killer next to a rhetorical eye-roll at the mayor for the unforgivable sin of supporting her own police department.
McGuire is part of the same local activist circuit that treats every law-enforcement interaction as proof the system is irredeemably evil—while treating actual murderers who target “the powerful” as folk heroes worthy of soft-focus portraits.
Mangione, for those who somehow missed the national spectacle, stalked and executed a health insurance executive. Certain corners of the internet turned him into a meme, a romanticized avenger against corporate America. McGuire’s decision to pair his image with criticism of Buscher’s pro-police stance doesn’t require a decoder ring. The message lands loud and clear: officials who stand with the cops instead of the activist chorus are the sort of people that McGuire wouldn’t mind seeing “taken care of.”
This is the state of local “activism” in Springfield: when the mayor backs the people who answer 911 calls, the response is to post the face of an assassin. Subtle. Courageous. Definitely the language of people interested in safer streets rather than perpetual grievance.