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A professor on the College of Pennsylvania, the Ivy League establishment UnitedHealthcare capturing suspect Luigi Mangione attended, is retracting her social media posts that appeared to reward him.

Julia Alekseyeva, an Assistant Professor of English and Cinema and Media Research, posted a TikTok video on Monday night time swaying her left index finger backwards and forwards to the tune of “Do You Hear the Individuals Sing?” from the musical Les Misérables.

She wrote: “Have by no means been prouder to be a professor on the College of Pennsylvania.” The publish appeared to check with Mangione’s prior attendance on the college, the place he obtained undergraduate and postgraduate levels. He additionally labored as a educating assistant on the college after commencement.

Alekseyeva individually known as Mangione, 26, “the icon all of us want and deserve” in an Instagram story and reposted a joke article with the headline “Man engages in stunning Italian custom of taking issues into his personal palms.”

Jeffrey Kallberg, deputy dean of the college’s College of Arts and Sciences, issued a press release on Wednesday calling the social media posts “antithetical” to the establishment’s values.

The postings had been “not condoned by the varsity or college,” he wrote. “Upon reflection, Assistant Professor Alekseyeva has concurred that the feedback had been insensitive and inappropriate and has retracted them. We welcome this correction and remorse any dismay or concern this may increasingly have triggered.”

In her personal assertion on Tuesday, Alekseyeva wrote on X: “Late final night time I posted a TikTok, in addition to a number of tales on my Instagram. These had been utterly insensitive and inappropriate, and I retract them wholly. I don’t condone violence and I’m genuinely regretful of any hurt the posts have triggered.”

The Unbiased has emailed her for remark.

Mangione has been accused of fatally capturing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York Metropolis on December 4. He was taken into custody at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, practically 300 miles from the place the crime occurred. On the time of his arrest, police mentioned he was in possession of a gun and a handwritten manifesto in regards to the crime.

He’s since been charged with homicide and is being held in Pennsylvania on gun-related expenses and offering false identification to regulation enforcement. He’s legally difficult his extradition to New York, which might delay the method by over a month.