Justice: Subway Hero Daniel Penny Acquitted
A New York jury shockingly made the right decision. Daniel Penny, the young Marine who restrained violent serial criminal Jordan Neely on a subway soon before the drugged-up Neely died, has been acquitted of all charges implicating him in Neely’s death.
Penny placed Neely, who was aggressively threatening other NY subway passengers, in a non-lethal chokehold to subdue him. Neely still had a pulse when police officers arrived, but he subsequently died, likely of a combination of drug-related effects and previous medical conditions. An expert recently testified that Penny didn’t kill Neely, but Penny was still facing manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide charges.
As Ian Miles Cheong posted:
Prior to his altercation with Daniel Penny, Jordan Neely had 42[+] previous arrests including for assaults on three separate women, one of which occurred at a subway station.
He was not a good person, and he should not be remembered as one.
Neely was behaving erratically, threatened passengers, and said he was going to take their lives before Daniel Penny stepped in to resolve the situation. Penny did the right thing and did nothing wrong, and in doing so saved the lives of those passengers.
Thank the Good Lord. And maybe rethink not institutionalizing the mentally ill. Living on the street is not compassionate.
There are dozens of misnamed charges, there is Soros v Trump for example, this one is Soros v Penny. Since Soros paid for all these DA’s his name should be on the charge sheet. It would alert the jury for a start.