REDSTATE | Published December 11, 2024
On Monday, a jury found Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny not guilty of negligent homicide in the Jordan Neely case.
Penny, as RedState readers will recall, put Neely, a mentally ill homeless man with a lengthy criminal history, in a submission hold during a May 2023 subway incident in New York City after Neely reportedly acted aggressively and threateningly towards other passengers.
Neely, who was also restrained by other passengers, was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
It’s an understatement to say that Penny’s life has been turned upside down since that day, especially after being charged by woke District Attorney Alvin Bragg for the apparent crime of intervening to prevent other innocent subway riders from being assaulted by Neely, who according to witnesses said he was “hungry,” willing to go to prison, and was “ready to die” after boarding the subway train.
Though the Usual Suspects on the left accused Penny of being a racist, cold-blooded “murderer,” people fed up with unpunished crime in the Big Apple and elsewhere regarded him as a hero for stepping in at a time when assaults, stabbings, and slashings were on the rise and Soros-funded prosecutors were riding in on soft-on-crime promises.
In the aftermath of the trial, Penny sat down for an interview with FOX Nation, some clips of which are being released Tuesday.
In one of them, Penny talked about how he was “not a confrontational person” and that he was not a man who seeks out attention, saying it makes him uncomfortable. But he also said he would not have been able to live with himself if he had sat back and done nothing and Neely had hurt someone:
I didn’t want any attention or praise, and I still don’t,” he said. “The guilt I would’ve felt if someone did get hurt, if he did do what he was threatening to do, I would never be able to live with myself. And I’ll take a million court appearances and people calling me names and people hating me just to keep one of those people from getting hurt, or killed.”
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“The View” co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin expressed frustration over Daniel Penny being acquitted of negligent homicide.
THE NEW YORK POST | Published December 11, 2024
“The View” co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin expressed frustration over the acquittal of Daniel Penny, the former US Marine who was found not guilty on Monday for the negligent homicide of homeless man Jordan Neely on Monday.
During the Tuesday episode of the ABC daytime talk show, Goldberg criticized Penny and his legal defense team for celebrating the defendant’s not guilty verdict at a bar, while Hostin suggested that the verdict was wrong, because Neely wasn’t seriously threatening anybody on the subway before Penny administered a chokehold on him.
“And so, when you look at that and you look at the result of what happened, my question is, where is our compassion as a society?” Hostin asked, implying justice was not served.
Penny, a 26-year-old Marine veteran and architecture student, was charged last year with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide for the subway chokehold death of Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man with schizophrenia who barged onto the train shouting death threats while high on a type of synthetic marijuana known as K2.
The first charge against Penny was dismissed last week, while he was pronounced not guilty on the second.
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SOURCE: www.nypost.com
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