A jury in Manhattan found Marine veteran Daniel Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide on Monday for putting a mentally ill homeless man, Jordan Neely, into a choke hold on a subway ...
It is razor thin, as the trial of Daniel Penny has shown. Penny is a white, former Marine who put Jordan Neely, a Black man, in a six-minute choke hold in the New York subway in May 2023.
"Daniel Penny could have let go before Jordan died. He continued to choke him 50 seconds after he was lifeless. He continued to choke him. There's no reason for that," Mills said. Family attorneys ...
"Daniel Penny is a racist, classist ... "People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud? How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us?" he added.
Daniel Penny was acquitted Monday of criminally negligent ... even laudable,” but that he was reckless when he continued to choke Neely even after he posed no threat, including after the train ...
Although Penny himself told police he’d used “a choke” or “a chokehold ... Instead, he became the victim of not only Daniel Penny’s outrageous and unacceptable vigilantism, and ...
A Black Lives Matter activist called on “black vigilantes” to avenge Jordan Neely’s death immediately following Daniel Penny’s acquittal Monday. “People want to jump up and choke us and ...
NEW YORK -- Daniel Penny has been acquitted in the chokehold ... saying Marines are trained not to hold a choke longer than five seconds. On cross examination, the instructor said five seconds ...
A Manhattan jury acquitted Long Island native Daniel Penny Monday in the chokehold ... "It was not a textbook Marine blood choke, but a blood choke modified as a simple civilian restraint ...
SÞ S Ò¶NÚÃg$¯­ &+BNZ PµHȼ`õǯ?ÿü÷g 0îþÿ €`4™-V›Ýátqus÷ðôòöñõó÷äOíÿ¿~5Éø&ܵdI4 /ûŽÓí4÷”}; D3 B1¶y: jZ}þ“è5¦¬ ...
Penny further denied that he intentionally killed Neely, adding, “Some people say I was trying to choke him to death, which is also not true. I was trying to restrain him. You can see in the ...
arguing that Penny knew the choke hold could be fatal. The prosecution also had to demonstrate that Penny’s choke hold was the cause of Neely’s death, a contention the defense disputed.