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.

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.

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 ...

"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 ...

The trial over the death of Jordan Neely, which made Penny a right-wing cause célèbre, became a flash point in the debate over crime and vigilantism in big cities.

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 ...

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 ...

In finding the 26-year-old not guilty in the death of Jordan Neely, the jury has rejected a racialized criminal justice system that sees white people as evil and black people as perpetual victims.

That's when another passenger, Daniel Penny, took him to the ground in a choke hold that lasted for almost six minutes. When Penny let go, Neely was unresponsive. He was later pronounced dead at a ...

It’s no surprise that a jury of his peers acquitted Daniel Penny, 26 ... Medical examiner Cynthia Harris cited the choke hold as the cause of death before toxicology tests were completed.