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   Make that whore of an activist Jew left-wing liberal prosecutor ride the   
   subway back and forth to the trial.   
      
   Dist. Atty. Off.   
   1 Hogan Pl, New York, NY 10013-4311   
      
   She's a coward.  She set all her social media shit to private as soon as   
   the Penny trial started.   
      
   https://twitter.com/dafnayoran?lang=en   
      
   NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors and defense lawyers agree on this about   
   Marine veteran Daniel Penny’s encounter last year with a distressed,   
   angry man making ominous remarks on a New York subway: Penny didn’t mean   
   to kill him.   
      
   But a prosecutor told jurors Friday that Penny “went way too far” in   
   trying to neutralize someone he saw as a threat and not as a person,   
   while a defense attorney said Penny showed “courage” and put others’   
   welfare ahead of his own when he placed Jordan Neely in a chokehold that   
   ended with Neely limp on the floor.   
      
   Both sides gave opening statements Friday in the manslaughter trial   
   surrounding Neely’s death. The case has rattled fault lines surrounding   
   race, homelessness, perceptions of public safety and bystanders’   
   responsibility.   
      
   Penny’s critics see him as a white vigilante killer of a Black man who   
   was behaving erratically and making dire statements but wasn’t armed and   
   hadn’t assaulted or even touched anyone in the subway car. Supporters   
   credit the 25-year-old Penny with taking action to protect frightened   
   riders — action that he has said was meant to defuse, not kill.   
      
   Prosecutor Dafna Yoran told jurors the case isn’t “a referendum on our   
   society’s failure to deal with mental illness and homelessness on the   
   subway,” nor on police response, on whether Penny had a right to   
   intervene before officers arrived or even on whether his initial   
   decision to use a chokehold was appropriate.   
      
   Rather, she said, “He used far too much force for far too long. He went   
   way too far.”   
      
   She said he showed “indifference” toward Neely and “didn’t recognize   
   his   
   humanity.”   
      
   Not so, said defense lawyer Thomas Kenniff. He told jurors that Penny   
   applied only as much force as needed to contain a “seething, psychotic”   
   man who had lunged toward a woman with a small child and declared, “I   
   will kill.”   
      
   “In that moment, Danny could look away and pray, or he could summon the   
   courage to put the safety of his neighbors above that of himself, to   
   protect those who could not protect themselves,” and he did the latter,   
   Kenniff said.   
      
   “It doesn’t make him a hero. But it doesn’t make him a killer.”   
      
   Jurors, who were quizzed earlier about their subway experiences, later   
   saw police body camera video of officers trying to revive Neely on the   
   subway floor and Penny calmly explaining he had “put him out.”   
      
   The case has been absorbed into the United States’ fractious politics,   
   with Republican officials speaking up for Penny and Democratic ones   
   attending Neely’s funeral. Both supporters and critics of Penny have   
   held demonstrations; Penny arrived at the courthouse Friday to critical   
   chants from a small group of protesters.   
      
   Once in court, Penny sat straight up in his seat at the defense table,   
   mostly looking directly ahead. A member of Neely’s family who was in the   
   audience sometimes sniffled with tears.   
      
   “We know who the victim is in this case, and we know who the villain   
   is,” family lawyer Donte Mills said outside court.   
      
   Neely’s life was tattered by mental illness and drug use after his   
   mother was murdered and stuffed in a suitcase when he was a teen, his   
   family has said. By 30, he sometimes entertained subway riders as a   
   Michael Jackson impersonator, but he also had a criminal record that   
   included assaulting a woman at a subway station.   
      
   Penny, an architecture student who served four years in the Marines, was   
   going from a college class to a gym when he encountered Neely on a   
   subway May 1, 2023.   
      
   Neely was begging for money, shouting about being willing to die or go   
   to jail, and making sudden movements, according to witnesses. Yoran said   
   Neely talked about hurting people.   
      
   Penny put his arm around the man’s neck, took him to the floor and held   
   Neely there, with Penny’s legs around him.   
      
   With a bystander recording some of the encounter on video, Penny held   
   Neely for about six minutes, Yoran said. The hold continued as the train   
   stopped at a station, all but two fellow riders got off, those two   
   helped restrain Neely, and another warned Penny, “If you don’t let him   
   go now, you’re going to kill him,” according to her statement and court   
   papers.   
      
   Kenniff said Penny was pleading with fellow passengers to call police   
   and that he kept holding Neely because the man periodically flailed or   
   tried to get up.   
      
   Penny ultimately released Neely nearly a minute after his body went   
   limp, prosecutors said. He waited for police, but Yoran noted that   
   although Penny was trained in first aid, he didn’t check Neely’s   
   breathing or pulse or try to revive him.   
      
   Penny later told police that he had simply wanted to “de-escalate” the   
   edgy situation and wasn’t trying to injure Neely but rather “to keep him   
   from hurting anyone else.”   
      
   City medical examiners determined that Neely died from compression of   
   the neck. Penny’s lawyers question that finding.   
      
   https://apnews.com/article/daniel-penny-subway-chokehold-death-t   
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