Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (N.Y.) says the real danger on New York City's subways is from lunatics like the late Jordan Neeley, who threatened to kill a straphanger before ex-Marine Daniel Penny stopped him. I don't think he is a homicidal maniac.
Rather, the real danger is men like Penny, who put Neely in a chokehold. Expert witnesses in Penny's manslaughter trial said Neely later died from various causes unrelated to strangulation.
A jury found Penny not guilty yesterday of a lesser charge of murder and deadlocked on a charge of second-degree manslaughter on Friday.
However, police, calling the former bartender AOC, declared Penny guilty. She says men like Penny have to stop.
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In New York City, an oasis of far-left cuisine, Penny's innocence was far from certain. But in an imitation of the real-life Gotham of that night, in which criminal illegal aliens and others terrorize the population, only to be terrorized even more on a daily basis, it was difficult for the jury to convict Penny. It was too heavy.
Neely was one of them. Neely, a violent career criminal who has been arrested more than 40 times, was killed on the subway on May 1st. Or so witnesses told the grand jury, he said.
“Someone is going to die today,” he told terrified commuters. So Penny took action. He subdued the violent sociopath with a chokehold and held him until authorities arrived. Neely passed away.
However, forensic pathologist Dr. Satish Chundru, an expert witness for the defense, said that Neely was not involved in Penny's strangulation, but rather “a combination of sickle cell crisis, schizophrenia, struggle and restraint, and synthetic marijuana.” He claimed that he died due to the effects of
More than 40 witnesses testified at the trial. Some claimed that Neely was “satanic.” Some believed Penny saved their lives.
On Friday, the jury deadlocked on the second-degree manslaughter charge, so prosecutors dismissed it. And yesterday, a jury found him not guilty of criminally negligent homicide.
The ruling infuriated Black Lives Matter extremist Hank Newsom. After the manslaughter charges were dismissed, jurors accused him of being a “white supremacist” who had delivered “another victory” to the Ku Klux Klan. Following yesterday's decision, he said the city needs “black vigilantes” to teach the city's whites a lesson.
Thus emerged this congresswoman who became the subject of deserved ridicule on social media.
Recent comments are in line with other insane statements she has made.
She said the verdict “speaks for itself.” If we don't want violence on the subway, and the whole point of our justice system is the level of accountability to stop people who have no qualms about taking the lives of others. ” she said.
This means that even people who commit manslaughter or who accidentally lose their lives express remorse.
The fact that a person has not expressed remorse indicates the risk that it will happen again. And if we don't want to unleash that level of violence, we have to have some accountability to prevent that.
Except Penny isn't involved in “manslaughter” or any other crime. Or so the jury declared.
X users responded as expected.
“This is what happens when you have a bartender in government. No disrespect to bartenders, but she only has a BLM Democratic agenda/factual narrative,” user X wrote:
Everyone on the subway feared for their safety and thanked Daniel Penny. Also, although Neely was alive when New York City EMTs arrived, they chose not to treat him.
I wrote something else:
The only thing she has a problem with is that Daniel Penny is white.
If an illegal immigrant had saved a crowded train in the same way that day.
There will already be a statue.
“She can say this because she would never be in a situation like this,” another wrote on the video of the brutal subway assault.
Another user pointed out the obvious point that if Neely had been in prison, he would have been alive. Instead, the city allowed him to terrorize subway passengers until someone stopped him, with an unfortunate end.
Yes, if Neely had been accountable, he wouldn't have been threatening people on the subway while having a warrant for assault. He wouldn't have died. He will go to jail instead.
Neely's unwelcome presence on the subway was partly the fault of District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who was blamed in an editorial by the New York Post.
The editorial said, “Rejoice, New Yorkers. After all, there is hope for this city.”
How much hope there is is open to question.
“This was the right outcome of a Kafkaesque ordeal. Penny should never have been dragged into court in the first place,” the editorial continued.
But Bragg did it anyway, playing to his far-left, race-obsessed base.
Bragg's prosecutors also relentlessly attacked Perry at trial, routinely calling him a “white man” and accusing him of racially motivated motives. This was despite witness after witness confirming that the entire train was horrified by Neely's actions on that F train.
In Penny's acquittal, the jury categorically rejected Bragg's progressive pro-crime policies that turned Gotham into a playground for repeat offenders and an open-air psychiatric ward for the mentally ill.
The editorial called on far-left Governor Cathy Hochul to remove Mr. Bragg, who was elected with the support of Hungarian communist billionaire George Soros.
Hochul has the authority to do so, Republican Rep. Mike Lawler wrote in the Post.
