This article comes from “infowars.com”
Daniel Penny has been acquitted in the chokehold death of a mentally unstable man, Jordan Neely, on Monday after jurors sided with Penny’s defense attorneys who had argued that the Marine veteran was justified in rushing to protect fellow subway riders in May 2023.
The verdict followed the dismissal by the judge last week of the most serious count against Penny, manslaughter, after the jury twice said they couldn’t reach a unanimous decision.
BREAKING: Daniel Penny found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide. Protests erupt outside of courthouse in reaction to the verdict. pic.twitter.com/rWMKPWfMEj
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 9, 2024
After that, they considered the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide, of which they found him not guilty.
Both charges were felonies and carried the possibility of prison time.
Penny’s defense counsel had argued that the chokehold didn’t kill Neely, claiming Neely’s health issues and drug use led to his death.
The prosecution argued that even if that was the case, Penny had broken the law because he held Neely in a chokehold even after he was no longer a threat.
Penny reportedly received an immediate death threat from BLM co-founder ‘Hawk’ Newsome immediately after the verdict was announced.
Neely's Father removed from Courtroom for speaking
— Joseph Brucker (@jbrucj) December 9, 2024
The legacy media for months had portrayed Penny as some kind of white supremacist for stepping in to restrain Neely from continuing to threaten subway passengers in New York City in 2023.
“The case amplified many American fault lines, among them race, politics, crime, urban life, mental illness and homelessness. Neely was Black. Penny is white,” the AP reported Monday.