Legal Insurrection reported Friday that woke Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has charged 24-year-old Marine Daniel Penny with second-degree manslaughter in the death of 30-year-old homeless man Jordan Neely.
Penny was seen in video from May 1st placing Neely in what some have called a headlock, chokehold, or submission hold on an NYC subway train after Neely allegedly behaved in an aggressive and threatening manner, saying he was hungry and didn’t care if he got arrested. The video also shows several other passengers assist in restraining Neely, who had a history of mental health issues and over 40 arrests during his time as a Michael Jackson impersonator on NYC streets, with four of them being for alleged assault.
The felony charge Penny faces comes in the aftermath of over a week of AOC-incited “protests” which saw the activist left take over subways, refuse to allow passengers on and off of the trains, jump on the tracks at one point, and taunt police in typical Antifa/BLM/OWS fashion.
While the Usual Suspects feel Penny should have been charged with murder, others view Penny as a Good Samaritan for stepping in to protect fellow passengers from someone who reportedly acted erratically and aggressively at the time.
According to the New York Post, one alleged witness, a 66-year-old female, said Penny did not take action until the situation reached a boiling point:
The subway rider said Neely, who had a history of mental illness, was threatening passengers after he hopped on an F train in Manhattan.“He said, ‘I don’t care. I’ll take a bullet, I’ll go to jail’ because he would kill people on the train,” the woman said of Neely. “He said, ‘I would kill a motherf—er. I don’t care. I’ll take a bullet. I’ll go to jail.’”The retiree said Penny did not initially engage with Neely during the wild rant until things got out of hand and he felt the urge to step in.“This gentleman, Mr. Penny, did not stand up,” the rider said. “Did not engage with the gentleman. He said not a word. It was all Mr. Neely that was … threatening the passengers. If he did not get what he wants.”[…]“‘Gonna go to jail for life’? What? What penalties involve going to jail for life?” she wondered. “Could you tell me? Yeah, it’s not kicking somebody in the shin, or punching somebody in the face.”
In response to the investigation and charge filed against him, which could carry up to 15 years in prison if convicted, Daniel Penny’s legal team has set up a defense fund on GiveSendGo.
On Friday, after Penny voluntarily turned himself in where he was booked and then released on bond, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis posted a tweet of support, and linked to the fundraising page:
The page got flooded with donations after that, to the point GiveSendGo’s servers were “temporarily overwhelmed”:
Naturally, this set off the Very Online Left, who of course rushed to declare DeSantis a racist and fascist, and also “anti-Semitic” because he criticized Bragg backer George Soros along the way:
Anti-Second Amendment Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) decided to make it about guns even though no guns were used in the Penny/Neely incident:
The “worse than Trump” narrative also made an appearance because of course it did:
As of this writing, Penny’s defense fund has raised close to $1,500,000, so clearly the DeSantis endorsement helped. And the more the radical left complains about it, the higher it’s going to go.
In other words, keep talking, leftists. Just keep on talking.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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