Daniel Penny: NOT GUILTY
“Mr. Penny, you have no further business before this court, you are discharged.”
The jury has come back in the Daniel Penny case.
It’s so weird to me. The jury deliberated the first charge, second degree manslaughter, for so long and couldn’t reach a decision.
The second count? Hardly any time.
The panelists acquitted Penny of criminally negligent homicide — which could have put him behind bars for up to four years — in Neely’s chokehold death aboard a crowded uptown F train in May 2023.
Manslaughter, the top charge against Penny, was tossed on Friday after jurors twice said they couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict.
Jurors sided with Penny’s defense attorneys, who had argued that the Marine veteran was justified in rushing to protect his fellow subway straphangers when he subdued the erratic homeless man. The lawyers had also questioned whether there was sufficient evidence that the chokehold caused Neely’s death.
Daniel Penny found not guilty pic.twitter.com/HrT16ER0nA
— Karli Bonne’ 🇺🇸 (@KarluskaP) December 9, 2024
BREAKING NEWS: Jury finds Daniel Penny not guilty of negligent homicide. pic.twitter.com/AhaucyvGQz
— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) December 9, 2024
"Mr. Penny, you have no further business before this court, you are discharged," judge says. He leaves from the side, unusually, so he doesn't have to run the gauntlet of this now very hostile (verbally) audience of crying, yelling people.
— Nicole (@nicolegelinas) December 9, 2024
BREAKING: Daniel Penny was just found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide.
Count 1: Dismissed
Count 2: Not Guilty.Daniel Penny is free. pic.twitter.com/VgwZBEFpPj
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 9, 2024
Reactions
As you can imagine, the family was not happy.
Jordan Neely’s dad: “What are we gonna do, people? What’s gonna happen to us now? I had enough of this. The system is rigged. Come on, people. Let’s DO SOMETHING about this.”
From what I can remember, the Neely family hadn’t seen Jordan in a long time. Where have they been as he struggled with drug use and mental health problems?
Jordan Neely supporter: “When Jordan came on that subway car, the first thing he asked for was food. And he was killed.”
Leftists are also not happy.
HAWK NEWSOME
"ITS A SMALL WORLD BUDDY"
— Joseph Brucker (@jbrucj) December 9, 2024
"NO JUSTICE NO PEACE"
Audible immediately from the courtroom https://t.co/SHg1on699u
— Joseph Brucker (@jbrucj) December 9, 2024
JUST IN: Jordan Neely's father reacts to Daniel Penny being found innocent.
"What are we gonna do, people? What's gonna happen to us now? I had enough of this. The system is rigged. Come on, people. Let's DO SOMETHING about this." pic.twitter.com/FK2KNR0sOM
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 9, 2024
Jordan Neely's father Andre Zachary, who abandoned him as a child, placed him in foster care after his mother's murder when he was a teenager, and did not care about him while he was homeless says "I miss my son" and "this system is rigged." pic.twitter.com/g6KMWNcXJE
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 9, 2024
Furor outside Manhattan Supreme Court as Daniel Penny is a aquitted of criminally negligent homicide for the chokehold death of Jordan Neely, the last charge he faced. pic.twitter.com/H1EAsfhGfo
— Gwynne Hogan (@GwynneFitz) December 9, 2024
Jordan Neely supporter: "When Jordan came on that subway car, the first thing he asked for was food. And he was killed." pic.twitter.com/hLwg6Izp1s
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 9, 2024
Daniel Penny was acquitted in the death of Jordan Neely.
The jury without Black folks found him not guilty of criminally negligent homicide today after the judge dismissed the charge of manslaughter on Friday after the jury was deadlocked.
Travesty. pic.twitter.com/uvPZwWOLsz
— Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@ArtCandee) December 9, 2024
🚨BLM protestors and Jordan Neely’s family leaving the court in Manhattan after Daniel Penny found NOT GUILTY
Not happy‼️
The rest of BLM is shouting “Justice for Jordan Neely”#FreeDanielPenny pic.twitter.com/lkXXBMW76m
— Lenka Houskova White (@white_lenka) December 9, 2024
🚨Jordan Neely’s Father just told the world “Let’s Do Something” after Daniel Penny was acquitted of all charges. What does he mean? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/H9zjR9l2bN
— Professor Nez (@professornez) December 9, 2024
NEW: Daniel Penny visibly smiles for the first time during the entire case after being found INNOCENT.
"She sees him visibly smile, now hearing that jurors decided he is not guilty of criminally negligent homicide." pic.twitter.com/MRX3fiqEKG
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 9, 2024
Looking forward to Daniel Penny owning the @AP after winning a libel suit. https://t.co/lsW5KJcLqn
— David Steinberg (@realDSteinberg) December 9, 2024
Bluesky Libs react to Daniel Penny’s not guilty verdict with calls to defund the police and murder Penny and other white men. pic.twitter.com/4mNgcho6jK
— Bluesky Libs (@BlueskyLibs) December 9, 2024
Protests
Getting unruly.
NOW: "This is sick!" Protesters arrested as they are outraged over Daniel Penny 'Not Guilty' virdict outside NYC Court.
Video by @olgafe_images @FreedomNTV [email protected] to license pic.twitter.com/PDdS7QjJda
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) December 9, 2024
BLM New York calls for vengeance from black vigilantes after the acquittal of Daniel Penny in Manhattan.
"People wanna jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud? How about we do the same?" pic.twitter.com/UeqDo13kIe
— Andy Ngo 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) December 9, 2024
Fox’s @HarrisFaulkner unloads on the far-left, #BLM crowds seething over the Daniel Penny case
“There are threats outside to take people out because this hinged on race suddenly. Like, suddenly this hinged on race. Black Lives Matter group getting together and saying if you do… pic.twitter.com/LPZmEq8dHr
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) December 9, 2024
"They’re going to hear us f*cking tonight…y’all gonna get your moneys worth tonight motherf*ckers.” – protesters following Daniel Penny’s acquittalpic.twitter.com/2mIHMW0jq6
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 9, 2024
Protesters continue to react to Daniel Penny being acquitted outside of a Manhattan courthouse. pic.twitter.com/yr0w4YwHQM
— Dean_Moses (@Dean_Moses) December 9, 2024
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Fabulous! Another example that this country is headed out of Bizarro World.
NYC is lagging the rest of the world.
Better late than never. I’m glad they picked this case to join the rest of us.
Great news!
Wow!!! Now to transfer the nightmare to Bragg for this attempted miscarriage of justice.
Bragg is now on the national sh!t-list for two high-profile cases. He’s the poster-child for abusing our system of justice. Have people had enough or have they just stopped caring?
He is nothing but a racial justice warrior. Same with that broad in Atlanta.
There’s an army base in NC that’s roughly the size as his big fat azz. Maybe they could name the base Ft Bragg in honor of him the big cases he has won.
The national shit-list doesn’t affect him. So long as he’s not on the Manhattan shit-list he’s golden.
Transfer it how? There’s nothing that can be done to him.
I guess mocking and derisive laughter will have to do.
Maybe he can get his old Cosby Kids gig…
Mocking and derisive laughter are appropriate, but he doesn’t care about them.
Thank Christ.
The process is the punishment.
ARREST D.A. Alvin Bragg NOW.
Justice is not served if there is NOT a Duke Lacrosse ending for those who pushed this prosecution.
Arrest him for what? And on whose authority? Anyone who arrested him would only end up in prison themselves.
And no Nifong ending is possible here. He has absolute immunity for his acts as a prosecutor. Nifong’s mistake was conspiracy to withhold evidence, and making false statements to the court; but there’s no indication Bragg did anything like that here.
That is the real problem. Prosecutors have absolute immunity to bring whatever charges they want in the hopes that something sticks.
The only way to get a conviction would have been to ignore all the witnesses/other victims who said Penny did the right thing.
The New York Legislature should impeach Bragg for bringing an obvious self-defense case to trial.
I don’t think the legislature can impeach a DA. But even if it could it wouldn’t. Solid Dem territory.
Perhaps this is something the DOJ civil rights division should take a good, hard look at, once we replace the communists there with Americans.
Finally.
Still, it is just two drops of sanity in an ocean of woke insanity.
And remember, guilty or innocent, the process is the punishment.
Someone explain how you get a unanimous not guilty jury verdict for the lesser included charge and a hung jury on the main charge?
Wasn’t the lesser charge basically the same crime but with a smaller amount of intent required. If you don’t have the intent required for the lesser charge how can you have the intent required for the greater charge?
Someone who emerged as a leader on the jury said to the one hold-out, “Cut the shit, we all want to go home.”
I was a juror in a similar situation. The defendant was charged with two drug-related offenses. We agreed “not guilty” on charge one. But one juror held out for a guilty verdict on the second charge, even though the charge couldn’t apply if the defendant wasn’t guilty of the first! We could not convince him of his faulty logic, and remained deadlocked. The second charge was ultimately dismissed by the court.
I was figuring it meant someone was being an idiot. I just wanted some verification that it wasn’t me.
So we’re looking at something like one holdout on the top charge that was convinced he was guilty of trying to kill but not guilty of accidentally killing.
He may have figured he already lost, the max this guy will get is a short sentence, so he may as well give up fighting.
I think they knew he wasn’t guilty but didn’t want to find him not guilty of everything because of fear. So they said “We’ll say we’re deadlocked and punt to another jury. ” Then the judge did his BS with dismissing the first charge and they realized they weren’t getting out of it that easily. And after awhile they probably rationalized that finding Penny not guilty of Negligent Homicide was less bad (riot wise) than finding him guilty of Manslaughter. Plus they could each always claim they were one of the ones who was holding out to convict on the Manslaughter charge and the others just bullied them into an acquittal on the lesser charge after.
Hat tip to all the people who said, “they hung on the first charge, no way they will acquit on the lesser one.” And I was one of them. Looks like we made the mistake of assuming NYC jurors are at all rational.
Maybe they just wanted to go home.
It makes sense. They have windows that need boarding, and not much time.
Good point!
It is really bizarre, you never know what a jury will do.
This is wonderful and completely unexpected. It means juror(s) who held out to convict on more serious charge decided he was not even guilty of a lesser charge. Bet there was a whole lotta yelling going on.
How are the BLM/Antifa/Free Palestine crowds outside the courtroom reacting?
How do you think? They want money.
Some of them just like to see the world in flames.
As expected.
About as expected. Neely’s father said “ Let’s DO SOMETHING about this.” Like burn down the city like they did after the death of St. George Fentanyl?
Huh. I was sure any holdouts for manslaughter would hold out for negligent homicide. It’s a lesser included charge: if you’re guilty of manslaughter, you’re definitionally guilty of negligent homicide.
Glad to have been wrong.
George Soros must be SO disappointed with DA Bragg.
So is Daddy Neely. “Lets go do something.”
Too bad George Floyd’s cousin didn’t get to be the new new Saint of drug addled criminals.
“Lets go do something.”
Unless he’s talking about going out for ice cream, he’s flirting with incitement.
But, of course, the law shouldn’t apply to such as he and his kin.
It’s not incitement. The most straightforward interpretation is political action, to change the laws and replace the officials, maybe even repeal the constitution, so that the next time this happens the defendant will be treated like a black man in Mississippi 100 year ago.
Your pedantry knows no bounds, Milhouse. You also don’t know what “flirting” is, evidently.
But I knew you’d be here to “correct” me.
It’s not pedantry, it’s the hard truth.
No, he’s not flirting with incitement, he’s completely safe from it. Flirting is the other story about students admitting they “answered Hamas’s call”; by doing that they’re treading awfully close to the line between protected speech and a felony. But this guy is nowhere near the line. He may not know what he’s doing, but if he did know, or had advice from someone who knows, he would say exactly the same thing.
The criteria for incitement are very strict; they have to be, or the law against it would be invalid.
You lack creativity. Imagine if you used your acumen for something productive, instead of just reciting what “can’t be done.” I’ve seen magic worked, but never by someone like you.
I don’t think the rule of dan l’chaf zechus (give the benefit of the doubt) applies to Mr Neely’s father. That’s a separate question, of course from whether his statement would support an incitement charge, and I agree with you that it wouldn’t. But let’s be realistic about what he really meant.
I am being realistic. I think that is likely what he meant. And I meant it about his wanting to repeal the constitution. They all do.
Of course, the violent reprobate’s violent reprobate father is calling for political action.
Sure.
If your head was any further up your ass it’d be coming back out of your mouth.
And the demonspawn is heard from again. Go back to Hell, where you belong.
Where were all these people who care about Jordan Neely when he was alive?
They didn’t care about him then and don’t care about him now. They just think they can profit from this somehow.
“🚨Jordan Neely’s Father just told the world “Let’s Do Something” after Daniel Penny was acquitted of all charges. What does he mean?”
I hope he means he and his tribe plan to burn down Alvin Bragg’s courthouse.
5x points if Bragg is inside at the time.
Makes zero sense. How can you hold out for guilty on the greater charge, and yet declare him not guilty of the lesser charge.
Unless the judge and prosecutor’s obvious bias was too much even for the leftist holding out for guilty.
Maybe the juror holding out for guilty figured he’d already lost the war, why fight the battle. Let’s just take the loss and go home already.
It’s always good news when a person who is not guilty is found not guilty.
Congressional Gold Medal for Penny!
An example must be made of him — a positive one. The main problem the nation faces is a spiritual one, and Penny’s is the kind of spirit we want.
Great start to the week! Apparently Bragg’s legal shenanigans did not impress the jurors, whose quit acquittal is their way of giving him the finger.
That is my also my guess for the explanation of the acquittal on the lesser charge: the jury was, for lack of a better word, insulted by the prosecution’s shenanigans — as they should have been. Shenanigans should spoil the case, should not be rewarded, otherwise, they’ ll just keep doing them.
Hold on! Bragg Will probably attempt to bring the dismissed charge again even though it is probably unconstitutional and would constitute double jeopardy. Thank God Trump won’t permit a Fed civil rights charge. Watch for Bragg to jam Penny up with more legal fees.
Bragg may be evil, but he’s not stupid. He won’t give himself another black eye.
What’s stupid about bringing a doomed case to please his crowd?
Merrick Garland will NOT be able to push a “civil rights” case against Penny … time ran out and Trump is coming.
As for “justice has prevailed” and “the system is not broken”…. false…. under Bragg and his obvious race hustling prosecutor there was no justice and they want a broken system..
I’m not a lawyer, but my understanding is that if the judge dismissed the charge without prejudice, the charges can be filed again.
It’s not “double jeopardy” unless a verdict was reached, or the charges were dismissed with prejudice.
Someone can correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s the way I understand it.
So the question is, when the original charge was dismissed so they could address the lesser charge, was it dismissed without prejudice?
No, Once jeopardy attaches, dismissal bars further prosecution because that would be double jeopardy. Jeopardy attaches once the jury is sworn in.
“Jeopardy attaches once the jury is sworn in.”
That doesn’t sound right. If that’s true, how is it that people get retried after mistrials? I would expect instead that jeopardy attaches once any jury decision is reached.
Because in a mistrial the charges are not dismissed.
It’s amazing how firm how many non-lawyers on this forum are about their legal opinions. It may not sound right to you, but it is the law, as anyone who has completed a first year law school course in criminal procedure can tell you.
You are missing the point. If the same facts and circumstances constitute a lesser charge, then increasing the charge , after a not guilty verdict, would in and of itself have the effect of double jeopardy.
Once a jury is empaneled and a charge is dismissed, it cannot be refiled.
Though I expect if they hung on the second count, they would have tried to bring back the first count.
He didn’t dismiss the charges, I think the prosecution asked for them to be dropped in their entirety as if they were never brought at all. That’s different, isn’t it?
Every news report I’ve seen says he did dismiss the manslaughter charge. It could be that they all got it wrong.
Jurors cannot “dismiss charges“, with or without prejudice. Only the judge can do that. The jury found that there was not enough evidence to convict, and that means the charges cannot be brought again.
Achad, we’re talking about the manslaughter charge. The jury didn’t make any finding about that. So without the judge dismissing it, it could in principle be brought again. But all the news reports said that he did dismiss it, so it can’t be.
If charges were dismissed without prejudice, the prosecution can absolutely recharge. (One citation: https://www.illinoislegalaid.org/legal-information/difference-between-dismissed-or-without-prejudice)
I don’t know about prejudice in this case, but if it was “without” then Bragg can try again to get a manslaughter conviction with a new jury. He cannot retry on the lesser charge where the jury found Penny not guilty.
Your citation is about a civil case. Not relevant here. Once the jury has been impaneled jeopardy has attached. If the judge dismissed the charge, as all the news reports said he did, it can’t come back.
Good outcome, not great. That he was charged and tried at all just ensures fewer, if any, citizens will step up to protect others. He should have been feted at a presser with hizzoner and the police chief instead of being charge.
Yup, and that is the goal when statists run citizens through the ringer like this. They don’t like the idea of lowly serfs taking care of each other without their permission and oversight…we should be begging our government overlords to take care of us in all things…
Bringing charges and raking him over the coals accomplishes the mission of making common everyday citizens think twice about intervening to defend others regardless of the verdict.
And the people should be throwing out Bragg. If they don’t do this, then this verdict will have been an outlier.
The voters of Manhattan like Bragg. They admire him for trying his best, and understand that you can’t control what a jury does. He’ll probably get more votes at the next election.
Then this will have been an outlier.
No, because juries are not the same as voters.
That’s the most depressing thing I’ve read this morning.
The fact they came back with a verdict so fast seems to lend credence to the reports that it was ONE holdout for guilty, and it was Juror Double Mask. This came back so fast that it had to just be 1 or 2 who flipped fast.
Seems like the judge’s ridiculous lunacy and basically demanding they find him guilty of something was too much even for Juror Double Mask.
This is so weird considering the dead lock on the higher charge.
Bragg will claim some black juror holdout was threatened by whitie.
Brainless liberal tweet in article claims there were no black jurors.
At least four people of color are on the jury
Anybody else remember why they closed down the insane asylums in the seventies? Remember Gerald Rivers doing that undercover video series that showed people tied down and stuff? They should have improved the places instead of closing them!!!!
“Titticut Follies,” 1967. A great B&W documentary worth watching.
Thing is, while they closed the places down, the people whose condition caused the most outrage –the restrained ones, the filthy ones, the scratched up ones– all remained in care.
Because they couldn’t be let out. They were dangerous to themselves and others. Or they were completely invalid.
And so, thousands of lesser insane people were let go, to sink or swim on their own while the people that Jerry got everyone pissed over stayed right where they were until they died.
Thank you Lord.
The correct verdict, sort of. But the wrong message, loudly. The message being that if you are a white male, don’t touch a black person unless you are willing to go through what Penny has and, more dangerously will. He will never lead the same life again. I give reasonable odds that some BLM type offs him in the near future.
If it is to protect your life or that of one of yours, go for it. But understand you are going to be arrested, financially broken, and be marked for the rest of your days. Don’t count on another NYC jury getting it, sort of, right.
Why I don’t live somewhere like NYC.
Next thing I want to know is where Penny plans to move immediately.
Every time somebody gets murdered on the subway from now on, I hope a thousand people respond with “Too bad you don’t have Daniel Penny to kick around anymore.”
Daddy of Crazy Dead Black Person is clearly looking for a payday, as many other black parents of criminals have received from guilt-ridden blue cities.
Hadn’t seen his son in 15 years according to one account I read.
Lost a son (a crazy one he abandoned) but won the ghetto lottery.
I doubt he gets much of anything. What’s going to be the damages? Future earnings? There aren’t any. Pain and suffering from the loss of his son? He hasn’t seen him in years by his own choice.
And even if he wins, he still has to try to collect it. It’s not like Penny has millions tucked away to go after (unless I missed something).
The dad would probably be better off trying to sue the city for the police not performing CPR on Neely, then going after Penny.
The father says he is suing for alien nation of infection.
His case will be impacted by the not guilty verdict. So, he may end up getting nothing.
Still, never it to be said that Plaintiffs were smart.
Pleasantly shocked.
As you can imagine, the family was not happy.
Like I care what they think. They had this man out there assaulting people while drugged out of his mind. And they didn’t seem to care much. It’s entirely possible they had given up on him, and I can understand that. But if that was the case, they wouldn’t be demanding blood from someone who simply kept him from escaping the consequences this time. They truly believe they have no agency in this matter, and neither did the perp.
Question. In that the Judge in the Penny case clearly violated his own jury instructions by dismissing the first charge, did he do so in order to intentionally sabotage Bragg’s entire case by letting Bragg hang himself?
The more I think about it the more convinced I am.
Even the Judges parting words lend me to this belief.
I’m old enough to remember when state institutions for people afflicted like Neely were shut down because they were run in an atrocious manner (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest). Rather than fix them and run them with compassion and better outcomes, the patients were released on the street where they could “exercise” their rights (thank you ACLU and others). The system as it stands now failed both Neely and Penny.
Penny was not guilty of anything other than trying to protect others. He would have been vilified if he had stood by and let Neely hurt any of the women or the child that were on that train. I am glad he raised $3+ million for his defense fund — he’s going to need it for the civil case Neely’s newly involved father has filed, and for a personal protection detail as long as he stays in NYC.
I’m glad Mr. Penny was acquitted, as with George Zimmerman and Kyle Rittenhouse, before him, but, the fact that these unethical, dishonest and lawless Dhimmic-rat prosecutors are criminalizing lawful acts of self-defense — lethal and non-lethal, is deeply offensive and problematic.
The charges filed against Penny were transparently politically motivated and manifestly unsupported by facts and evidence.
The process is indeed the punishment, here, as others have fairly observed.
The Democrats have been unable to destroy the second amendment despite decades of attacks.
Now they have chosen to sap it instead by making self-defense illegal. Yes, I realize Penny didn’t use any weapons, but consistency in criminalizing resistance and personal responsibility for public safety demanded his prosecution.
I blame NYPD detectives Brian McCarthy and Micheal Medina for even filing this. One of those idiots even bragged he was a former marine. ( I thought once a marine always sa marine). They wanted a prosecution more than they wanted justice. Lack of common sense means they are unfit to be officers of the law. Time to teach them a lesson.
Now, the vile Dhimmi-crats can breathlessly rush to find the next criminal sociopath “of color” to canonize and beatify.
Someone else to join the list of Mumia Abu-Jamal, Stanley “Tookie” Williams, St. Trayvon of the Blessed Skittles, “Gentle Giant” Michael Brown, George Floyd, and Jordan Neely, in this case.
The vile and evil Dhimmi-crats want to imprison a man for defending innocents against the predations and raving threats of a belligerent criminal “of color.” They believe that people should meekly sit and endure threats of violence and the actual violence that would likely ensue, if not for good Samaritans’ pre-emptive interventions.
Yeah!!!!!!
Going back to Rodney King through this case, it seems redundant and Captain Obvious to point out that black criminals get beaten or killed ALL THE TIME and we never hear of them because they weren’t beaten or killed by a white guy
Yes, as with the innumerable homicides committed by shooters “of color” shooting victims “of colors.” The perpetrators’ skin pigmentation means that no political hay/fodder can be made out of/gained by such incidents, so, they are ignored, entirely, by the rabble-rousing Dhimmi-crat apparatchiks and the agitator-“activists” in the black community.
Don’t know about you guys but with an impending change of administration which will lead to changes at the DoJ and FBI it doesn’t seem particularly bright to be going around broadcasting death threats on the internet least it attracts the interest of these reinvigorated and refocused law and order organisations 🤔
No one ever accused Dhimmi-crats of being smart. They are self-aggrandizing and malignant narcissists, at their wretched cores. Attention and plaudits is what they crave.
Could be the original “guilty” voters took a good look around as they rode the subway from and back to the courthouse.
Good news. The tone of retribution/revenge in some of the statements outside the Court ain’t helpful. There hasn’t been a constant, enthusiastic mob presence until very late in the trial and with a verdict on Monday it would seem less likely for mob actions.
Using the Alex Jones case as a model, Daniel Penny should be getting a $2.73 Trillion judgment against New York State, New York City, and various officials and MSM presstitutes.
He won’t get a penny. The officials are all immune, the state and city violated no law, and there’s no defamation unless he finds an instance of someone making a false factual statement about what he did. Even then the defendant would just invoke Sullivan; but without such a statement they don’t even have to.
His only hope of compensation is if a future administration gives him a medal and a financial reward. It’s 42 days to Jan-20; if I were Trump I’d mention him in my inaugural speech, maybe even have him come up and receive a medal, and if possible a check that will come, somehow, out of funds that would otherwise be allocated to Manhattan.
How many years until the statute of limitations bars the endless string of nutballs who will be attempting to sue Penny civilly for bogus reasons, looking to bankrupt him and collect whatever money they can from the result?
Too long, but the string is quite short. Other than the late unlamented’s parents, I don’t see who else would have standing.
This is how the George Floyd overdose trials should have ended up.
The cops should carry some exotic poison and a small syringe because these perps always have a lethal dose of something in their system.
Daddy who abandoned him looking for that million dollar payout
Took them long enough to come up with the correct solution, but at least they got there I guess. Too bad it had to cost Mr penny so much in the meantime
Probably no serious riots tonight, because it’s cold out.
The delicious irony here is that had Bragg not overcharged on the top count – as Turley and McCarthy seem to have said on FOX – he might have had a chance at a conviction. IMO the gross overcharging on the top count gave a 10-2 or 11-1 for acquittal on that and set the second one up for converting the holdouts to not guilty (to get it over with).
Maybe. It wasn’t negligence either. Had he been carrying a weapon he would have been justified in using deadly force. Therefore, since he didn’t use deadly force and had no intention of doing so, a fortiori he should not be guilty of anything.
penny is a kinder man than many–he must know how to pop an assailant a couple of times and render them unconscious but he practiced more restraint and sought to subdue his assailant without striking him–says a lot about penny’s character / confidence in himself
such men and women are at their best in these situations as they seek not to seriously harm but to control an assailant–that takes serious balls
am glad at least a few on the jury recognized this
Glad Penny was acquitted. As for the enticed protestors, would they have preferred someone who apparently was very threatening in his behavior to be ignored? Really? Would they refuse help if someone could stop the erratic person from harming others?
Most New Yorkers ride the subway at some point in their lives. Perhaps the jurors considered the above in their move to acquit.
Finally – When will someone step up in a situation like this again? They won’t And THAT is another indication of the decline of morals and charity (help your neighbor – in this case, the other passengers) in our society.