He should have never been charged.
While the rest of the people on that train cowered in fear, Penny stood up and stopped an out of control lunatic from hurting or possibly killing someone on the subway.
Daniel Penny was acquitted by a Manhattan jury Monday in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely – a lightning-rod case that cast a light on the mayhem plaguing Big Apple subways.
Jurors cleared Penny, a 26-year-old Long Islander, of criminally negligent homicide after the fatal caught-on-camera encounter on an uptown F train last year sparked fierce debate about mental illness, public safety and vigilantism.
A suited-up Penny, who remained stone-faced for much of the four-week trial, broke out a huge smile as his not guilty verdict was read out – prompting both applause and anger inside the courtroom as the high-profile case came to an end.
Penny “finally got the justice he deserved,” one of his lawyers, Thomas Kenniff, said while celebrating with him at a bar in downtown Manhattan just hours after the verdict.
“I’m not surprised in the sense that Day 1 we knew that we believed he would be exonerated because the evidence overwhelmingly supported that.”
The verdict, which followed more than 20 hours of jury deliberations, came after the more serious manslaughter charge was dismissed by prosecutors last week after the 12 jurors — seven women and five men — deadlocked on that rap.
Over the course of the four-week trial, defense attorneys painted Penny as a hero who was “fully justified” when he took down Neely – a 30-year-old troubled homeless man who witnesses said was menacing others and making threats – on an uptown F train on May 1, 2023.
………News of the verdict, meanwhile, sparked an immediate reaction across the Big Apple – and the rest of the country – as some lawmakers claimed the DA’s office politicized the case and tried to turn Penny into a villain as crime spirals on the streets and underground.
“There are people in the [DA’s] office who are quietly relieved that he was found not guilty,” a source inside Bragg’s office told The Post. “You can’t say they are happy because someone did die, but they don’t think he was tried because he committed a crime, but rather because of politics which should never happen.”
Neely was a career thug who had been arrested 42 times over the last decade. His most recent arrest was in November 2021 for assaulting a 67-year-old woman.
He also plead guilty to attempted kidnapping in 2015 for dragging a 7-year-old girl down a street.
Neely’s parents claimed that Penny’s acquittal proves the “system is rigged”.
After years of ignoring their son’s violent criminal record, drug addiction, and mental illness, they’ve crawled out of the woodwork to demand “justice”. They’ve already filed a lawsuit against Penny for “negligence, assault, and battery”. They’re going to try to cash in on all the publicity they can get.
New York BLM leader Hawk Newsome has called for ‘black vigilantes’ to get violent.
Again.
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