No reasonable person can help but strongly suspect that the prosecution of Daniel Penny is what the Brits call a “stitch-up.”
Penny, the young former Marine with an Errol Flynn look, tried to protect NYC subway passengers from an erratic man who was threatening to hurt people on the train. In May of 2023, Jordan Neely, 30 (black), was acting erratically on the subway. According to witnesses, Neely was behaving in a threatening fashion, saying things like, “I don’t care if I die. I don’t care if I go to jail.”
According to Penny and witnesses, Neely lunged at passengers and convinced people he was a threat to their safety (Neely was threatening to kill train riders). Penny jumped into action and subdued Neely with a chokehold. Neely later died, and the media immediately went into racism overdrive.
CNN described Neely, who was homeless and who had a rap sheet with 42 arrests, as simply a “homeless black man” who was a beloved “Michael Jackson impersonator.” All the photos used to depict him were chosen to present Neely as unthreatening. The narrative was set: Penny was a White Devil who Murdered a Poor Innocent Oppressed Black Man.
But worse, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (famous for prosecuting Donald Trump over “hush money” payments), also black and with a chip on his shoulder, slapped Penny with manslaughter charges. Prosecutors claim Penny “went way too far,” and should have stopped trying to restrain the aggressive man. The implication is clear: prosecutors want to convince a jury and the public that Penny was not a hero, but a racist murderer.
And we wonder why Americans are increasingly unwilling to come to each other’s aide when in distress. Careful–if you protect your own life or someone else’s against a black person you may end up imprisoned for having the gall to want to survive.
But my, how the worm turned in court on November 1. Thank God for the Daily Mail, or most of us wouldn’t know that, lo and behold, Jordan Neely still had a pulse after police and medics arrived on the scene. Despite their efforts at CPR, Neely died later in the hospital.
Take a look at Google’s news page: Would you have had any idea that such a crucial fact had come out in public if not for the single Daily Mail story?
It gets worse for the prosecution when you read the testimony of the cops on scene. One unnamed NYPD Sergeant said his cops did not perform “mouth to mouth” on Neely because “he seemed to be a drug user. . .he was an apparent drug user. He was very dirty. I didn’t want [my officers] to get hepatitis.”
To quote Rugg’s commentary in full:
NEW: Jordan Neely had a pulse after being put in a chokehold by Marine veteran Daniel Penny but NYPD declined mouth-to-mouth because they were afraid of getting hepatitis.
Neely was so dirty that officers didn’t feel safe performing CPR.
Penny is charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after he defended Subway riders from Neely who was threatening to kill them.
An NYPD Sergeant said no one wanted to give mouth-to-mouth because they didn’t want to get hepatitis and Neely was very dirty. “He seemed to be a drug user… he was an apparent drug user. He was very dirty. I didn’t want them to get hepatitis.” “If he did wake up he would have been vomiting. I didn’t want my officers to do that.” “He was filthy. He looked like a homeless individual. You have to protect your officer.” “I wouldn’t want my officer to get sick if the person throws up.”
Does any of this make sense? Who can look at this and see Daniel Penny as anything other than a sacrifice to racial narcissism and untouchability in 21st century America. No honest person believes Penny would be in the dock if he were not white, and Neely were not black.
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