The Daniel Penny subway trial is winding up as of press time, and the jury is in deliberations after the judge in the case dropped the manslaughter charge against Penny. More on this below, but first, how the hell did this trial even happen? How did we get here?
Millions of Americans are tired of “woke” politics. Race-based grievances, special rights for minority groups, total social censure of non-left voices, and non-step leftist economic policies are a big part of why the country elected Trump this fall.
Not only has the U.S. lost social and moral cohesion over the past few decades, but we have also lost belief in some of the most fundamental rights that everyone used to agree on. Self-defense is one of them. We’re all used to Democrat politicians trying to chip away at the Second Amendment right to bear arms, and that’s bad enough, but it doesn’t stop there.
We appear to be losing the belief in our own right to defend our lives and the lives of those around us. How else can we explain the shockingly ignorant public response to the Kyle Rittenhouse trial? Rittenhouse traveled to Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August of 2020 to help protect the town and its businesses as BLM protesters rioted and set fires to buildings in protest of the police shooting of a black man. Several men attacked Rittenhouse, and he fired, killing two of them.
The country went insane. Many liberals believed, absent evidence, that Rittenhouse killed “unarmed black men.” The men who attacked him, and whom he shot, were not black, and at least one of them tried to take Rittenhouse’s gun as Rittenhouse lay on the ground trying to defend himself. He was acquitted, but only barely, as the media and politicians almost succeeded in painting the innocent teen as a monster when he was the one under attack.
The same thing has happened to subway hero Daniel Penny, who is on trial in New York City (the jury is deliberating as this story is written) for allegedly killing subway menace Jordan Neely. The media worked overtime to portray Neely, a mentally unstable criminal and drug user with a long rap sheet, as an innocent and friendly “Michael Jackson impersonator” – as opposed to someone who threatens to murder their fellow subway passengers. This is what they always do when violent black men are pushed back against by their targets.
Neely entered a subway and started threatening passengers, causing mothers to huddle in fear with their children behind strollers. Penny, a former marine who looks like Errol Flynn, put Neely in a chokehold until police could arrive. Contrary to initial media reports, Neely did not die on the subway, he died later at a hospital.
Race-baiting, dishonest New York City prosecutor Alvin Bragg (the same man who went after Donald Trump in court over “hush money” payments to Stormy Daniels), charged Penny with manslaughter. It was obvious from the beginning that black Alvin Bragg intended to scalp a white man, even though he appears to be a hero, not a thug.
But as of yesterday, presiding judge Maxwell Wiley has dropped the manslaughter charge, leaving Penny to face a charge of criminally negligent homicide. Though the name of the crime sounds worse, it actually carries a lesser sentence than manslaughter.
Penny should never have been arrested, let alone charged. But this is the United States in 2024, and if you’re white, male, or a Republican, a good half the country does not believe you have the moral or legal right to protect yourself and others from assault or murder.
Let’s see how X/Twitter users are reacting.
