On Monday, a jury found Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny not guilty of negligent homicide in the Jordan Neely case.
Penny, as RedState readers will recall, put Neely, a mentally ill homeless man with a lengthy criminal history, in a submission hold during a May 2023 subway incident in New York City after Neely reportedly acted aggressively and threateningly towards other passengers.
Neely, who was also restrained by other passengers, was later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.
It’s an understatement to say that Penny’s life has been turned upside down since that day, especially after being charged by woke District Attorney Alvin Bragg for the apparent crime of intervening to prevent other innocent subway riders from being assaulted by Neely, who according to witnesses said he was “hungry,” willing to go to prison, and was “ready to die” after boarding the subway train.
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Though the Usual Suspects on the left accused Penny of being a racist, cold-blooded “murderer,” people fed up with unpunished crime in the Big Apple and elsewhere regarded him as a hero for stepping in at a time when assaults, stabbings, and slashings were on the rise and Soros-funded prosecutors were riding in on soft-on-crime promises.
In the aftermath of the trial, Penny sat down for an interview with Fox News, some clips of which are being released Tuesday.
In one of them, Penny talked about how he was “not a confrontational person” and that he was not a man who seeks out attention, saying it makes him uncomfortable. But he also said he would not have been able to live with himself if he had sat back and done nothing and Neely had hurt someone:
“I didn’t want any attention or praise, and I still don’t,” he said. “The guilt I would’ve felt if someone did get hurt, if he did do what he was threatening to do, I would never be able to live with myself. And I’ll take a million court appearances and people calling me names and people hating me just to keep one of those people from getting hurt, or killed.”
Watch:
Penny: “The guilt I would have felt if someone did get hurt, if — if he did do what he was threatening to do, I would never be able to live with myself. And I’ll — I’ll take a million court appearances & people calling me names & people hating me just to keep one of those people… pic.twitter.com/tjXWyljVt8
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) December 10, 2024
In another clip, Penny discussed why he didn’t feel comfortable releasing Neely from the submission hold:
“He was just threatening to kill people,” Penny said in a preview clip that aired on “The Five” Tuesday. “He was threatening to go to jail forever, go to jail for the rest of his life, and now I’m on the ground with him. I’m on my back in a very vulnerable position…If I’d just let him go, now I’m on my back and he can just turn around and start doing what he said – to me…killing, hurting.”
Watch:
“If I had just let [Neely] go… he could just turn around and start doing what he said to me – killing, hurting.”
After his acquittal, Daniel Penny reflected on the “vulnerable position” he was in when he stepped in to restrain Jordan Neely from hurting others on the subway.… pic.twitter.com/QeWxGLTRds
— Fox News (@FoxNews) December 10, 2024
As others have said, we need a whole lot more Daniel Pennys in the world, and fewer Alvin Bragg types. What a remarkable, extraordinary young man.
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