Daniel Penny Not Guilty…America Not So Much

There are signs of life in the American judicial system, but improvement in brain activity remains questionable.

Marine veteran Daniel Penny was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide by a Manhattan jury Monday in the death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man who entered the subway aggressive and making menacing threats. Neely was shouting that he didn’t care if he went to jail and intended to harm someone that day.

Neely was on an informal list within the NYPD, “The Top 50,” of those considered to be among the most problematic, dangerous homeless.

Jordan Neely had 40 arrests on his record and 43 calls for help with someone unstable, sick, or mentally ill. In 2021, Neely attacked elderly women on two separate occasions, punching one in the face and knocking one woman over, leaving her with a broken nose, fractured orbital bone and substantial injury.

Earlier last week, the jury was deadlocked on a more serious charge of manslaughter. At the start of the trial, Judge Max Wiley instructed the jury they must agree on the charge of second-degree manslaughter before they could consider the criminally negligent homicide charge. If the jury found Penny not guilty on the first charge, both would be dropped. Rather than allow for a mistrial when the jury deadlocked, prosecutors asked the judge to drop the charge of second-degree manslaughter so the lesser could be considered.

Despite the circumstances, this is as favorable an outcome for Penny as could be hoped for. However, Penny now faces the civil suit brought against him by Neely’s family.

Neely’s family said in multiple interviews that “the system failed Jordan.” And I would have to agree, which is why I am puzzled that they are not suing “the system.” Neely’s father said, “the system was rigged against his son.” Just curious sir, who do you think runs that system in NYC? Donald Trump has some insight on that.

Imagine that–liberal policies that give deference to criminals as opposed to the general public or victims…liberal policies within the legal and mental health systems that allow dangerous people room to roam about subways, streets, and communities without police presence as a deterrent. Until a tragedy happens or a Good Samaritan intervenes.

There should never have been charges brought against Penny. They should have bought him a beer and given him a lifetime subway pass. There had already been multiple attacks in NYC subways, multiple people thrown into tracks, and multiple people victimized by criminals or mentally ill aggressors. Neely said he intended to go back to jail and was willing to kill someone that day.

“Someone is going to die today.”–Neely

Penny and the other passengers weren’t caseworkers with Neely’s history in front of them. They responded to the reality they were in, in that moment. The reality that liberal policies created.

Alvin Bragg has historically overcharged and underprepared. Bragg could have allowed the mistrial last week and regrouped for another day. Bragg asked the more serious charge be dropped. It’s entirely possible he could have won on a lesser charge to begin with, a win that would have made the Neely’s civil case stronger. But he did not. Because Bragg prosecutes on emotion and grievance, rather than evidence. NYC will continue to get the chaos and spectacle as long as they elect DA’s like Bragg.

I am encouraged that the jury acquitted but I am still absolutely dumbfounded that BLM protesters were allowed to incite violence and threaten Daniel Penny’s life and safety from the courthouse steps without a peep from the city. BLM speakers called for black vigilantes to harm white people and told Penny that he would not be safe in NY ever again.

Why and how is BLM allowed to be relevant anymore? They are parasites feeding on the plight of the minorities they say they serve. Until we have the guts to tell BLM to sit down and shut up, until they fall under the same justice as everybody else…along with the pro-hamas crowd intimidating jewish students…until everyone is under the same law the system remains guilty.