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Marine Vet Daniel Penny Speaks out on Chokehold Death, ‘I Am Not a White Supremacist’

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As Redstate reported, radical Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg charged former Marine Daniel Penny with second-degree manslaughter after he placed Jordan Neely, a career criminal with a history of mental illness, in a chokehold after Neely began aggressively threatening passengers on a New York City subway car.

Although leftists like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Rev. Al Sharpton have tried attempted to paint the incident as an act of racial animosity and “white supremacy,” video from the confrontation complicates their narrative. After subduing Neely, Penny released the chokehold and actually placed him in a recovery position, meaning he was trying to aid him medically. Neely could be seen breathing at the time, implying that Penny was not trying to kill him; meanwhile, other passengers were seen thanking Penny for keeping them safe.

On Saturday, Penny broke his silence and told the NY Post that he defends his actions and bears no racial hatred. He spoke with the outlet at Argyle Park in Babylon, New York, which is not far from where he grew up:

This had nothing to do with race.

I judge a person based on their character. I’m not a white supremacist.

I mean, it’s, it’s a little bit comical. Everybody who’s ever met me can tell you, I love all people, I love all cultures. You can tell by my past and all my travels and adventures around the world. I was actually planning a road trip through Africa before this happened.

He is not a vigilante, Penny said. “I’m a normal guy.”

Penny spoke of the events leading up to the encounter, explaining that he was coming from school and heading to the gym when Neely grew aggressive and threatening, yelling at other riders and throwing trash. Although Penny was an experienced straphanger, he’d never seen anything like this. “This was different, this time was much different,” Penny said.

Penny was charged with second-degree manslaughter and is free on $100,000 bail. Asked how he felt about Neely’s death, Penny grew “somber”:

“I’m deeply saddened by the loss of life,” he said ” It’s tragic what happened to him. Hopefully, we can change the system that’s so desperately failed us.” [Emphasis mine.]

Would he react differently if faced with a similar situation in the future? Penny said he would just try to do the right thing:

You know, I live an authentic and genuine life. And I would — if there was a threat and danger in the present …

I don’t, I mean, I always do what I think is right.

As a Marine, he traveled around the world and misses those days. He certainly doesn’t sound like a white supremacist as he recounts those memories:

I love to travel. It really changed my perspective of the world for sure. I’m very thankful for being able to travel so much. Just the friendliness and welcoming of everyone and everywhere that I went to.

And even before I deployed, you know, a lot of my friends I served with in my platoon came from all over a lot from Central America and Mexico, that, you know, I’ve opened up my, my eyes to their cultures and their perspectives.

Neely’s funeral was held Friday, and as my colleague Sister Toldjah reported, professional race-baiter Al Sharpton made it all about himself, decrying Neely’s death and claiming that the troubled man was not “annoying anyone,” he “was crying for help.” Even if you take that at face value (although why would you?) if you are physically able to defend yourself and others from violence, you have the right and perhaps the obligation to do so.

The system didn’t just fail Jordan Neely—it failed Daniel Penny. His life is ruined right now, and his name will forever be linked to this unfortunate incident. Although a GiveSendGo campaign to help him defray his legal costs has garnered millions, Penny still has a long fight ahead against a prosecutor who has repeatedly shown to care more about wokeism than actual justice.

Penny’s thoughts and views certainly don’t come across as those of a white-robed, rage-filled supremacist hell-bent on murdering people from different races. Instead, he comes across as a decent guy who was just trying to get to the gym in what was once one of the greatest cities in the world—but has now slipped into chaos.

More on Daniel Penny:

AOC’s Shameless Shot at DeSantis About the Bible Shows What a Hypocrite She Is

Watch: ‘Reverend’ Al Sharpton Outdoes Himself in Disgraceful Display During Jordan Neely Funeral

Ron DeSantis Throws His Support Behind Daniel Penny in the Jordan Neely Incident

AOC’s Shameless Shot at DeSantis About the Bible Shows What a Hypocrite She Is

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I think it’s ghoulish how Democrats have responded in the case of the death of Jordan Neely.

It’s a pretty sad case of a man who didn’t get the help he needed while he was alive, but who had a history of violent behavior toward other people. Marine Daniel Penny stepped in, along with other people, to help restrain Neely after they believed Neely was threatening people. Neely later died, and Penny has been charged with manslaughter in his death, despite witnesses calling him a “hero” for helping to protect people. My colleague Sister Toldjah wrote about Al Sharpton’s disgraceful display at the funeral for Neely.

Yet Democrats have ignored Neely’s violent background, along with what the witnesses and Penny have said, and acted as though this was just a guy who liked to imitate Michael Jackson whom Penny just wanted to kill. That’s shameful, and not an honest depiction of the facts. But it fits the narrative of what they want to push, so they don’t care if Penny gets destroyed in the process.

However, let’s not leave out Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who was also there at the funeral. You would have thought that AOC was going to a celebrity event, the way that she was smiling and taking selfies with fans from her big, gas-guzzling vehicle that she was in. She also took a lame shot at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, when asked about him calling Penny a “Good Samaritan.”

“I think he should read a Bible,” she exclaimed.

Now, it’s a funeral. At a funeral, it isn’t supposed to be about you, it’s supposed to be about the person who died. The focus is not supposed to be about selfies and photo-ops. But AOC always seems to be about self-promotion—even at a funeral.

There were also a few other interesting things there. When AOC came into office, didn’t she tell us about the climate emergency, that we were running out of time. She said we had 12 years left. ‘The world is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change,’ AOC claimed in Jan. 2019. But there she is in a big gas-guzzler. No hypocrisy there. It also looks like she has security, when she was one of the people pushing to defund the police.

But on top of that, why didn’t she take the subway to get to the funeral? Wouldn’t that have been the best thing for the environment? Is it because she knows that the subway isn’t safe, and New York has failed to address the situation, which is why they had the situation with Jordan Neely? Neely was just one of many homeless and mentally ill people in the subway, and anyone who rides the subway regularly knows it. Far be it from AOC to have to travel in the subway like the rest of us peons, without security.

Again, instead of looking at the reality of the situation, that Penny was acting to help people, she threw that under the bus in order to use the situation to take a shot at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. She’s trying to tell someone else about reading the Bible? Has she ever read it? Maybe she should check the Bible before she calls people “murderers,” as she did to Daniel Penny, and see what it says about bearing false witness against her neighbor.

Nope, for AOC, a virtue-signaling photo-op at a funeral is the way to go.

Watch: ‘Reverend’ Al Sharpton Outdoes Himself in Disgraceful Display During Jordan Neely Funeral

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They say a leopard never changes its spots, and that was absolutely the case Thursday when race-hustling MSNBC host and “Reverend” Al Sharpton brought his clown-show circus to town to preside over the funeral of Jordan Neely.

Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man with an extensive arrest record, died on May 1st after being subdued by multiple passengers on a New York City subway for allegedly behaving in an aggressive and threatening manner, saying he was hungry and didn’t care if he got arrested.

24-year-old Marine Daniel Penny, seen in the video clip putting Neely in what some have called a “submission hold” or “headlock,” has been charged by woke Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg with second-degree manslaughter over Neely’s death, though some witnesses have described Penny as a “hero.”

As per the norm, Sharpton, who is a failed Democratic presidential candidate, made himself the center of the spotlight rather than Neely, lapping up the attention he got from the press and onlookers shortly before the Harlem service started:

In true Sharpton fashion, he grotesequely politicized Neely’s death, criticizing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for referring to Penny as a “Good Samaritan” during a service that looked like it had more reporters in attendance than members of the community:

Sharpton, infamous in NYC circles for inciting deadly race riots, engaging in anti-Semitism, and foisting racially-tinged rape hoaxes on the American populace, then declared without evidence that “Jordan was not annoying someone on the train,” even though multiple witnesses have described Neely’s behavior as erratic and threatening.

Sharpton then stated that “They don’t need abuse, they need help,” echoing a disturbing theme we’ve seen in recent weeks where woke Democrats suggested people just sit back and take it when someone who is going through a mental health episode decides to make you a target of their rage:

But perhaps the most despicable moment of Sharpton’s presence at the event was when he actually posed for pictures while standing beside the hearse that had been opened to display Neely’s shiny ivory and gold casket.

Watch below as Sharpton stands surrounded by well-dressed gawkers who take out their cell phone cameras to snap photos and video of the coffin as Sharpton looks on, and as a rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” plays in the background to remind people that Neely was once a Michael Jackson impersonator on city streets and subways:

Other New York Democratic politicos were also in attendance, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who undoubtedly made Sharpton proud with the subway chaos she helped incite in the aftermath of Neely’s death:

When you see disgusting displays like this, it’s a reminder all over again that there is no low these grifters won’t stoop to if the fame, attention, and money is right.

I couldnt’ help but look at what transpired Friday and think about how interesting it was that Jordan Neely was surrounded by people who claimed to love and care about him, but only in death. I’m not speaking of his family here, because I don’t know the situation behind that. They may have repeatedly tried to reach out to him after his mother was murdered and he rejected them. I just don’t know.

But what I do know is that the Al Sharptons and AOCs of this country do not care about the Jordan Neelys of the world unless there is an political angle to shamelessly exploit in their deaths. If Jordan Neely had been killed by a black man, we would not have seen either of them at his funeral, much less virtual signaling on social media and “news” programs about how maybe Neely’s death wouldn’t have happened if only the social safety nets put in place in Democrat-run cities had more money thrown at them.

Where were these people when Jordan Neely was alive? Maybe had they paid more attention instead of looking the other way while the systems they championed weren’t doing what they were designed to do, Neely wouldn’t have been homeless much less getting arrested over 40 times including four for alleged assault.

In fact, the money they spent on Neely’s casket alone probably could have paid for some therapy, warm meals, some counseling, and perhaps a shoulder to cry on.

Now he’s dead, and instead of taking their share of the blame, they’re placing it all on Daniel Penny who out of everyone else involved in this sad story sounded like he was just trying to do the right thing before Neely set his sights on someone else.

We’re living in a world gone mad, and I’m really struggling to make sense of it all anymore.

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Race-Hustler Al Sharpton to Give Eulogy at Jordan Neely’s Funeral

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Reverend Al Sharpton is expected to give a eulogy at the funeral of Jordan Neely, whose death at the hands of a fellow subway passenger in New York recently became the subject of headlines around the country.

The service will take place at Mount Neboh Baptist Church in Harlem on Friday.

“As we face sorrow, pain, and uncertainty in the wake of Jordan’s senseless killing, it is crucial that we come together in the spirit of healing, action, and perseverance,” said Rev. Johnnie Melvin Green, Jr., Mount Neboh’s lead pastor. “I can think of no one better, no one more equipped to meet this moment with that grace and guidance than Rev. Sharpton.”

Neely’s death occurred on May 1st around 2:30 p.m. as he boarded an F train in New York, exhibiting disruptive behavior and threatening fellow passengers. Daniel Penny, a U.S. Marine veteran, intervened by seizing Neely from behind, subduing him, and allegedly causing him to lose consciousness and ultimately pass away.

Prior to the incident, Neely had a long record of violent assaults on subway commuters in New York City. Court records reveal that the 30-year-old transient, who previously worked as a Michael Jackson impersonator, had been arrested numerous times, with his most recent charges relating to violent attacks on individuals on the subway.

Sharpton, meanwhile, has thrown his support behind Neely and his family and applauded the charges brought against Daniel Penny. In a statement Friday, Sharpton called the charges against Penny “just step one in justice” and called for the prosecution of other subway passengers threatened by Neely.

“Let’s not forget that there were three people restraining him, and it is vital that the two others are also held accountable for their actions,” Sharpton said. “The justice system needs to send a clear, loud message that vigilantism has never been acceptable.”

Penny is now facing charges of second-degree manslaughter and was released last Friday on a $100,000 bond. His team has already launched a fundraising effort that has raised $2.6 million for his legal defense. Per the description:

Daniel Penny is, a twenty-four-year-old college student and decorated Marine veteran, facing a criminal investigation stemming from him protecting individuals on a NYC subway train from an assailant who later died.

Funds are being raised to pay Mr. Penny’s legal fees incurred from any criminal charges filed and any future civil lawsuits that may arise, as well as expenses related to his defense. All contributions are greatly appreciated. Any proceeds collected which exceed those necessary to cover Mr. Penny’s legal defense will be donated to a mental health advocacy program in New York City.

Following the incident, lawyers for Penny released a statement claiming he acted in self-defense and that he “never intended to harm” Neely, while pointing to the victim’s history of violence and mental illness:

Earlier this week Daniel Penny was involved in a tragic incident on the NYC Subway, which ended in the death of Jordan Neely. We would first like to express our condolences to those close to Mr. Neely.

Mr. Neely had a documented history of violent and erratic behavior, the apparent result of ongoing and untreated mental illness. When Mr Neely began aggressively threatening Daniel Penny and the other passengers, Daniel, with the help of others, acted to protect themselves, until help arrived. Daniel never intended to harm Mr. Neely and could not have foreseen his untimely death.

NY Governor says there’s no right to self-defense

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It’s hard to find any other interpretation of Gov. Kathy Hochul’s latest statement about the death of Jordan Neely; the mentally disturbed New York man who died after being placed in a chokehold by a Marine veteran on a NYC subway after allegedly threatening passengers. Hochul’s been taking heat from progressive activists for not immediately condemning the veteran and convicting him in the court of public opinion, as well as for her first statement after the incident, in which she vaguely spoke about “consequences for behavior”. It was unclear whether Hochul was talking about Neely or the veteran, but in her attempt to clarify her earlier remarks she also made it clear that she doesn’t think self-defense is ever justified.

“No one has the right to take the life of another person.” If Hochul truly believes that, she should be calling for police across the state to be disarmed, or at least be equipped solely with non-lethal weapons. She should demand that her fellow Democrats repeal Penal Law §35.15, which provides that “a person is justified in using physical force against another when that person is under the reasonable belief that the physical force is necessary to defend the person or another person from what the person reasonably believes to be the illegal imminent use of force or the illegal use of force.”

Will Hochul do either of those things? Of course not. Heck, she could require her own security detail use nothing but less-than-lethal arms without a single vote in the New York legislature, but there’s no way she take that step because it would impact her own safety.

When it comes to your right to self-defense, however, Hochul and her anti-gun allies are downright giddy about their infringements. From making it more expensive and time-consuming to apply for a concealed carry permit to declaring most of the state off-limits to lawfully carrying a firearm for personal protection, Hochul has not only thumbed her nose at the Supreme Court and its decision in Bruen, but has flipped the bird to all those New Yorkers who can’t afford their own security detail or have one provided to them thanks to their elected office.

Neely’s death has been ruled a homicide, but it will be up to police and prosecutors to determine whether or not the three individuals who pinned him down to the floor of the subway car after his threats broke the law in doing so. Hochul notes that Neely was unarmed but the riders on the subway car had no way of knowing that. Given the NYC subway shootings just a little more than a year ago, I’d say those on the subway car had a reasonable fear of Neely following through on his threats and were within their right to restrain him. As the New York Post has detailed, Neely had a long history of mental health issues as well as run-ins with police, including spending more than a year in jail after assaulting a 67-year-old woman in November of 2021 before he was released from Riker’s Island in February of this year (though a warrant for his arrest was issued a few weeks later). The difficult question is going to be whether the Marine veteran used “unreasonable force” by applying the chokehold, and it’s simply not as cut and dried as Hochul makes it out to be.

The same is true for Hochul’s absolutist stance on self-defense. No, you don’t have the right to take another person’s life on a whim or in the commission of a crime, but you most certainly do have the right to use deadly force to protect yourself or others if there’s a legitimate threat to life and limb. Even Hochul understands that to some degree, at least when it comes to her safety. If not, the state troopers charged with protecting her life would be carrying around stun guns and bean bag rounds.