On Monday, outside of the Manhattan courthouse where ex-Marine Daniel Penny was acquitted of manslaughter in the death of drug-addled psychotic and career criminal Jordan Neely, a host of perpetually aggrieved individuals howled for vengeance disguised as civil rights “justice” against Penny.
outside of the Manhattan courthouse where ex-Marine Daniel Penny was acquitted of manslaughter in the death of drug-addled psychotic and career criminal Jordan Neely, a host of perpetually aggrieved individuals howled for vengeance disguised as “justice” against Penny.
“And people who keep asking, ‘Are we going to riot? Are we going to protest?’” said an unidentified woman who claimed she was the co-founder of the New York chapter of Black Lives Matter. “Is that what’s needed? Do glass have to break? Do cars have to burn for a black man to get justice in America?’ We can show out with peace. We can show out with facts. We can show with evidence and witness after witness. You give us nothing, and then you ask us to love this country.”
Another even nastier activist going by the name Hawk Newsome was even more vitriolic…
We need some black vigilantes. People wanna jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud? How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us?
What brought on this avalanche of threats and recriminations?
You already know. Neely, a homeless drug addict who had either a fatal or near-fatal dose of fentanyl in his system and who had made a practice of assaulting and harassing subway riders in New York — with over 40 arrests on his record — was up to his usual tricks using a subway car as a stage but in the wrong place at the wrong time. He announced that he was prepared to kill someone if he wasn’t supplied with a modicum of money from his fellow riders, and that jail was hardly a deterrent to his demands.
So Penny confronted him and after a short struggle, he held him in a chokehold until Neely finally calmed down. But by then, given the drugs in his system and his inability to demonstrate he was no longer a threat to his fellow riders, Neely expired.
Nobody wanted Jordan Neely to die unless it was Neely, who led an awful, squalid, disgraceful life and left the world as a pristine example of how not to exist within it. But by any reasonable interpretation, Daniel Penny did the right thing in intervening and protecting his fellow man in that subway car, and Neely’s death was accidental. If he had calmed down sooner, something it seems he couldn’t do because of the drugs in his system, Penny could have let him go and he’d still be alive.
