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Protests against the killing of homeless schizophrenic Jordan Neely on the New York City subway turned violent on Monday night, with a demonstrator pictured being restrained by police with blood pouring down his face. Neely, 30, was killed on May 1 when, while ranting and throwing garbage at subway passengers, he was put into a chokehold by a 24-year-old former Marine, Daniel Penny. Neely's death was decreed a homicide last week, and the Neely family are calling for Penny to be prosecuted. The Manhattan district attorney is weighing whether to press charges. On Monday, demonstrators calling for justice for Neely...

The man who choked a homeless person to death in a New York City subway last year is set to go to trial in October, a New York judge determined Wednesday. Daniel Penny pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the May 1 death of Jordan Neely, who was reportedly had a mental illness. Penny put Neely, a subway performer, in a fatal chokehold after he had been reportedly shouting at passengers and behaving erratically. The case attracted attention in political circles, sparking racial justice protests. An online fundraiser raised more than $3 million for his...

This past May 1 was a typical day on the New York City subways. Commuters and tourists were transiting beneath the chaos of overhead Manhattan, only to witness New York’s subterranean version of Dante’s Inferno.Specifically, a homeless man, now euphemistically called an “urban camper” or “displaced person,” was harassing fellow subway passengers. The Guardian went further in their descriptors, calling Neely “a talented dancer” who was “remembered as kind and loving” and even “had a fan club.”Neely also had a long rap sheet, a fact conveniently overlooked by most media sympathizers. According to the Daily News, Neelly has been arrested...

U.S. Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny was reportedly indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on Wednesday for defending New York City subway passengers from an erratic and threatening homeless man.The incident in question occurred on May 21, when Jordan Neely — who had been arrested 44 times for “criminal conduct” and, at the time, “had an outstanding warrant for felony assault” — began threatening and getting violent with NYC subway passengers. During the episode, Neely allegedly kept repeating the phrases, “I’m going to kill you,” “I’m prepared to go to jail for life,” and “I’m willing to die.”In response, Penny...

According to Penny before he confronted Jordan Neely, Neely was going up to everyone saying he wanted to die, go to jail, or hurt someone else. https://twitter.com/i/status/1668039813222498304

A man identified as Jordan Neely’s uncle was reportedly arrested Monday while allegedly having stolen credit cards in his possession. According to the Daily Mail, the news comes one day after he said there should be no plea deal for the veteran accused of putting his nephew, a mentally ill homeless man, in a deadly chokehold. The Mail report continued: Christopher Neely was arrested late Monday night after running away from a police pickpocket team that confronted him at the Port Authority bus terminal in Manhattan, police sources said. He was wanted for a string of larcenies in Manhattan when...

A good Samaritan, according to the Oxford Learner’s Dictionary is, “a person who gives help and sympathy to people who need it”. This concept goes back to Biblical times, specifically the book of Luke, chapter 10, and the “Parable of the Good Samaritan.” Jesus told the story of a man who was robbed, beaten, and left for dead. A priest and a Levite both saw the beaten man and walked past him, crossing to the other side of the street. But the Samaritan stopped to help the injured man, attending to his wounds, bringing him to an inn, paying the...

Ex-Marine Daniel Penny insisted to The Post Saturday that the chokehold killing of Jordan Neely had nothing to do with race — and everything to do with a broken system “that so desperately failed us.” In his first public comments since the caught-on-video May 1 tragedy on an F train, Penny was both soft-spoken and stoic about being at the center of a political and racial firestorm, as he faces criminal charges that could send him to prison for up to 15 years. “This had nothing to do with race,” said Penny, 24, sitting under a gazebo at Argyle Park...

I was debating gun control. Someone insisted that his gun was his best protection. I told him that his best protection is something he can’t even see, something he’s probably never thought about. His best protection is something ephemeral, something multisyllabic; something you can’t explain in a soundbite. “Your best protection,” I insisted, “is narrative.”My family lived in the same house for almost seventy years. I was in and out of that house for decades. Not only did I never use a key, I don’t even know if a key existed. We slept with doors and windows open. Neighbors walked...

We’ve heard from just about every progressive that there were plenty of things that Daniel Penny could have done that didn’t involve keeping Jordan Neely in a chokehold. He could have asked, “How can I help you?” Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called it murder, but in an interview said the general tactic for subway riders in distress was to “avoid eye contact, look down between their shoes, and wait for the moment to pass.” But what if the moment doesn’t pass?Rolling Stone political reporter Asawin Suebsaeng works for an outlet that gave a rape hoaxer a national platform. He, too, says...

Daniel Penny, the former Marine is facing charges of second-degree manslaughter following the death of convicted criminal Jordan Neely on a New York City subway.Penny surrendered himself at a police precinct and made a court appearance on Friday to answer the criminal charges. He was later released on a $100,000 bond without entering a plea.His legal team initiated a fund with the intention of covering the 24-year-old Long Island resident’s legal expenses, including potential future civil lawsuits and defense-related costs.The fundraising effort is taking place on GiveSendGo, a platform previously associated with individuals charged in connection with the January 6th...

Imagine, for a moment, a different scenario in the Jordan Neely case. Let’s say that Neely, a homeless individual and part-time Michael Jackson impersonator with a record of 40-plus arrests, had not been apprehended and put into a choke-hold by 24-year-old Marine vet Daniel Penny on the Manhattan-bound F-train on May 1, 2023. Let’s also imagine that Neely’s mental breakdown rant on that same subway train went from threatening violence – “I’ll hurt anyone on this train” – to actual violence in which he attacked several passengers. Imagine Neely turning on passengers by pushing, shoving, punching and kicking – as...

What it is with MSNBC hosts and their proclivity, in racially-charged cases, to recklessly accuse people of "murder?" Back in 2012, we caught Joe Scarborough branding George Zimmerman a "murderer" in the death of Trayvon Martin. Scarborough's accusation came before Zimmerman had even been arrested. And when Zimmerman was ultimately cleared of all charges, Scarborough declined to issue an apology. Today, walking in Scarborough's sordid footsteps, MSNBC host Katie Phang accused Daniel Penny of "murder" in the death of Jordan Neely, the man Penny subdued in an NYC subway who had been acting in an aggressively threatening manner. Get the...

DeSantis on Friday shared a fundraiser for Penny's legal defense, calling him a "Good Samaritan" and criticizing Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg as a "pro-criminal" and "Soros-Funded" prosecutor. "We must defeat the Soros-Funded DAs, stop the Left's pro-criminal agenda, and take back the streets for law abiding citizens. We stand with Good Samaritans like Daniel Penny. Let’s show this Marine... America’s got his back," DeSantis tweeted.

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: Witness says Jordan Neely started making death threats against passengers before Daniel Penny engaged him thepostmillennial.com Witness says Jordan Neely started making death threats against passengers before...

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a swing at Mayor Eric Adams Tuesday, saying that Jordan Neely — the homeless man who was choked to death on the subway last week — was “killed by the demonizing of the poor by many of our leaders.” Neely, 30, was having a mental episode and threatening straphangers when another subway rider, later identified as 24-year-old former Marine Daniel Penny, placed him in a chokehold, which killed him. Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday blamed the Big Apple’s leaders. “Jordan Neely was killed by public policy. He was killed by the demonizing of the poor by many of...

Protesters jump onto subway tracks, clash with NYPD over Jordan Neely’s death At least seven people were arrested in Manhattan Saturday after shutting down subway service and clashing with NYPD officers while protesting the chokehold death of homeless man Jordan Neely, law enforcement sources told The Post. Dozens of demonstrators jumped onto the subway tracks at Lexington Avenue and East 63rd Street around 6:15 p.m., forcing an oncoming Q train to slam on the brakes at the mouth of the tunnel, video shows. “No justice, no peace!” the protesters chanted as police can be heard struggling to call for order...

Video: https://twitter.com/RebsBrannon/status/1654977961810960384White liberals were out protesting the death of Jordan Nealy again on Sunday night. Nealy, a street performer, died last week when he was subdued by a former Marine and several passengers when he threatened passengers on a New York subway train. Leftists protested Nealy’s death this weekend by standing on the subway tracks. On Friday, protesters prevented passengers from exiting the train during their protests. One black man was visibly upset because he was heading to work and could not get off the train. The leftists didn’t care.

A new video shows Marine, Daniel Penny releasing the submission hold of Jordan Neely and placing him in the recovery position (5/7/23). (Credit: Mythinformed/Twitter) The death of Jordan Neely has elicited strong emotions from all sides. The homeless man was placed into a submission hold by an ex-U.S. Marine after allegedly aggressively threatening passengers on a New York subway. He was later pronounced dead after being transported to a nearby hospital.Democrats, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, have used the situation as a partisan bludgeon in an attempt to stir up unrest, suggesting that Neely was “lynched.” Thankfully, to this point,...

By Matthew Boose May 6, 2023 Arguably, the greatest indictment of leftism is its preference for the vagrant and the criminal over the law-abiding citizen and victim. In politics, there are all kinds of disagreements about the role and scope of the state, but the one thing the state must do is protect the innocent. Without security, there is anarchy. And where there is anarchy, the state can command neither legitimacy nor respect. Yet racial idolaters on the Left have pushed society to forgo basic expectations of public order and civilized conduct. Demanding anything more than day-to-day chaos would be...