The jury got it right—Daniel Penny is found not guilty. Ben Shapiro breaks down why this verdict matters for self-defense, accountability, and public safety in America. Watch Ben react now! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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all righty folks so the daniel penny verdict is in he has been acquitted thank god thank god the jury did the right thing i'll bring all the details in just one second first this is your reminder that dw plus gift memberships are 40 off that is truth premium entertainment investigative journalism all in one year a year of daily wire plus truly the perfect gift for the holidays even if it's for yourself head over to dailywire.com right now all right so
Daniel Penny has now been found not guilty by the jury in Manhattan in the so-called chokehold death of Jordan Neely. So you remember the video. This is where the drug-addled, mentally ill, homeless person is abusing people on the subway, threatening them physically. And Daniel Penny, who's a veteran, comes up behind him and puts him in a submission hold.
Again, the goal of the submission hold is to make him submit. It is to either push him to submit or to push him into unconsciousness. It was not to kill him. There's all sorts of evidence that was presented, particularly by the defense, showing that it was not, in fact, the quote-unquote chokehold that killed him.
There was no deprivation of air to his lungs, for example, so he didn't die because there was damage to the trachea, for example. And obviously, this entire situation occurred because Daniel Penny was trying to defend all of the other members of the public on the subway from the predations of Jordan Neely. And the...
basic presumption, I suppose, in the city of New York is that if you are a person who tries to defend your fellow citizens from criminals, then you must be prosecuted if you are of one color and the person who ends up dead is of another color. If you are white and the person who ends up dead is black, then you will be prosecuted. If you're both white, probably not. If you're
That is the way that this particular case was prosecuted from the very beginning. And it was deeply corrupt. This was ever prosecuted in the first place. It was all caught on tape. There are other members of the public who are trying to help out Daniel Penny to force Jordan Neely to stop his aggressive activity.
According to the New York Post, the panelists acquitted Penny of criminal negligent homicide, which could have put him behind bars for up to four years. Manslaughter was tossed on Friday after jurors said they could not reach a unanimous verdict on that particular matter. Jurors did side with the defense attorneys.
They'd argue that the Marine veteran was justified in rushing to protect fellow subway strangers when he subdued the erratic homeless man. The lawyers had questioned whether there was sufficient evidence that the chokehold actually caused the death as opposed to, you know, him being high as a kite, as opposed to his prior health issues and all of the rest.
People testified in the trial who were on the train suggested that they were in fear for their lives because of what Jordan Neely was ranting. He was ranting about being quote-unquote willing to die and to go to jail. One of the strangers testified that she was scared bleepless to hear Neely rant and then thanked Penny for stepping in to restrain Neely.
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