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White Terrorist, Daniel Penny, Only Charged With Manslaughter For Choking Jordan Neely.
Saturday, 13 May, 2023
USA Today: As a memorial service next week for Jordan Neely is being organized, his killer Daniel Penny awaits trial, where prosecutors will seek a grand jury indictment on a charge of manslaughter. On Friday, Penny was arrested less than 24 hours after Manhattan prosecutors announced the charge of manslaughter, and then he was released on bond. The 24-year-old could face up to 15 years in prison for administering a fatal chokehold on Neely, a 30-year-old Black man experiencing homelessness, on May 1 after an altercation on board the subway. In the days following Neely's death, New York police failed to release substantial details about what happened on board the subway car leading up to the chokehold, as well as what happened in the minutes leading up to the arrival of police. A medical examiner ruled Neely's death a homicide caused by depression of the neck. Lawyers for Penny, a white U.S. Marine Corps veteran, say he acted in self-defense. Bystanders on board the subway on May 1 have said Neely did not physically assault anyone in the moments leading up to Penny grabbing him from behind, lawyers say. What charges is Daniel Penny facing? Nearly two weeks after administering a fatal chokehold on Neely, prosecutors announced Penny would be charged with second degree manslaughter. On Friday, lawyer Lennon Edwards said the Manhattan district attorney "admitted" to him he could not recall a single other instance in the past 25 years where a suspect in a death case was released from custody after police secured a confession and video evidence, as in the case of Penny. "He should have been arrested on the spot," the day of the incident, said Edwards, a lawyer for Neely's family. On Friday, a judge authorized Penny’s release on $100,000 bond and ordered him to surrender his passport and not to leave New York without approval. Edwards said the district attorney had told Neely's father this week to expect a possible indictment in June.
