Daniel Penny to be Vance's guest at Army-Navy game USA!

Friday, December 13, 2024

Daniel Penny, the man who was found not guilty in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely, will be the personal guest of Vice President-elect JD Vance at the Army-Navy game on Saturday. Vance and Penny will watch the game from Trump's suite at the Washington Commanders Stadium in Landover, Maryland, at 3 p.m. ET. Penny, a former Marine, was acquitted Monday in the New York chokehold case, with a jury finding him not guilty of criminally negligent homicide. "Daniel's a good guy, and New York's mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone," Vance wrote in a post on X."I'm grateful he accepted my invitation and hope he's able to have fun and appreciate how much his fellow citizens admire his courage."

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Prosecutors accused Penny, who was 24 years old at the time of the incident, of causing Neely's death after putting the 30-year-old homeless man in a chokehold on a subway train in May 2023.

Neely, who had a history of mental illness, had been shouting and acting erratically when he boarded the subway. Juan Alberto Vazquez, who witnessed the altercation on the subway, told NBC's New York station at the time that Neely was being aggressive.

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Very cool

#1 | Posted by BellRinger at 2024-12-13 11:57 AM

www.theguardian.com

a police interview following Neely's death, Penny referred to Neely as "just a crackhead" who was "acting like a lunatic". Experts say Penny's acquittal fits into a longstanding pattern of how white vigilante crime is treated in the US, with white killers celebrated and Black victims denigrated.

"In situations where people of color have tried to defend themselves, it's a whole different result," said Mark Brodin, a professor of law at Boston College Law School. "It's as transparent a double standard as you can ever imagine. And race is the only explanation. Class enters into it with Mr Neely, his mental problems entered into it. But race is at the top of the pyramid."