Daniel Penny is walked out of the New York Police Division fifth Precinct on Might 12 after he surrendered to authorities after being charged with second diploma manslaughter within the chokehold loss of life of Jordan Neely.
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Daniel Penny is walked out of the New York Police Division fifth Precinct on Might 12 after he surrendered to authorities after being charged with second diploma manslaughter within the chokehold loss of life of Jordan Neely.
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In his first interview since putting Jordan Neely in a deadly chokehold, former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny insisted that the confrontation between the 2 “had nothing to do with race,” and he was “not a white supremacist.”
“All people who’s ever met me can inform you, I like all folks, I like all cultures,” Penny instructed the New York Publish. “I used to be really planning a street journey by means of Africa earlier than this occurred.”
Penny, 24, who’s white, faces a felony cost of second-degree manslaughter for the loss of life of Neely, a 30-year-old Black man who was homeless. The cost carries a most sentence of 15 years in jail. His subsequent courtroom date is July 17.
The altercation came about on Might 1 on a New York Metropolis subway prepare. Neely, who used to carry out on subway platforms as a Michael Jackson impersonator, was shouting that he was hungry and thirsty and moments later, Penny put Neely in a chokehold for a number of minutes. Neely was pronounced useless that very same day.
“I can inform you that the threats, the menacing, the fear that Jordan Neely launched to that prepare has already been effectively documented,” Penny instructed the Publish.
Penny added that Neely’s loss of life was tragic and the true blame ought to be on “the system.”
“It is tragic what occurred to him. Hopefully, we are able to change the system that is so desperately failed us,” he mentioned.
Penny went on to say that he felt no disgrace. When requested if he would do it once more, he nodded and mentioned, “I might — if there was a menace and hazard within the current.”
Penny was arrested greater than every week after the incident and after protests calling for him to be charged. Activists drew comparisons between Neely’s loss of life, proven in a viral video, and the deaths of Eric Garner and George Floyd, who died by the hands of white law enforcement officials.
However Penny repeatedly instructed the New York Publish that race had nothing to do with the confrontation between him and Neely.
“I choose an individual primarily based on their character. I am not a white supremacist,” he mentioned.
Neely’s funeral service came about on Friday at Harlem’s Mount Neboh Baptist Church. The Rev. Al Sharpton, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado have been amongst those that attended.
