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December 10, 2024

New York Jury Acquits Daniel Penny, Who Killed Distressed Street Performer Jordan Neely
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A New York jury on Monday acquitted subway vigilante Daniel Penny in the
chokehold death of street performer Jordan Neely on a Manhattan subway
train last May, finding Penny not guilty of criminally negligent
homicide. Thirty-year-old Neely, a beloved Michael Jackson impersonator,
was unhoused and hungry, and crying out for help when Penny, a white
former U.S. marine, attacked him and pinned him down on a subway train
by the neck for six minutes. Neely's family has separately filed a civil
lawsuit against Penny. Neely's father, Andre Zachery, was removed from
the New York courtroom yesterday after protesting the not-guilty
verdict, along with others. Zachery spoke from outside the courthouse.

Andre Zachery: "I miss my son. My son didn't have to go through this. I
didn't have to go through this, either. It hurts, really, really hurts.
What are we going to do, people? What's going to happen to us now? I had
enough of this. System is rigged. Come on, people. Let's do something
about this."



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