Daniel Penny protected every person in that subway car. So now he’s got to pay.
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New York City seems like a gag that’s gone too far. “First, we’ll release all the criminals because too many black bodies are in prison! Then we’ll denounce the police as Nazis and refuse to prosecute any suspects they arrest. The city will be overrun with violent criminals — raping robbing, assaulting and killing at will… But if anyone steps up to protect the citizenry from the mayhem that’s been intentionally inflicted on them, well, gentleman, then we’ll prosecute the hell out of that douchebag.”
This exactly how things are playing out right now with twenty-four-year-old Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who subdued a deranged lunatic on the F train at the Broadway-Lafayette Street station in Manhattan on May 1.
According to witnesses, Jordan Neely, a thirty-year-old homeless man was pacing madly, and throwing trash at passengers trapped in a hermetically-sealed subway car with him. He said he did not mind “going to jail or getting life in prison” and was “ready to die.” (Enjoying your commute, New Yorkers?)
The ex-Marine quietly stepped behind the kook and put him in a chokehold to hold him for the police and protect everyone on that subway car. Neely struggled so much that two other men had to help secure him. Alas, Neely died in the skirmish.
In response to his death, a lot of ugly people held protests, demanding “justice” for the darling psychotic. We’re supposed to be impressed that Neely hadn’t punched anyone on the subway car yet. He was merely throwing garbage and threatening to hurt them.
If you’re wondering why would anyone imagine things might have escalated, it’s because things always escalate with crazies.
Read the whole thing here.
Neely said he didn't care if he got life in prison.
Do you know who gets life sentences in NY? Murderers.
Neely announced that he did not care if he murdered one or more passengers. He was not deterred by the prospect of life imprisonment. He was ready to accept the consequences of his violent actions. So should we.
"Alas, Neely died in the skirmish." No, he didn't. Neely was still alive when custody was given to the police. I do not know his actual cause of death, but he was not choked to death while being held by the subway passengers.