Heather Mac Donald: After Penny Verdict, Put New York Officials on Trial.
Another great article from the incomparable Mac Donald
Excerpts:
The Daniel Penny homicide trial was a travesty of justice. On May 1, 2023, a psychotic, wildly gesticulating vagrant burst into a New York subway car as it travelled beneath Manhattan’s SoHo district. The new arrival, Jordan Neely, started screaming that he wanted to return to jail and was ready to die. Some eyewitnesses recalled that the 30-year-old Neely threatened to kill the straphangers.
The passengers were terrified, and rightly so. New York’s seriously mentally ill residents are time bombs who regularly explode….
Penny was worse than white, however. He was the nightmare of every Women’s Studies major: a blond, tall, former Marine. If Hollywood still made traditional Westerns, Penny would be the sheriff that introduces order to the wild frontier. Penny was not defending himself; he was defending those weaker than himself. Such self-sacrifice is the essence of male chivalry, which must be eradicated to pave the way for the nanny state’s monopoly on human action….
If Neely had not killed anyone by May 2023, it was not for lack of trying. In 2019, Neely punched Filemon Castillo Baltazar in the head as the 65-year-old waited for a subway in Greenwich Village. In June 2021, he walloped Anne Mitcheltree in the head inside a deli in the East Village; she was in her late sixties. In November 2021, Neely broke the nose and fractured the eye socket of a 67-year-old woman as she exited a subway on the Lower East Side.
[It’s weird that Neely’s “mental illness” did not prevent him from seeking out weak, elderly victims.]
Read the whole thing here.
Thank you Ann for the link to full Heather Mac Donald article. Thank God and goodness we now know what we know. If the November election had not spoken volumes as it did, worsening drugs on the street (K-2) and disparate impact would bury law abiding citizens alive even more. Heather’s article mentioned Penny “recklessly disregarded the risk of death”. Preposterous ness applied to a criminal history of hard drug use. Thank God and goodness chivalry is not dead. If what I heard is accurate, Mr. Penny awaits a civil trial from the father of the subway menace. I hope Penny is not put through the wringer any more. Enough is enough.
Penny should get the Presidential Medal of Freedom! Maybe name that subway line after him.