BLM Leaders Rebuke Daniel Penny Jury and Judge: 'White Supremacy'

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Source: Newsweek

Published Dec 07, 2024 at 11:43 AM EST | Updated Dec 07, 2024 at 2:22 PM EST


Members of New York's Black Lives Matter (BLM) chapter rebuked the jury and judge assigned to Daniel Penny's manslaughter trial, with one activist saying on Friday that "white supremacy got another victory." Penny, a 26-year-old former U.S. Marine, faced manslaughter and criminal negligent homicide charges in the death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man who performed as a street artist. In May 2023, Neely, who was Black, was placed in a chokehold by the veteran from Long Island, who is white, after yelling at other passengers about being hungry in a crowded subway car in New York City.

Witnesses said Neely proclaimed that he didn't care if he lived or died and that he wanted to return to jail. Penny and some others said they heard him say he was also ready to kill. Penny, who was already on the train when Neely boarded, approached him from behind and put him in a chokehold. Several minutes of the altercation were caught on bystander video and was a key piece of evidence in the trial.

The BLM activists' remarks come after Justice Maxwell Wiley dismissed Penny's manslaughter charge after the jury said they were deadlocked on whether to convict him of the top charge. The jury will return Monday to deliberate the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide.

Hawk Newsome, co-founder of New York's BLM chapter, told reporters outside court on Friday, "Racism is still alive and kicking in America...those among you who say that Daniel Penny is innocent, have racism and bias in your heart." "Today, white supremacy got another victory. Today, the KKK [Ku Klux Klan], the klansmen, the evil in America got another victory," Newsome said, adding, that the nation will "continue to place second-class status on Black people."

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/blm-white-supremacy-daniel-penny-jordan-neely-trial-1997126

[xocetaceans]

1. "Penny and some others said they heard him say he was also ready to kill." ?

It is hard to say what the actual facts are, but if Neely was threatening to kill passengers, one could see that he is responsible for how he was treated.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I always thought it was up to the prosecutors to decide whether or not to

retry a defendant after a hung jury.

[IbogaProject]

5. each state is different with that

[NotHardly]

3. "Living in a power keg and giving off sparks..."

[mymomwasright]

4. He knew what he was doing would kill that man.

Disproportionate use of force.

[Prairie Gates]

6. Denying that there can be legitimate differences of opinion on this case is just silly

"Agree with our view or you're a white supremacist!"

Ay yay yay. Whatever else one might say about the NY BLM rep's statements on this, they are manifestly poor as public argument.

[The Mouth]

7. Fuck that and fuck them

You start threatening people in public, you deserve whatever happens to you.