Sean Hannity audience member ‘cheers’ NYC subway rider who killed homeless passenger
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A grand jury is expected to decide if Daniel Penny will be criminally charged in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely.
The jury is likely to consider if Neely posed a threat to other passengers and if the accused 24-year-old ex-Marine used excess force, reported ABC News.
Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man, was killed in a New York City subway train last Monday after he apparently suffered a mental health episode.
Penny put Neely in a chokehold with the help of two others after which the latter died.
The incident has sparked demands for justice for Neely. Protesters were seen flooding the NYC subway system to demonstrate against the killing.
In one such protest, dozens leapt on to subway tracks at Lexington Avenue and East 63rd St at around 6.30pm on Saturday, forcing a Q train driver to slam the brakes as he entered the station, showed a Twitter .
The protests have led to the arrests of 12 people, with six others wanted for criminal trespassing.
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1683536400Jordan Neely wanted help. A brutal narrative about homelessness blamed him for his own death
On a Monday afternoon F train in Manhattan, a passenger wrestled another man to the ground and wrapped his arm around his neck for several minutes. He died moments later.
Jordan Neely’s death was recorded by another passenger and preserved in a widely shared . The 24-year-old former US Marine who placed Neely in a chokehold was identified by his attorneys on 5 May as Daniel Penny. He was released from police custody after the incident without any charge.
His cause of death was a homicide. The 30-year-old Black man – known for his precise Michael Jackson impersonations on subway platforms while experiencing homelessness in New York City – died from the compression against his neck, according to the city’s medical examiner.
New Yorkers are no strangers to unstable or disruptive people who ride the city’s 6,500 subway cars; subway riders typically keep to themselves and ignore them.
But Neely’s death has revived volatile media narratives about New York’s homeless population, spinning an act of vigilantism to blame the person killed by it. The mayor and governor have not explicitly condemned the act of lethal violence, raising questions among New York leaders whether the city considers the life of a homeless Black man less valuable than a white stranger prepared to use deadly force.
Alex Woodward reports on how damaging rhetoric and policy failures have exposed thousands of homeless Americans to vigilante violence.
Bevan Hurley8 May 2023 10:00
1683532800New York prosecutors investigate Jordan Neely’s death as ex-Marine hires Alvin Bragg’s former rival
Prosecutors could bring manslaughter charges against a subway passenger who choked a homeless man to death, according to legal experts, as New Yorkers plead for justice in the wake of the killing ofJordan Neely on a Manhattan F train.
A grand jury could determine whether criminal charges are brought against the man who was filmed with his arm wrapped around Neely’s neck, according to officials speaking with several New York outlets.
A law enforcement official close to the investigation told ABC News that the case is likely to go to a grand jury, which would convene to determine whether criminal charges are warranted.
Detectives have reportedly interviewed several witnesses and are looking to talk to “four or five more” who were close to the scene, according to the network.
Daniel Penny, who was filmed with his arm around Neely’s neck, has retained legal representation from attorneys with the firm Raiser and Kenniff. Mr Penny has not been charged with any crime.
Alex Woodward has more details.
Bevan Hurley8 May 2023 09:00
1683529200Jordan Neely testified at trial after his mother was murdered in 2007
Relatives of Jordan Neely have spoken out following the killing of the 30-year-old homeless man in an incident on the New York subway.
His father, Andrew Zachary, told The New York Daily News that Neely’s mother had been murdered by her boyfriend when he was 18 years old, back in 2007.
Christie Neely’s boyfriend was reportedly convicted in 2012 of strangling her and was sentenced to three decades behind bars.
Gustaf Kilander has more details.
Bevan Hurley8 May 2023 08:00
1683527425Jordan Neely identified as NYC’s list of ‘homeless indiuals with dire needs’
Jordan Neely was on a list of homeless people identified as having dire needs, reported CNN citing sources.
The list, maintained by the New York City Department of Homeless Service, though not made public, is compiled in the hope that outreach organisations will lookout for the indiuals and inform the department in case there is a need for intervention.
Namita Singh8 May 2023 07:30
1683525737Grand jury to decide if Marine veteran to be criminally charged in Neely’s death
A grand jury is expected to decide if Daniel Penny will be criminally charged in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely, reported ABC News.
The jury is likely to consider if the 24-year-old ex-Marine used excess force by putting Neely in a chokehold and if Neely posed a threat to other passengers.
Neely, a locally-known Michael Jackson impersonator who friends say suffered from worsening mental health, died on 1 May when a fellow rider pulled him to the floor and pinned him with a hold taught in Marine combat training.
Neely had been screaming at other passengers but hadn’t attacked anyone, according to a freelance journalist who filmed Neely’s final minutes.
The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is investigating the incident. No charges have been announced yet.
Namita Singh8 May 2023 07:02
1683525600Kayleigh McEnany mocks protesters marching against killing of Jordan Neely
Fox News anchor and former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany appeared to use racist tropes to mock demonstrators who took to the street in New York City in recent days to protest the killing of Jordan Neely, a Black homeless man who was choked to death by a white former Marine.
On Friday, after showing a clip of activists chanting, “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now” and other slogans to the beat of a drum, Ms McEnany cracked a smile and said, “Well, at least they have rhythm,” eliciting laughs from her cohosts.
The Fox anchor also condemned people who have “already made up their minds” about the killing, in which 24-year-old Daniel J Penny was filmed choking Neely for an estimated 15 minutes.
Kat Abughazaleh, an analyst at watchdog group Media Matters for America, said Ms McEnany’s rhetoric “mocks Black people protesting the killing of Jordan Neely.”
Ms McEnany didn’t know what race the protesters were and didn’t actually see the being played on air when she made her comment, the anchor said in a statement to The Independent through a network spokesperson.
Josh Marcus has the story.
Bevan Hurley8 May 2023 07:00
1683522000New York prosecutors investigate Jordan Neely’s death
Prosecutors could bring manslaughter charges against a subway passenger who choked a homeless man to death, according to legal experts, as New Yorkers plead for justice in the wake of the killing ofJordan Neely on a Manhattan F train.
A grand jury could determine whether criminal charges are brought against the man who was filmed with his arm wrapped around Neely’s neck, according to officials speaking with several New York outlets.
A law enforcement official close to the investigation told ABC News that the case is likely to go to a grand jury, which would convene to determine whether criminal charges are warranted.
Detectives have reportedly interviewed several witnesses and are looking to talk to “four or five more” who were close to the scene, according to the network.
Daniel Penny, who was filmed with his arm around Neely’s neck, has retained legal representation from attorneys with the firm Raiser and Kenniff. Mr Penny has not been charged with any crime.
Alex Woodward has more details.
Bevan Hurley8 May 2023 06:00
1683518400Police ask for photographs and s of Jordan Neely death
The NYPD are appealing for information, photographs, or of Jordan Neely’s death at the Broadway-Lafayette Street subway station last Monday.
Mr Neely’s death has been ruled a homicide, and the man who placed him in a chokehold as been identified as former US Marine Daniel Penny.
Manhattan prosecutors are investigating his death.
Bevan Hurley8 May 2023 05:00
1683514836Who was Jordan Neely?
After his mother was murdered when he was 14, Jordan Neely became an expert Michael Jackson impersonator, performing on the subway and in Times Square, his skills eent in a number of s widely shared on social media in the wake of his death.
Bevan Hurley8 May 2023 04:00
1683511236Watch: Sean Hannity audience member ‘cheers’ NYC subway rider who killed homeless passenger
Jordan Neely was pinned to the ground on Monday, 1 May, after apparently suffering a mental health episode and later died.
As the host played footage of the incident, he said: “After making violent threats… a mentally ill homeless guy with a long history of violent crime was, well, subdued by a bystander, a 24-year-old Marine vet.”
Sean Hannity audience member ‘cheers’ NYC subway rider who killed homeless passenger
A Fox News audience member cheered as Sean Hannity referred to a US marine who placed a homeless passenger in a chokehold on the New York City subway. Jordan Neely was pinned to the ground on Monday, 1 May, after apparently suffering a mental health episode and later died. As the host played footage of the incident, he said: “After making violent threats… a mentally ill homeless guy with a long history of violent crime was, well, subdued by a bystander, a 24-year-old Marine vet.” It is not clear if the audience member knew Mr Neely died. Sign up for our newsletters.
Bevan Hurley8 May 2023 03:00
