{"id":121061,"date":"2024-11-02T03:30:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121061"},"modified":"2024-11-02T03:30:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:30:46","slug":"prosecutor-says-veterans-subway-chokehold-went-too-far-defense-says-his-courage-helped-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=121061","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor says veteran&#8217;s subway chokehold &#8216;went too far.&#8217; Defense says his &#8216;courage&#8217; helped others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 Prosecutors and defense lawyers agree on this about Marine veteran Daniel Penny\u2019s encounter last year with a distressed, angry man making ominous remarks on a New York subway: Penny didn\u2019t mean to kill him.<\/p>\n<p>But a prosecutor told jurors Friday that Penny \u201cwent way too far\u201d in trying to neutralize someone he saw as a threat and not as a person, while a defense attorney said Penny showed \u201ccourage\u201d and put others\u2019 welfare ahead of his own when he placed Jordan Neely in a chokehold that ended with Neely limp on the floor. <\/p>\n<p>Both sides gave opening statements Friday in the <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nyc-subway-chokehold-daniel-penny-jordan-neely-4ccbcc2442a39e90d1271907dc4fd35c\">manslaughter trial<\/a><\/span> surrounding Neely\u2019s death. The case has rattled fault lines surrounding race, homelessness, perceptions of public safety and bystanders\u2019 responsibility. <\/p>\n<p>Penny\u2019s critics see him as a white vigilante killer of a Black man who was behaving erratically and making dire statements but wasn\u2019t armed and hadn\u2019t assaulted or even touched anyone in the subway car. Supporters credit the 25-year-old Penny with taking action to protect frightened riders \u2014 action that he has said was meant to defuse, not kill. <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Dafna Yoran told jurors the case isn\u2019t \u201ca referendum on our society\u2019s failure to deal with mental illness and homelessness on the subway,\u201d nor on police response, on whether Penny had a right to intervene before officers arrived or even on whether his initial decision to use a chokehold was appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, she said, \u201cHe used far too much force for far too long. He went way too far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She said he showed \u201cindifference\u201d toward Neely and \u201cdidn\u2019t recognize his humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Not so, said defense lawyer Thomas Kenniff. He told jurors that Penny applied only as much force as needed to contain a \u201cseething, psychotic\u201d man who had lunged toward a woman with a small child and declared, \u201cI will kill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn that moment, Danny could look away and pray, or he could summon the courage to put the safety of his neighbors above that of himself, to protect those who could not protect themselves,\u201d and he did the latter, Kenniff said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t make him a hero. But it doesn\u2019t make him a killer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jurors, who were <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/4dcc87ff7a54de125625297bdd56a095\">quizzed earlier about their subway experiences<\/a><\/span>, later saw police body camera video of officers trying to revive Neely on the subway floor and Penny calmly explaining he had \u201cput him out.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The case has been absorbed into the United States\u2019 fractious politics, with Republican officials <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2024-republicans-subway-chokehold-death-be39b29eef4529bf996c13ec5bcd22ef\">speaking up for Penny<\/a><\/span> and Democratic ones <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/jordan-neely-daniel-penny-subway-chokehold-funeral-1bc99d85bc399c4e22a07039876a24d4\">attending Neely\u2019s funeral<\/a><\/span>. Both supporters and critics of Penny have held demonstrations; Penny arrived at the courthouse Friday to critical chants from a small group of protesters. <\/p>\n<p>Once in court, Penny sat straight up in his seat at the defense table, mostly looking directly ahead. A member of Neely\u2019s family who was in the audience sometimes sniffled with tears. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know who the victim is in this case, and we know who the villain is,\u201d family lawyer Donte Mills said outside court.<\/p>\n<p>Neely\u2019s life was tattered by mental illness and drug use after his mother was murdered and stuffed in a suitcase when he was a teen, his family has said. By 30, he sometimes entertained subway riders as a Michael Jackson impersonator, but he also had a criminal record that included assaulting a woman at a subway station.<\/p>\n<p>Penny, an architecture student who served four years in the Marines, was going from a college class to a gym when he encountered Neely on a subway May 1, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Neely was begging for money, shouting about being willing to die or go to jail, and making sudden movements, according to witnesses. Yoran said Neely talked about hurting people. <\/p>\n<p>Penny put his arm around the man\u2019s neck, took him to the floor and held Neely there, with Penny\u2019s legs around him. <\/p>\n<p>With a bystander recording some of the encounter on video, Penny held Neely for about six minutes, Yoran said. The hold continued as the train stopped at a station, all but two fellow riders got off, those two helped restrain Neely, and another warned Penny, \u201cIf you don\u2019t let him go now, you\u2019re going to kill him,\u201d according to her statement and court papers.<\/p>\n<p>Kenniff said Penny was pleading with fellow passengers to call police and that he kept holding Neely because the man periodically flailed or tried to get up. <\/p>\n<p>Penny ultimately released Neely nearly a minute after his body went limp, prosecutors said. He waited for police, but Yoran noted that although Penny was trained in first aid, he didn\u2019t check Neely\u2019s breathing or pulse or try to revive him.<\/p>\n<p>Penny later told police that he had simply wanted to \u201cde-escalate\u201d the edgy situation and wasn\u2019t trying to injure Neely but rather \u201cto keep him from hurting anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/nyc-subway-death-headlock-c1b1383b3163f3f5d2c22a267bc52f41\">medical examiners determined<\/a><\/span> that Neely died from compression of the neck. Penny\u2019s lawyers question that finding. <\/p>\n<h2>___<\/h2>\n<p>Associated Press journalists Joseph Frederick and David R. 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