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Screaming And Half-Lunge Movements
00:03:45
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| Daniel Penny is a free man. | |
| This is a huge step forward after the insanity that swept the country after George Floyd died in 2020. | |
| And some people are claiming this is the end of an era. | |
| If it is, it's only because white people are coming to their senses. | |
| Without their connivance and participation, we would never have had George Floyd madness. | |
| Many black people don't seem to have changed. | |
| But they'll fizzle out without white support. | |
| On May 1st last year, 24-year-old architecture student and former Marine Daniel Penny was riding on the New York City subway. | |
| 30-year-old Jordan Neely got on and started acting crazy and dangerous. | |
| As Wikipedia reports, he was screaming, I don't mind going to jail and getting life in prison. | |
| I'm ready to die. | |
| Someone is going to die today. | |
| He made half-lunge movements within half a foot of people. | |
| A mother with a child hid behind her stroller, believing she might be killed. | |
| Penny initially ignored Neely, but acted after he saw Neely approach the mother and son hiding behind a stroller while saying, I will kill. | |
| That was when Mr. Penny took him to the floor of the subway car, where a black man helped restrain Neely. | |
| Here's what a witness told the police. | |
| The guy with the brown jacket took him to the ground. | |
| Not a little hard to pull, just enough to secure him. | |
| And the guy fought. | |
| And he kept holding him. | |
| And then everybody totally realized what was going on. | |
| I think this guy was on drugs. | |
| You know, because when he came in, he was unbelievably off the charts. | |
| He's scared the living day lights out. | |
| At trial, one woman testified that she thought she was truly going to die after Jordan Neely boarded the subway. | |
| Mr. Penny used what the media wrongly calls a chokehold. | |
| Choking means blocking the airway. | |
| Note Mr. Penny's elbow right below the chin. | |
| It's impossible to choke someone that way. | |
| Instead, Penny was using his forearm and biceps to press on Penny's carotid arteries that feed the brain. | |
| Cut off the blood and someone passes out. | |
| My personal police expert, Officer John Patterson, says he has immobilized 100 violent perps with that technique. | |
| There's no choking. | |
| It's called the vascular neck restraint. | |
| The DA's office was out to get Mr. Penny, and the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide by strangulation. | |
| She made her ruling while still waiting for toxicology results. | |
| So she didn't even know that Neely was high on artificial marijuana, which can be 100 times more potent than the natural stuff. | |
| Astonishingly, she added that Neely could have had enough fentanyl in his system to knock down an elephant, and that still would not have changed her opinion. | |
| He also had a sickle cell condition that can limit breathing. | |
| Blacks started screaming. | |
| Three days after the incident, this lady was demanding... | |
| Arrest Daniel Penny and everyone that was on that train. | |
| Just a few days after that, protesters clash with police at demonstrations over Jordan Neely's death, 11 arrested. | |
| This one was yelling about racism, but was not arrested. | |
| The police had initially decided Mr. Penny acted reasonably, but New York DA Alvin Bragg charged him with second-degree homicide, maximum penalty 15 years, and set bond at $100,000. | |
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Racial Divide In Justice
00:07:31
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| He dropped all charges against the arrested protesters. | |
| All this was big news. | |
| Voice of America wrote, reaction to NY subway killing breaks along partisan divide. | |
| It should have said, along racial divide. | |
| Black Congressman Jamal Bowman said, we have another black man publicly executed. | |
| 34-year Congresswoman Maxine Waters said Neely was murdered by a vigilante who pinned him down and choked him to death. | |
| Just two days after the incident, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, Jordan Neely was murdered. | |
| The black speaker of the New York City Council, Adrienne Adams, railed against the double standards that black people and other people of color continue to face. | |
| Just three days after Neely's death, a black woman wrote for the New York Times, making people uncomfortable can now get you killed. | |
| All she said about Jordan Neely was that he was a Michael Jackson impersonator experiencing homelessness who cried out some disturbing things. | |
| Roxane Gay failed to mention that the last time Neely did his Michael Jackson act was probably 10 years ago. | |
| also that when he was eighteen his mother who had had him when she was eighteen and single was murdered by her boy friend that this put him into a psychotic tailspin | |
| Roxanne didn't mention that Neely's father abandoned him, and he stayed with his grandparents when he wasn't on the streets. | |
| She didn't write that in 2010 he threatened to kill his grandfather, and they wouldn't let him inside sometimes at night because they were afraid of him. | |
| Nor did Roxanne mention Neely's 42 arrests that included serious violence. | |
| Neely was far more important dead than alive. | |
| He got a lavish George Floyd-style funeral where Al Sharpton roared about racism in America. | |
| I doubt that Al needed notes. | |
| When the trial began in late October, Neely's father, who had paid no attention to his son for years, showed up in court every day. | |
| A revolving group of family members comes each day, largely cordoned off by activists and members of the Reverend Al Sharpton's National Action Network. | |
| While Mr. Neely's family members and supporters have packed the courtroom gallery, Mr. Penny's relatives were less evident. | |
| Maybe they had jobs. | |
| The blacks were there to keep pressure on jurors, and Neely's father did his best. | |
| After the woman testified she thought she would die, Neely's father stood up in the gallery and as he left said, she's a fucking liar. | |
| Every day blacks were at the courthouse with bullhorns. | |
| They made such a racket you could hear no justice, no peace in the courtroom on the 13th floor. | |
| Mr. Penny's lawyers said this was jury intimidation. | |
| The judge said it was free speech. | |
| At least jurors couldn't hear this bit of black eloquence. | |
| By the end of the trial, They were pro-Penny demonstrators. | |
| This guy's wearing a Marine jacket, and his sign says, Daniel Penny is a hero. | |
| Maxwell Wiley told jurors to deliberate only on the most serious charge of second-degree murder. | |
| If they voted to acquit, they could then consider the lesser charge of negligent homicide. | |
| The jury deadlocked. | |
| That should have been a mistrial. | |
| But the prosecution asked to withdraw the more serious charge and tell the jury to decide on negligent homicide. | |
| In what one independent lawyer called a blatant miscarriage of justice, the judge agreed. | |
| Obviously, the idea was that if some jurors wouldn't convict on the more serious charge, they would come around on the lesser charge. | |
| To everyone's surprise, including mine, the jury acquitted him. | |
| The Times tried to downplay what happened next. | |
| Neely's father lashed out at supporters of Mr. Penny and the judge asked him to leave the room. | |
| Justice Wiley shouted to get control of the room. | |
| One woman, unable to hold back her cries, ran into the hallway where her wails could be heard. | |
| One woman. | |
| I suppose it could have been Daniel Penny's mother. | |
| As Mr. Neely's family was escorted out of the courtroom, Why did they need an escort? | |
| Hawk Newsom, a co-founder of BLM Greater New York, said toward Mr. Penny, it's a small world, buddy. | |
| Several people gasped and court officers urged the group to keep moving. | |
| Hawk spoke later to the media. | |
| We need some black vigilantes. | |
| That's right. | |
| People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud? | |
| How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us? | |
| Here's the other co-founder of BLM New York. | |
| People who keep asking, are we gonna riot? | |
| Are we gonna protest? | |
| Is that what's needed? | |
| Do glass have to break? | |
| Do cars have to burn for a black man to get justice in America? | |
| We can't show up with peace. | |
| We can't show up with facts. | |
| We can't show up with evidence and witness after witness. | |
| You give us nothing. | |
| And then you asked us to love this country. | |
| America hates black people, and we see it from that jury pool. | |
| There were three non-white jurors, by the way. | |
| Some overexcited blacks were arrested. | |
| Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. | |
| But America has changed since George Floyd madness. | |
| The NAACP tweeted idiotically that white people now have license for vigilante justice to be waged on the black community without consequences. | |
| This guy told his 100,000 followers that the train to Auschwitz was the only train penny should ever be allowed on. | |
| But without white support, this stuff goes nowhere. | |
| And not many whites are buying it. | |
| Christopher Rufo tweeted, Today's verdict marks the end of an era. | |
| BLM, which seemed unstoppable four years ago, is finished. | |
| Maybe he's right. | |
| It's been a good fall season. | |
| It brought us Donald Trump. | |
| It brought us recall elections that ended the careers of three pro-criminal Californians. | |
| Oakland booted both its mayor and DA. | |
| Los Angeles got rid of Soros DA Chesa Boudin. | |
| California passed by a 20% margin, Prop 36. Americans can learn. | |
| Who knew? | |
| Have we made enough progress to revisit some of the worst outrages? | |
| The conviction of Derek Chauvin, who used a police-approved restraint on a man with a lethal dose of fentanyl? | |
| Or the three men who were railroaded into life sentences in the Ahmed Arbery case? | |
| Probably not. | |