Radio Renaissance - Jared Taylor - The Penny Verdict
Aired: 2024-12-12
Duration: 11:02


=== Screaming And Half-Lunge Movements (03:45) ===

[00:00:00]  Daniel Penny is a free man.
[00:00:02]  This is a huge step forward after the insanity that swept the country after George Floyd died in 2020.
[00:00:10]  And some people are claiming this is the end of an era.
[00:00:13]  If it is, it's only because white people are coming to their senses.
[00:00:18]  Without their connivance and participation, we would never have had George Floyd madness.
[00:00:25]  Many black people don't seem to have changed.
[00:00:28]  But they'll fizzle out without white support.
[00:00:31]  On May 1st last year, 24-year-old architecture student and former Marine Daniel Penny was riding on the New York City subway.
[00:00:39]  30-year-old Jordan Neely got on and started acting crazy and dangerous.
[00:00:44]  As Wikipedia reports, he was screaming, I don't mind going to jail and getting life in prison.
[00:00:50]  I'm ready to die.
[00:00:51]  Someone is going to die today.
[00:00:54]  He made half-lunge movements within half a foot of people.
[00:00:58]  A mother with a child hid behind her stroller, believing she might be killed.
[00:01:02]  Penny initially ignored Neely, but acted after he saw Neely approach the mother and son hiding behind a stroller while saying, I will kill.
[00:01:12]  That was when Mr. Penny took him to the floor of the subway car, where a black man helped restrain Neely.
[00:01:19]  Here's what a witness told the police.
[00:01:21]  The guy with the brown jacket took him to the ground.
[00:01:27]  Not a little hard to pull, just enough to secure him.
[00:01:30]  And the guy fought.
[00:01:31]  And he kept holding him.
[00:01:33]  And then everybody totally realized what was going on.
[00:01:37]  I think this guy was on drugs.
[00:01:40]  You know, because when he came in, he was unbelievably off the charts.
[00:01:45]  He's scared the living day lights out.
[00:01:48]  At trial, one woman testified that she thought she was truly going to die after Jordan Neely boarded the subway.
[00:01:55]  Mr. Penny used what the media wrongly calls a chokehold.
[00:02:00]  Choking means blocking the airway.
[00:02:03]  Note Mr. Penny's elbow right below the chin.
[00:02:05]  It's impossible to choke someone that way.
[00:02:08]  Instead, Penny was using his forearm and biceps to press on Penny's carotid arteries that feed the brain.
[00:02:15]  Cut off the blood and someone passes out.
[00:02:18]  My personal police expert, Officer John Patterson, says he has immobilized 100 violent perps with that technique.
[00:02:27]  There's no choking.
[00:02:28]  It's called the vascular neck restraint.
[00:02:32]  The DA's office was out to get Mr. Penny, and the medical examiner ruled the death a homicide by strangulation.
[00:02:39]  She made her ruling while still waiting for toxicology results.
[00:02:44]  So she didn't even know that Neely was high on artificial marijuana, which can be 100 times more potent than the natural stuff.
[00:02:53]  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.
[00:03:02]  He also had a sickle cell condition that can limit breathing.
[00:03:06]  Blacks started screaming.
[00:03:09]  Three days after the incident, this lady was demanding...
[00:03:12]  Arrest Daniel Penny and everyone that was on that train.
[00:03:16]  Just a few days after that, protesters clash with police at demonstrations over Jordan Neely's death, 11 arrested.
[00:03:23]  This one was yelling about racism, but was not arrested.
[00:03:27]  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.

=== Racial Divide In Justice (07:31) ===

[00:03:41]  He dropped all charges against the arrested protesters.
[00:03:45]  All this was big news.
[00:03:48]  Voice of America wrote, reaction to NY subway killing breaks along partisan divide.
[00:03:54]  It should have said, along racial divide.
[00:03:58]  Black Congressman Jamal Bowman said, we have another black man publicly executed.
[00:04:05]  34-year Congresswoman Maxine Waters said Neely was murdered by a vigilante who pinned him down and choked him to death.
[00:04:14]  Just two days after the incident, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, Jordan Neely was murdered.
[00:04:21]  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.
[00:04:31]  Just three days after Neely's death, a black woman wrote for the New York Times, making people uncomfortable can now get you killed.
[00:04:39]  All she said about Jordan Neely was that he was a Michael Jackson impersonator experiencing homelessness who cried out some disturbing things.
[00:04:50]  Roxane Gay failed to mention that the last time Neely did his Michael Jackson act was probably 10 years ago.
[00:04:57]  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
[00:05:09]  Roxanne didn't mention that Neely's father abandoned him, and he stayed with his grandparents when he wasn't on the streets.
[00:05:17]  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.
[00:05:26]  Nor did Roxanne mention Neely's 42 arrests that included serious violence.
[00:05:32]  Neely was far more important dead than alive.
[00:05:35]  He got a lavish George Floyd-style funeral where Al Sharpton roared about racism in America.
[00:05:42]  I doubt that Al needed notes.
[00:05:44]  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.
[00:05:53]  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.
[00:06:03]  While Mr. Neely's family members and supporters have packed the courtroom gallery, Mr. Penny's relatives were less evident.
[00:06:11]  Maybe they had jobs.
[00:06:13]  The blacks were there to keep pressure on jurors, and Neely's father did his best.
[00:06:19]  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.
[00:06:28]  Every day blacks were at the courthouse with bullhorns.
[00:06:32]  They made such a racket you could hear no justice, no peace in the courtroom on the 13th floor.
[00:06:38]  Mr. Penny's lawyers said this was jury intimidation.
[00:06:41]  The judge said it was free speech.
[00:06:44]  At least jurors couldn't hear this bit of black eloquence.
[00:06:48]  By the end of the trial, They were pro-Penny demonstrators.
[00:06:52]  This guy's wearing a Marine jacket, and his sign says, Daniel Penny is a hero.
[00:06:58]  Maxwell Wiley told jurors to deliberate only on the most serious charge of second-degree murder.
[00:07:04]  If they voted to acquit, they could then consider the lesser charge of negligent homicide.
[00:07:10]  The jury deadlocked.
[00:07:12]  That should have been a mistrial.
[00:07:13]  But the prosecution asked to withdraw the more serious charge and tell the jury to decide on negligent homicide.
[00:07:21]  In what one independent lawyer called a blatant miscarriage of justice, the judge agreed.
[00:07:28]  Obviously, the idea was that if some jurors wouldn't convict on the more serious charge, they would come around on the lesser charge.
[00:07:36]  To everyone's surprise, including mine, the jury acquitted him.
[00:07:41]  The Times tried to downplay what happened next.
[00:07:45]  Neely's father lashed out at supporters of Mr. Penny and the judge asked him to leave the room.
[00:07:51]  Justice Wiley shouted to get control of the room.
[00:07:55]  One woman, unable to hold back her cries, ran into the hallway where her wails could be heard.
[00:08:01]  One woman.
[00:08:03]  I suppose it could have been Daniel Penny's mother.
[00:08:06]  As Mr. Neely's family was escorted out of the courtroom, Why did they need an escort?
[00:08:12]  Hawk Newsom, a co-founder of BLM Greater New York, said toward Mr. Penny, it's a small world, buddy.
[00:08:20]  Several people gasped and court officers urged the group to keep moving.
[00:08:25]  Hawk spoke later to the media.
[00:08:28]  We need some black vigilantes.
[00:08:31]  That's right.
[00:08:32]  People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud?
[00:08:40]  How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us?
[00:08:45]  Here's the other co-founder of BLM New York.
[00:08:48]  People who keep asking, are we gonna riot?
[00:08:50]  Are we gonna protest?
[00:08:51]  Is that what's needed?
[00:08:53]  Do glass have to break?
[00:08:55]  Do cars have to burn for a black man to get justice in America?
[00:08:59]  We can't show up with peace.
[00:09:01]  We can't show up with facts.
[00:09:02]  We can't show up with evidence and witness after witness.
[00:09:06]  You give us nothing.
[00:09:07]  And then you asked us to love this country.
[00:09:10]  America hates black people, and we see it from that jury pool.
[00:09:14]  There were three non-white jurors, by the way.
[00:09:18]  Some overexcited blacks were arrested.
[00:09:21]  Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
[00:09:27]  But America has changed since George Floyd madness.
[00:09:35]  The NAACP tweeted idiotically that white people now have license for vigilante justice to be waged on the black community without consequences.
[00:09:43]  This guy told his 100,000 followers that the train to Auschwitz was the only train penny should ever be allowed on.
[00:09:50]  But without white support, this stuff goes nowhere.
[00:09:54]  And not many whites are buying it.
[00:09:57]  Christopher Rufo tweeted, Today's verdict marks the end of an era.
[00:10:01]  BLM, which seemed unstoppable four years ago, is finished.
[00:10:05]  Maybe he's right.
[00:10:07]  It's been a good fall season.
[00:10:09]  It brought us Donald Trump.
[00:10:11]  It brought us recall elections that ended the careers of three pro-criminal Californians.
[00:10:17]  Oakland booted both its mayor and DA.
[00:10:21]  Los Angeles got rid of Soros DA Chesa Boudin.
[00:10:25]  California passed by a 20% margin, Prop 36. Americans can learn.
[00:10:40]  Who knew?
[00:10:42]  Have we made enough progress to revisit some of the worst outrages?
[00:10:46]  The conviction of Derek Chauvin, who used a police-approved restraint on a man with a lethal dose of fentanyl?
[00:10:54]  Or the three men who were railroaded into life sentences in the Ahmed Arbery case?
[00:11:01]  Probably not.