{"id":141174,"date":"2023-05-12T10:53:10","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T14:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=141174"},"modified":"2023-05-12T10:53:56","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T14:53:56","slug":"daniel-penny-marine-veteran-that-pinned-jordan-neely-faces-a-second-degree-manslaughter-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141174","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Penny, Marine veteran that pinned Jordan Neely, faces a second degree manslaughter charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_141175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141175\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/People-hold-up-signs-arguing-that-being-homeless-is-not-a-crime-by-Brooke-Lansdale-and-AP.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-141175\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/People-hold-up-signs-arguing-that-being-homeless-is-not-a-crime-by-Brooke-Lansdale-and-AP-300x215.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/People-hold-up-signs-arguing-that-being-homeless-is-not-a-crime-by-Brooke-Lansdale-and-AP-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/People-hold-up-signs-arguing-that-being-homeless-is-not-a-crime-by-Brooke-Lansdale-and-AP-465x333.jpg 465w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/People-hold-up-signs-arguing-that-being-homeless-is-not-a-crime-by-Brooke-Lansdale-and-AP-768x551.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/People-hold-up-signs-arguing-that-being-homeless-is-not-a-crime-by-Brooke-Lansdale-and-AP.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\"><strong>People hold up signs arguing that being homeless is not a crime. (Brooke Lansdale\/AP)<\/strong><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Daniel Penny was the Marine veteran that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=140877\">pinned<\/a> Jordan Neely on board a subway train in New York. According to the article, he is expected to be arrested in order to face a charge of second degree manslaughter. One witness to the event claims that Neely was screaming and begging for money; however, Neely did not physically attack anybody. Penny&#8217;s attorneys previously stated that Penny and a couple of others restrained Neely in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">From the Military Times:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>NEW YORK &#8212; Manhattan prosecutors said Thursday they will bring criminal charges against the Marine Corps veteran who used a fatal chokehold on an unruly passenger aboard a New York City subway train.<\/p>\n<p>Daniel Penny, 24, who served as a Marine infantryman from 2017&#8211;2021, will be arrested and face a charge of second degree manslaughter, which could carry a jail term of up to 15 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We cannot provide any additional information until he has been arraigned in Manhattan Criminal Court, which we expect to take place tomorrow,&#8221; the Manhattan district attorney&#8217;s office said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The charges come nearly two weeks after Penny pinned fellow subway rider Jordan Neely, 30, to the floor of a subway car and put him in a chokehold that lasted for several minutes.<\/p>\n<p>According to a freelance journalist who witnessed the struggle, Neely, who is Black, had been screaming and begging for money aboard the train prior to the takedown, but had not physically attacked anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Attorneys for Penny, who is white, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. They previously said their client, along with two other riders who helped restrain Neely, had acted in self-defense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Military Times has additional <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/2023\/05\/12\/marine-vet-who-choked-nyc-subway-rider-to-death-will-face-manslaughter\/\">information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Penny was the Marine veteran that pinned Jordan Neely on board a subway train in &hellip; <a title=\"Daniel Penny, Marine veteran that pinned Jordan Neely, faces a second degree manslaughter charge\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141174\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Daniel Penny, Marine veteran that pinned Jordan Neely, faces a second degree manslaughter charge<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-society","category-veterans-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}