During the incident in question, the 30-year-old Jordan Neely, a homeless black man, was harassing and threatening multiple passengers on a New York City subway.Witnesses said he tore off his jacket and threw it on the ground, before screaming that he was ready to go to prison and that he was not afraid to die.
“He said, ‘I don’t care. I’ll take a bullet, I’ll go to jail’ because he would kill people on the train,” said a 66-year-old woman who was on the train car when the incident happened. “He said, ‘I would kill a motherf—er. I don’t care. I’ll take a bullet. I’ll go to jail.’”
Penny eventually confronted Neely by approaching him from behind and putting him in a chokehold, with several other passengers quickly helping to restrain him.
- Once Neely lost consciousness, Penny turned Neely on his side and kept his limbs moving in an effort to revive him until paramedics arrived.
He was later pronounced dead, and although the Manhattan medical examiner ruled Neely’s death a homicide, there is still no proof that his death was directly related to Penny’s chokehold...
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