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Vice President-elect JD Vance announced Friday that his guest at this weekend’s Army-Navy football game will be Daniel Penny , the military veteran“Daniel’s a good guy, and New York’s mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone,” Vance
Neely was homeless and struggling with schizophrenia in May 2023 when he frightened passengers on a subway car, prompting Penny, who is white, to restrain Neely, who is Black.Penny placed Neely in a six-minute chokehold, continuing to restrict Neely’s neck for around a minute after he appeared to lose consciousness on the floor of the car. Bystander video showed others wondering aloud whether Neely was dying.
Passengers said that Neely had appeared threatening on the train, allegedly expressing a willingness to hurt people. He was later found to be unarmed, and to have synthetic marijuana in his system.During Penny’s trial, on charges brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, prosecutors tried to convince a jury that the former U.S. Marine used far too much force in the situation.Don't let this be the end of the free press.
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