Posted on 05/04/2023 9:05:46 AM PDT by shadowlands1960
The city medical examiner has ruled the death of a homeless man choked by a Marine on the subway earlier this week a homicide — as prosecutors mulled whether to pursue charges.
Jordan Neely’s cause of death was “compression of neck (chokehold)” and the manner constituted a homicide, the medical examiner determined Wednesday afternoon.
Neely, 30, was reportedly homeless and having a mental episode onboard an F train in lower Manhattan Monday afternoon when another straphanger jumped in to restrain him, according to police and witness accounts.
The wannabe vigilante, identified as a 24-year-old Marine from Queens, took down Neely from behind and placed him in a chokehold for about 15 minutes, police said.
Neely passed out and when EMS arrived, they were unable to revive him.
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Neely, 30, was reportedly homeless and having a*** mental episode*** onboard an F train in lower Manhattan Monday afternoon when another straphanger jumped in to restrain him, according to police and witness accounts.
Mental episode????????????
Thank you.
Exactly. Homicide means killed by a human. He was and he should have been.
Not enough for what?
Menacing in the third degree doesn't require "touching".
One can appropriately defend themselves in that scenario.
Not premeditated or intended. Plus the dynamic of being in a defensive situation in a closed space.
You end up with maybe a low level manslaughter. There’s the x factor of white choked black.
Yes. I doubt they could claim ‘depraved indifference’ as the actions were defensive in nature.
Of course it was a “homicide.” That’s not the same as saying he was a victim of a crime. Self-defense, defense of third parties, etc. are “homicides” but they are excused.
> Not enough for what? <
Not enough for a NYC jury to acquit him.
This happened in NYC. The jury will be made up of assorted liberals, welfare cases, and BLM supporters. The best this Marine can hope for is that there’s a subway rider on the jury. Then maybe it’s a hung jury.
Apparently the guy (Neely) was screaming at the other passengers, saying he didn’t have anything to eat or drink, wanted to go to jail and wasn’t afraid to die. Then started throwing trash at passengers.
Obviously the man didn’t deserve to die for this but given the amount of crime committed on the subway every day by homeless people, and the fact the he stopped the chokehold once Neely stopped struggling, I could see a reasonable jury acquitting the Marine. This will be an interesting case.
“Homicide doesn’t mean murder”
Exactly.
homicide
hŏm′ĭ-sīd″, hō′mĭ-
noun
The killing of one person by another, regardless of intention or legality.
A person who kills another person.
A person who kills another; a manslayer.
Good post there. You said, “I could see a reasonable jury acquitting the Marine.”
Yep. But as I noted in my post #28, a NYC jury will not be reasonable. Like it or not, this Marine is in serious trouble.
The lesson here is not to just sit and do nothing. The lesson is to stay out of liberal hell-holes, if you can.
Let the riots begin. He and his family best go into hiding, if they haven’t already. It’s a shame Go Fund Me would never allow donations for the marine on its page.
I would never want to be tried by a NY jury. I’m sure it would be worse for a white, heterosexual marine.
Now we will learn the big exception to Bragg’s policy on non-prosecutions, if you get my drift.
It’s interesting actually. I use the comments section on various articles on the NYT Intelligencer to try and determine the extreme liberal mindset on any given issue and/or event. There were actually a few commenters on an article on this that were in support of the marine. So maybe he would have a chance, I don’t know.
So this is what they're now calling men who step up and act like men. Great. Expect more men (and women) to turn their backs on innocent people who need to be rescued from the evil lunatics in our society.
Subway rider on the jury?
There are over 1 billion NYC subway rides per year. Maybe they can ride one.
Not really leaning are you?
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