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What the Arrest of Daniel Penny is All About
American Thinker ^ | 18 May. 2023 | Robert Weissberg

Posted on 05/18/2023 4:47:02 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The New York City subway incident in which former Marine Daniel Penny, whose chokehold inadvertently killed career criminal and homeless vagrant Jordan Neely quickly became front-page news. Matters exploded when Alvin Bragg, Manhattan’s Soros-funded district attorney, charged Penny with second-degree manslaughter. Presidential hopeful Ron DeSantis made reference to at a campaign rally, and Penny’s defense fund has thus far raised more than two million dollars from 42,000 contributors Hard to say where it will end, but the incident has obviously touched a public nerve. There’s something about the episode that transcends the simple facts of a good Samaritan’s intervention going wrong and a progressive local DA stirring the racial pot.

Most Americans do not ride New York City subways, so the psychological dimension to this incident is not easily grasped. Yet it is this psychological element that makes it important far beyond the bare-bones legal facts.

Regular subway riders -- me included -- are always aware of certain inescapable realities. These realities come with city life, knowing New York City’s troubled past (remember the film Death Wish?) and having a keen eye for one’s surroundings.

Experienced subway riders know that they are trapped for minimally three minutes, longer on express trains and, occasionally even longer if there’s a track fire, a broken switch, or a stuck train. You are also stuck with all the people on the ten-car train (usually a 100+). Furthermore, though walking between cars is prohibited, people ignore the restriction (doors are unlocked), so forget about choosing only cars with non-threatening fellow passengers. That scruffy vagrant you saw sleeping in the end car before you boarded a crowded middle car may soon be standing over you requesting a “donation.”

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KEYWORDS: daniel; danielpenny; penny; selfdefense
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To: MtnClimber

Its the continued saga of treating criminals as victims and heroes as villains. Simple.


21 posted on 05/18/2023 5:55:46 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: MtnClimber

For progressives, Democrats, Kissing Black Ass is an existential neccisit

It’s that simple


22 posted on 05/18/2023 5:59:30 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day )
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To: RoosterRedux
That goes both ways, doesn’t it?

Do you think this article would have been posted in American Thinker by this author if the homeless mutant had been a white military veteran who did three combat tours in Iraq … and the “Good Samaritan” had been a black Muslim?

I think the author — and many conservatives — reflexively jumped on the bandwagon to support Daniel Penny simply because the case seemed to fit a narrative that reinforces their world view.

I wouldn’t be so quick to assume there’s an underlying motive at work here in this prosecution. From all the reports I’ve read, I think there is a legitimate question about whether Penny had any reason to put his hands on the deranged mutant in the first place.

23 posted on 05/18/2023 6:01:09 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I've just pissed in my pants and nobody can do anything about it." -- Major Fambrough)
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To: RoosterRedux

Read the article. Then comment you brought this to a complete tangent a racist tangent and you didn’t even read the article

For anyone interested- not you Mr redux not reading the article:

I am a former subway rider. I see what the article talks about. Whether anyone on that car was racist or not the situation was not driven by race Whether anyone in the DAs office is driven by race that is an aside. The article is what I’m commenting on. The DAs office is driven by the same thing city governments admire driven by whether they use race or not. It’s about progressive politics versus human nature/natural law

Evil vs good.

Anyone can ignorantly reduce this to race. That’s cheap

Read the article.


24 posted on 05/18/2023 6:02:22 AM PDT by stanne
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To: RoosterRedux

“ Do you think for a moment that if Daniel Penny were black or if Neely were white, there would be an arrest? ”

We’re commenting on the article. You are writing your own article Go ahead and write one and get it published. Right now we’re commenting on this one


25 posted on 05/18/2023 6:04:31 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne
I read the article.

And as a former NYer, I am very familiar with Alvin Bragg and NYC politics.

Alvin Bragg is a racist.

And you are a Marxist tool afraid of the truth (perhaps afraid of being called a racist for telling the truth).

26 posted on 05/18/2023 6:04:59 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: RoosterRedux

“ BTW, the entire idea behind Alvin Bragg’s leniency on crime has to do with race. It’s about the oppression of black men”

Again- write your own article.
Myouve led all the ignorant here to comment on your uninformed take on this situation

It’s stupid


27 posted on 05/18/2023 6:05:52 AM PDT by stanne
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To: ansel12

“ JFK emptied the mental hospitals”

? JFK. Care to cite any evidence?


28 posted on 05/18/2023 6:06:56 AM PDT by stanne
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To: RoosterRedux

“ I think the author — and many conservatives — reflexively jumped on the bandwagon to support Daniel Penny simply because the case seemed to fit a narrative that reinforces their world view.”

Did anyone read the article?


29 posted on 05/18/2023 6:08:17 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne
Er...the article is on a subject. The discussion is about the subject of the article. Commenters do not have to strictly agree with the way the author of the article presented the subject or stay with the boundaries used by the author of the article.

The issue of Daniel Penny's arrest has everything to do with racism.

Sorry that your fear of being a racist has you cowed.

30 posted on 05/18/2023 6:08:24 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: 50sDad

Considering what prosecutors like Alvin Bragg do to any billionaire who doesn’t toe the party line, Bruce Wayne might decide to live elsewhere.


31 posted on 05/18/2023 6:08:27 AM PDT by jmcenanly (You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.” ― Winston)
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To: RoosterRedux

Yes. The discussion is about the subject but not of the article, the headline

I was hoping for a discussion of the article but this is a discussion of the rooster redux version of what the article should be

It’s a lot of uninformed nonsense


32 posted on 05/18/2023 6:10:30 AM PDT by stanne
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To: jmcenanly

“ Considering what prosecutors like Alvin Bragg do to any billionaire who doesn’t toe the party line, Bruce Wayne might decide to live elsewhere.”

Trump certainly left NY.


33 posted on 05/18/2023 6:11:27 AM PDT by stanne
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To: stanne

I didn’t make the comment you quoted there.


34 posted on 05/18/2023 6:11:54 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: stanne
I was hoping for a discussion of the article

Gosh. I hope I didn't hurt your feelings.

35 posted on 05/18/2023 6:13:14 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: stanne
It’s a lot of uninformed nonsense

I spent the better part of my career in NYC. I know NYC. I have lived all over NYC. I have taken the subway all over NYC. I love NYC.

If anyone is uninformed, it is you.

36 posted on 05/18/2023 6:18:48 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (See my FR homepage for a link to the entire Bible narrated by David Suchet on youtube. FREE!)
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To: stanne
So blacks can't be racist?
Go here to the 17:30 minute mark and listen to what that big lipped a-hole mayor of thinks.
37 posted on 05/18/2023 6:28:17 AM PDT by stevio (Fight until you die.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Daniel Penny should be offered a job in the Secret Service. I’d decline the offer but his ticket to a good life should be printed by now.


38 posted on 05/18/2023 6:29:08 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: RoosterRedux

I’m third generation off the boat New Yorker havin lived for years in Manhattan and travelled the subway much of it

I know that people in NYC can manage a situation on a subway car as in this situation, without considering race

You didn’t e
Read the article and you’re making up your own.


39 posted on 05/18/2023 6:29:32 AM PDT by stanne
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To: MtnClimber

BTTT


40 posted on 05/18/2023 6:31:56 AM PDT by nopardons
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