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Daniel Penny, charged in Jordan Neely death, breaks silence: ‘I am not a white supremacist’
NYPost ^ | 05 20 2022 | Dana Kennedy

Posted on 05/20/2023 8:52:59 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Ex-Marine Daniel Penny insisted to The Post Saturday that the chokehold killing of Jordan Neely had nothing to do with race — and everything to do with a broken system “that so desperately failed us.”

In his first public comments since the caught-on-video May 1 tragedy on an F train, Penny was both soft-spoken and stoic about being at the center of a political and racial firestorm, as he faces criminal charges that could send him to prison for up to 15 years.

“This had nothing to do with race,” said Penny, 24, sitting under a gazebo at Argyle Park in Babylon, not far from the Long Island beaches where he grew up surfing.

Dressed in black slacks, a blue zip-up jacket and beat-up Vans sneakers, Penny didn’t flinch when asked about Neely, a black, 30-year-old mentally ill homeless man.

“I judge a person based on their character. I’m not a white supremacist.

“I mean, it’s, it’s a little bit comical. Everybody who’s ever met me can tell you, I love all people, I love all cultures. You can tell by my past and all my travels and adventures around the world. I was actually planning a road trip through Africa before this happened.”

He is not a vigilante, Penny said. “I’m a normal guy.”

The confrontation on the train began after Neely allegedly began yelling at other straphangers and throwing trash. Penny said he could not go into detail about the events that then transpired because of his pending case, but he indicated it wasn’t like “anything I’d experienced before.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: danielpenny; godblessdaniel; jordanneely; newyork; prayersfordaniel; subway; subwayhero
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1 posted on 05/20/2023 8:52:59 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Poor guy needs to attack the Meritless Garland, Bragg and Soro$.


2 posted on 05/20/2023 8:56:42 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: yesthatjallen

I took a quick glance at the search “burial of Jordan Neely” and saw the iconic Al Sharpton milking it for every ounce of pity and fund raising he could muster through his tears.🙋🏿‍♂️

No shame.

Good people will be hurt because of this incitement.


3 posted on 05/20/2023 9:02:57 PM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: Paladin2

He needs to sue Gyorgy boy for every single penny that old nazi has!


4 posted on 05/20/2023 9:09:54 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: yesthatjallen

They hate Penny because he represents the tough individualism and patriotism of America.


5 posted on 05/20/2023 9:11:13 PM PDT by Round Earther
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To: No name given

Hey there, “Gyorgy boy”

I see what you did there and totally applaud it.


6 posted on 05/20/2023 9:13:46 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Round Earther

Personal responsibility and hence personal liberty are on the wane.

Not for the better going forward.


7 posted on 05/20/2023 9:15:54 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: yesthatjallen

FWIW no one with a brain thinks you are a “white-supremacist,” Daniel. Just the haters.


8 posted on 05/20/2023 9:19:30 PM PDT by TigersEye (Woke is a cancer of the mind and humanity)
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To: yesthatjallen

Cringe that his lawyer/PR person would even tell him to say such a ridiculous thing


9 posted on 05/20/2023 9:47:22 PM PDT by montag813
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To: yesthatjallen

Is he white? Then he must be. Ask al sharpton or aoc. 🤑


10 posted on 05/20/2023 9:54:43 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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To: yesthatjallen

There is going to be that “one last straw.”

There will be something that opens the flood gates for millions of Americans to take personal control in a massive, public way to immediately halt this epidemic of injustice and wickedness and deliver a long-overdue reckoning against these scoundrels and kooks in which they will be taught a lesson for the ages.

It’s the theme of “the man who just wants to be left alone” but, when tyrants push him too far, becomes a ruthless punisher like nobody has ever seen and unleashes the fury of hell until the streets run red with blood.


11 posted on 05/20/2023 9:56:30 PM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: Gnome1949

If only said man would also take his wrath out on the plutocrats of Palm Beach County and SW Connecticut who fund a lot of this BS.


12 posted on 05/20/2023 10:03:19 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: Gnome1949

How will we know?
When is it time?


13 posted on 05/20/2023 10:22:11 PM PDT by dadgum (Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I believe this guy. Obviously, he and the other passengers tried to do the right thing by restraining Neely. But, if the chokehold really did cause Neely’s death, then Penny still may end up in prison. I wish Penny hadn’t done anything. Then, he would be on his way to his next adventure, traveling the world.

There are many stories like Penny’s. The other day, another young man named Brandon Cowins was convicted for (he says accidentally) killing a man who’d just shot toward Cowin’s girlfriend and his neighbor. Cowins hopped into his car to chase after the armed man, in an effort (he says) to stop him from shooting at anyone else. But, because he ended up crashing and hitting the man, killing him, he was charged with 1st degree murder. The jury found him guilty of 2nd degree murder, and now he’s facing a sentence of 30 years.

This can happen to any one of us. Even with the best intentions, anyone could end up facing a jury.


14 posted on 05/20/2023 10:38:52 PM PDT by Tired of Taxes
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To: Gnome1949
There is going to be that “one last straw.” There will be something that opens the flood gates for millions of Americans to take personal control in a massive, public way to immediately halt this epidemic of injustice and wickedness and deliver a long-overdue reckoning against these scoundrels and kooks in which they will be taught a lesson for the ages.

If there is hope, wrote Winston, it lies in the proles.

If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 per cent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated. The Party could not be overthrown from within. Its enemies, if it had any enemies, had no way of coming together or even of identifying one another. Even if the legendary Brotherhood existed, as just possibly it might, it was inconceivable that its members could ever assemble in larger numbers than twos and threes. Rebellion meant a look in the eyes, an inflexion of the voice, at the most, an occasional whispered word. But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet-!

He remembered how once he had been walking down a crowded street when a tremendous shout of hundreds of voices women's voices -- had burst from a side-street a little way ahead. It was a great formidable cry of anger and despair, a deep, loud 'Oh-o-o-o-oh!' that went humming on like the reverberation of a bell. His heart had leapt. It's started! he had thought. A riot! The proles are breaking loose at last! When he had reached the spot it was to see a mob of two or three hundred women crowding round the stalls of a street market, with faces as tragic as though they had been the doomed passengers on a sinking ship. But at this moment the general despair broke down into a multitude of individual quarrels. It appeared that one of the stalls had been selling tin saucepans. They were wretched, flimsy things, but cooking-pots of any kind were always difficult to get. Now the supply had unexpectedly given out. The successful women, bumped and jostled by the rest, were trying to make off with their saucepans while dozens of others clamoured round the stall, accusing the stall-keeper of favouritism and of having more saucepans somewhere in reserve. There was a fresh outburst of yells. Two bloated women, one of them with her hair coming down, had got hold of the same saucepan and were trying to tear it out of one another's hands. For a moment they were both tugging, and then the handle came off. Winston watched them disgustedly. And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

He wrote:

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

Regards,

15 posted on 05/20/2023 10:41:35 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: yesthatjallen
Daniel Penny, charged in Jordan Neely death, breaks silence: ‘I am not a white supremacist’

Never allow your opponent to force you to adopt his language, and never allow him to coerce you into denying a dastardly accusation!

Regards,

16 posted on 05/20/2023 10:44:18 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: yesthatjallen

So what if he is?

The white race crated the 1st world, deal with it.


17 posted on 05/20/2023 10:50:26 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (Let's go Brandon)
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Don’t care if coerced into saying Trump is the worst ever.

He needs to avoid the psycho mobs and persecutor.


18 posted on 05/20/2023 11:15:25 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: yesthatjallen

No word about Neely’s drug levels? If it was fentanyl and Neely had a bad heart, he would be extremely vulnerable to death as a result of respiratory depression. Chances of death from a chokehold would be increased by the fentanyl. Neely could have been one step from heart failure. Actually all one had to do is tackle Neely and knock the wind out of him and, if he was on fentanyl, the toxic level of this drug would have been sufficient to trigger heart failure.

An example of respiratory depression is commotio cordis (the wind knocked out of one). An athlete gets hit in the chest with the ball and collapses, suffering sudden cardiac arrest. Without immediate care, the athlete will die. Instead of being a Marine, Daniel Penny could have been a football player. What would have happened if Penny tackled poor Neely?

Does one have to do a medical test for fentanyl to defend oneself and others? Are the public so stupid they have no clue about the effects of these opioids on respiration and exactly why such drugs kill?


19 posted on 05/20/2023 11:44:20 PM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: TigersEye

The haters? Broad swaths of the BLM. Everyone’s a cracker, if you’re white, you’re a supremacist.
Right from the black panther playbook.
Them’s da guys who armed up for a war on whitey.
Them’s Tha gys whose hammer and sickle ended up on the original BLM marketing materials, along with the black fist.

Gee let’s ask Angela Davis about this Bill Ayers remake.
Goly Gee, let’s talk about the weaponization of the 13% as obamanites in the name of cultural marxism.


20 posted on 05/20/2023 11:51:55 PM PDT by himno hero (had'nff)
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