Posted on 12/09/2024 11:51:33 AM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
The New York Daily News held a vigil for Neely ... CNN remembered Neely as “an entertainer” and “a kind and sweet soul.” He was a “talented dancer” who had a “fan club,” The Guardian recounted. Those who defended Neely and the subway riders who assisted him were guilty of “spinning an act of vigilantism to blame the person killed by it,” The Independent’s Alex Woodward declared.
Elected officials in New York went further in the effort to cast Penny as the true threat to civic order.
“To say anything else is an equivocation that will only further a narrative that devalues the life of a Black, homeless man with mental health challenges and encourages an attitude of dehumanization of New Yorkers in greatest need,” New York City’s public advocate, Jumaane Williams, said ...“Jordan Neely was murdered,” said Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...State senator Jabari Brisport (said) “Jordan Neely was lynched"...
New York governor Kathy Hochul concurred with her party’s most injudicious actors. Neely was “known by many of the regular travelers,” the governor said. Video of the confrontation convinced her that Neely was “not going to, you know, cause harm to others” and there was no need for half his train car to hold “him down until the last breath was snuffed out of him.”
All of it amounted to an effort to try Daniel Penny in the court of public opinion. Democrats filtered this event through a highly abstract philosophical framework that rendered Neely and Penny one-dimensional caricatures in a grand political drama. That abstraction was unrecognizable to New York City’s subway riders. It certainly didn’t connect with the jury.
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Yup! Thug worship at its finest.
Protected class?
They need to be staked out feet first at low tide waterline.
Meanwhile, charges were dropped against, who fatally stabbed a man on a NYC subway defending his girlfriend. Yet no love for Devictor Ouedraogo
Jury nullifiction by the media.
Meanwhile, charges were dropped against Jordan Williams, who fatally stabbed a man on a NYC subway defending his girlfriend. Yet no love for Devictor Ouedraogo
People on the Left have pushed their ideology so far to the extreme that it is insane. And, by their feverish commitment to this insane ideology, they have themselves gone insane.
Sue Bragg for malicious prosecution?
Are you kidding? He's a social justice warrior extraordinaire. Their watering hole shrinks a bit more each day until it's bone dry in January. Thousands of dim-witted, highly compensated, Soros affiliated prosecutors, all trying to drink from the same muddy mess that's still there.
I personally can't be anything but giddy as I see Steve Mulroy in Memphis begging for a spot at that muddy hole to get his drink.
Whites are to submit to violent black criminals. Black leadership wants subjugation of whites.
Don’t forget the taxpayer. All state and city officials who acted wrongly should be personally liable for costs.
Who needs any more reasons not to ever visit NYC again?
Funny thing is, that “black leadership” you mention is only in power because they submit to a hidden group of old white men known as the cabal.
Just like the entire democrat party does, most without realizing it.
Peanut, the squirrel, had more followers than these idiots.
Agreed. They got the facts backwards - Penny is the one they tried to lynch.
NEELY had 43 charges for his behavior.
Where is the culpability of NEW York for NOT settling this sooner???
The public has less safety than a totally crazy man on the loose.
And people wonder why we want guns !!!!!
BECAUSE WE ALL DO NOT HAVE A PERSONAL DANIEL PENNY AROUND US.
He was still breathing when the EMS folks arrived.
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