Posted on 01/02/2025 4:13:16 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The political prosecution of Daniel Penny in New York City may have failed, but the chilling effect it will have on public safety, especially in the subway system, will resonate for years.
Penny is a former U.S. Marine who found himself in the same subway car as Jordan Neely, a mentally ill homeless man with a history of violence. According to witnesses who were in the same car, Neely was acting erratically and saying things such as, “Someone is going to die today,” and “I want to go to Rikers. I want to go to prison.” Penny put Neely in a chokehold to restrain him, and Neely ended up dying.
Most reasonable, rational people would view this as an unfortunate but expected outcome of threats of imminent violence by a mentally unstable vagrant. Penny acted heroically to protect people on the subway who would not have been able to protect themselves from Neely, whether he had any weapons or not. Neely’s death was avoidable, but it was avoidable if he had been under the supervision of a responsible justice system, mental health officials with the authority to keep him in their care, or a family who cared about him. Unfortunately for Neely, he had none of those things.
Unfortunately for Penny, the lack of a responsible justice system applied to him, too. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, notorious for letting violent criminals off the hook while trying to destroy people who protect themselves or others from violent criminals, decided that he must destroy Penny for his “crime,” a decision almost certainly influenced by the racial politics of criminal justice reform and Black Lives Matter, given that Penny is white and Neely was black.
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Anarcho-Tyranny = Punish the Innocent, Reward the Guilty
If it was Mandatory for ALL Public Employee’s to use EV’s or Mass Public Transit for their daily commute to work, the problem would be solved.
Most heroes are hardwired to just do the right thing when the situation demands it. “I regret that I have but one life to give to my fellow subway passenger.”
Mission accomplished.
I think that was the idea.
Meanwhile in Portland Oregon, the disgraced outgoing DA is trying to release some murderers from prison before the new DA gets in.
Bragg did it.
The message to all is now to join the ranks of the “dinseenuffin” crowd or face court time and maybe end up in prison getting attacked.
I truly wish that I would be thus hardwired, but I strongly suspect my instinct would be: I need to get the Hell out of here.
The New York Young Republican Club should buy ads on the subways that say: “You voted for chaos and crime when you voted Democrat.”
It being Oregon, I'm guessing there are no Republicans to "pounce."
Wouldn’t stop me.
Who cares? All I care about is that Dan got off.
““You voted for chaos and crime when you voted Democrat.”
Or as you are being pushed on the tracks, stabbed, having the snot beat out you, lit on fire etc...remember you voted democrat.
Bkmk
My county along with the majority of counties voted Trump.
Portland and Eugene are democrat communist dens.
For the USA to better itself, places like NYC need to crash.
The NY Republican Party are cucks who are in on the scam. They are happy to play the role of minority party in the one-party neo-marxist NY State, as long as their jobs are secure.
It sounds like you know the NY Young Republicans personally.
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