Posted on 12/04/2024 9:15:17 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Mayor Eric Adams defended Daniel Penny as a Manhattan jury on Tuesday started deliberating whether to convict him of choking a troubled homeless man to death on the subway — insisting the Marine veteran was doing “what we should have done as a city.”
Hizzoner said he hoped jurors would “make the right decision” in the lightning-rod case as he blasted the “failure” of the Big Apple’s mental health system for not doing more to help Jordan Neely in the lead up to the fatal 2023 subway encounter.
“The young man, in this case, was going within our system, throughout the revolving door of our system. Now, we’re on the subway where we’re hearing someone talking about hurting people, killing people,” Adams said Saturday on 710 WOR’s “The Rob Astorino Show.”
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Me too. I hope they give him a medal.
The mayor winking at the jury.
Because he didn’t say explicitly what the right decision was, and because he didn’t actually threaten them, I supposed this is all just fine with the legal system.
The system failed Jordan Neely.
But, how the system runs is decided by the authorities or government rules/regulations/laws.
Adams is part of the rules-making, decision-makers. After the fact rhetoric does not fix the system.
As a juror, I will not convict anyone of any crime for taking out the trash.
Whatever happened to the Good Samaritan laws?
This case goes the wrong way and there will no longer be such a thing as a good Samaritan. Why risk it?
When I read that it was in Tony Soprano’s voice...
New York reaps what it sows, as we all have been. We sow e-coli, everywhere.
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