Christopher Neely, uncle of the slain Jordan Neely, was arrested Monday night near the Port Authority Bus Terminal for allegedly stealing pocketbooks from restaurants, police source said. What we know about NYC subway choking victim Jordan Neely Jordan Neely, 30, a homeless man, was strangled aboard a northbound F train just before 2:30 p.m. May 1, according to police.
Penny, who was seen on video applying the chokehold, was taken into custody and later released. He was eventually charged with
Why is there fallout over Neely’s death? Neely’s aunt told The Post that he became a “ “The whole system just failed him. He fell through the cracks of the system,” Carolyn Neely said. Daniel Penny served as an infantry squad leader
He surrendered to authorities 11 days after he placed Neely in a fatal chokehold on an F train. Penny remains out on bail. Christopher Neely told The Post that Penny “has to be taught what he did was wrong.” headtopics.com
“I don’t have anything to say to Mayor Adams — I don’t know any mayor who parties and bull—ts like Adams,” he told The Post. “Nobody black that’s in the neighborhood really believes in him.
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Daniel Penny Breaks Silence, Says Jordan Neely Killing ‘Had Nothing to Do With Race’Daniel Penny, the man charged in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely, broke his silence in an extended interview where he rejected any claims the killing of the 30-year-old homeless Black man was motivated by race. Speaking exclusively to The New York Post, Penny did not go into detail about what exactly happened on the train to prompt him to…
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Daniel Penny, the man who held Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold, says race had nothing to do with it, New York Post reports | CNNThe Marine veteran who held an unhoused Black man in a deadly chokehold aboard a New York City subway train earlier this month defended his actions and said in an interview with the New York Post the killing “had nothing to do with race.”
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