Breaking: Daniel Penny Found Not Guilty
Former Marine Daniel Penny has been found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in a New York courtroom today.
The not guilty verdict came after the jurors began their second round of deliberations.
The 12 jurors were deadlocked for on the more serious charge of manslaughter, which was then dropped by the prosecution last Friday.
The judge instructed the jurors to return Monday to decide the second charge. It took them just a few hours to come up with the “not guilty” verdict. That they were deadlocked on the more serious charge but acquitted him so quickly on the lesser charge indicates that there was one holdout who realized he didn’t want to waste any more time in court.
Penny was facing 20 years in prison for the manslaughter charge before it was dropped on Friday.
The lesser charge of negligent homicide still carried a 15 year maximum sentence, if convicted.
CBS News reports that chaos erupted in the courtroom upon the reading of the not guilty verdict.
Neely’s father, who had abandoned him, had to be removed from the courtroom after standing up and shouting obscenities. He’s also now suing Penny civilly to use his homeless son’s death as a cash grab.
This comes as the latest blow to NYC District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who also unsuccessfully tried to prosecute former President Donald Trump.
Bragg has made a career of losing on “trumped up” charges.
The New York chapter of Black Lives Matter, run by Hawk Newsome had a completely predictable response: Calls for violence.
Meanwhile, some see this as signaling an end to the influence of the very group Newsome is part of.
Disbar Alvin Bragg. This DEI is the deivil incarnate. State bar associations are just old boy clubs. They treat legitimate complaints like cocktail coasters.
If Penny was black with a knife (Williams) or Neely a white man, Alvin Bragg would NEVER have brought charges. Bragg’s action is consistently those of a of a Tyrannical Racist Bigot.
Thank goodness that there at least 12 people with some common sense in New York. It’s just a shame they have a corrupt DA. It’s fantastic that Daniel Penny was found not guilty for protecting others on that subway train. The tragedy here though, is even though he was found not guilty, others will never be willing to get involved to do the right thing and protect others from criminal lunatics in the future. Daniel Penny is a hero, but his life was turned upside down by a corrupt criminal justice system in New York City. By the way, the worst governor to ever serve New York is also guilty of allowing this miscarriage of justice to go forward. She had the power to end this, but she is no better than Alvin Bragg. Both are human trash