Monday, December 9, 2024

Daniel Penny To Walk Free

 As you may know, the jury in the Daniel Penny trial had deadlocked last week over a manslaughter charge, resulting in New York District Attorney's Office requesting that the manslaughter charge be dismissed, which requested was granted by the judge. Although it was legally questionable after such dismissal, the judge allowed the jury to then consider a lesser included charge of negligent homicide. The jury has returned a verdict this morning finding Daniel Penny not guilty of the negligent homicide charge

    James Kunstler gives a succinct background of how Daniel Penny came to be the subject of the modern day equivalent of a lynching:

A year and a half ago, the US marine veteran [Daniel Penny], age 26, subdued one Jordan Neely, 30, a homeless schizophrenic with a record of 42 arrests who was menacing riders on a New York City subway car. Neely was, at the time, a fugitive on an arrest warrant for felony assault on a sixty-seven-year-old woman. Penny applied a choke hold after Neely declared he was of a mind to kill somebody on the train. Neely was still alive when the cops came, but they declined to give him CPR because he was filthy and an apparent drug-user, and they feared getting AIDS or hepatitis from giving him mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. . . so Neely died there in the subway.

Unfortunately for Penny, "in places like New York, the [criminal justice] system picks winners and losers based on political affiliation and skin color." His case was assigned to Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Dafna Yoran, a radical Jewish, white-hating, lesbian who is married to 'Peruvian pro-Black Lives Matter artist' Ana De Orbegoso. 

    Yoran was already infamous (and apparently very proud) of her role in getting a severely reduced sentence for a black man that killed an elderly Asian professor during a mugging in 2018.

    Matthew Lee, 57, was originally facing a 25 year-to-life sentence on murder charges when he attacked beloved Lehman College instructor Young Kun Kim, 87, from behind and snatched money the victim had withdrawn from an ATM on May 13, 2018. 

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    Prosecutor Dafna Yoran, who handled Lee’s case, negotiated to reduce the possible life sentence to a mere 10 years behind bars after the assailant participated in a restorative justice program initiated by then-Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr.

In Penny's case, however, Yoran was not interested in justice; the prosecution repeatedly referred to Penny during the trial simply as "the white man".

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