The airwaves were filled with good news on Monday morning when a Manhattan jury returned the verdict in the Daniel Penny case. Penny was facing trial on negligent homicide charges for being a Good Samaritan and rescuing his fellow subway passengers from a crazy hobo who was threatening to murder everyone. Penny wrapped himself around the crazy hobo to restrain him, and the guy later died of a drug overdose while in police custody. It was George Floyd 2.0.
Daniel Penny is white and handsome; Jordan Neely, the former crazy hobo, was black. His acquittal is great news, but we shouldn’t forget that things went very differently in the show trial of the former Minneapolis cop, Derek Chauvin.
Part of the reason why Daniel Penny was put on trial for heroic whiteness was because of George Floyd. The circumstances of the two cases are remarkably similar. Both Penny and Chauvin were charged with murder for protecting the public from dangerous, drug-addicted career criminals who happened to be black. When Jordan Neely and George Floyd succumbed to the massive amounts of drugs in their systems, their deaths were used as political fodder to shame white Americans for their skin color.
Jordan Neely was clearly a violent homeless person who was crazy and high on drugs on the day of his death. He threatened to kill multiple people on the subway, including defenseless teenage girls and a mother with her young child.
Daniel Penny, a former US Marine, stepped in after Neely yelled out he wasn’t afraid to die. He scuffled with Neely before he could attack any of the women or children on the car. After Neely refused to comply or calm down, Penny put Neely in a chokehold. The Associated Press describes Neely as a “subway rider.”
One of the things that came out in Penny’s trial for manslaughter and negligent homicide was the fact that Jordan Neely was still alive when police arrived. When Neely’s heart finally stopped because of the massive amounts of K2 in his system, the police refused to perform CPR on him. Neely was so gross that the cops were worried they’d catch hepatitis or AIDS from him. K2, by the way, is a form of synthetic marijuana that’s about 70 times more powerful than the THC in a marijuana joint.
The obnoxious New York City medical examiner initially marked “inconclusive” on Jordan Neely’s death certificate, while noting the massive amounts of drugs in his system. After she watched the YouTube video of Daniel Penny subduing the violent, mentally ill career criminal, she changed the cause of death to “asphyxiation” the next day.
A YouTube video convinced her to change her mind. When she saw that a white guy had subdued a black guy, that was enough for her to change her mind on the cause of death. It’s 2024, after all. Good liberals know who the Good People and Bad People are in our society.
The medical examiner stated on the witness stand that after watching that YouTube video, she wouldn’t have cared if Jordan Neely had enough fentanyl in his system to kill a horse. She’d have still determined that Neely’s death was Daniel Penny’s fault.
Ironically, George Floyd had enough fentanyl in his system to kill a horse when he died. Floyd had tried to pass off a counterfeit $20 bill (from China) in a store when police showed up to question him. When he started to freak out during his interactions with Derek Chauvin and other police officers, they were forced to subdue him for the public’s safety.
Derek Chauvin knelt on the back of George Floyd’s shoulder, per Minneapolis Police Department regulations. It never came up during Derek Chauvin’s show trial in a Minneapolis kangaroo court, but there were credible reports that George Floyd was revived in the ambulance while being transported, only to expire shortly after at the hospital.
Chauvin is spending life in prison for “murdering” George Floyd. He wasn’t as lucky as Daniel Penny.
Honestly, it’s hard to believe that Daniel Penny is as lucky as Daniel Penny. Some of the jurors in his trial were wearing COVID masks in the courtroom. I figured the best that he could expect from a Manhattan jury that voted 85% for Kamala Harris would be a hung jury. A full acquittal on all charges was a pleasant surprise.
This still doesn’t tell us where we are as a society following the sustained madness that set in during the 2020 racial reckoning. Is it still okay for Good Samaritans to step in and protect others from dangerous drug addicts? Derek Chauvin would probably disagree with that. Frankly, Daniel Penny probably disagrees with the notion after the needless political hell that he was just put through.
