This week, demonstrators on the left and the police battled over the killing of Jordan Neely. They disrupted the New York City subway system over the weekend by jumping on the rails.
The New York Post said that seven people were arrested after the ruckus at the Lexington Avenue and 63rd Street subway stop on the Upper East Side.
Despite the fact that Neely’s death had nothing to do with police, leftists in New York City assaulted officers.
Photographer Rebecca Brannon tweeted out a couple clips from the events that unfolded following Saturday afternoon:
College student and U.S. Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny, 24, and another passenger or passengers held Neely down until he died. On Monday afternoon, Neely allegedly went on a violent rampage in the train, behaving erratically and shouting that he didn’t care if he went to jail.
According to a report in the New York Daily News, Manhattan’s prosecutors and police met to discuss whether or not to forward the case to a grand jury. A law enforcement official informed the media outlet that five motorcyclists dialed 911 before, after, and during the brawl. People who phoned reported that Neely was threatening them and that he was “harassing” and “attacking” them. Penny, it was reported, had him held down until the police came. Despite a second caller’s claims that Neely was armed with a “knife or gun,” police were unable to locate any such weapons on Neely.
On Wednesday, the medical examiner for New York City ruled that Neely’s death was the result of a “chokehold” and classified it as a “homicide,” although this does not prove that anybody committed a crime.
Penny’s attorney released a statement on Friday saying that her client “was involved in a tragic incident on the NYC Subway that led to Jordan Neely’s death.”
Raiser and Kenniff, P.C., a legal firm, issued the following statement:
Neely, at 30 years old, had been arrested 42 times by the NYPD during the previous decade.
According to the New York Daily News, Neely was arrested in November of 2021 and charged with assault. His alleged offense was “slapping a 67-year-old woman he didn’t know in the face.” The incident severely injured the woman, and Neely was incarcerated for over a year as a result.