Veteran Daniel Penny Acquitted in NYC Subway Chokehold Case Over Jordan Neely’s Death

News 12 Long Island
By News 12 Staff
12/04/24

 

Veteran Daniel Penny Acquitted in NYC Subway Chokehold Case Over Jordan Neely’s Death

A Marine veteran who used a chokehold on an agitated subway rider was acquitted on Monday in a death that became a prism for differing views about public safety, valor and vigilantism.

A Manhattan jury cleared Daniel Penny of criminally negligent homicide in Jordan Neely ’s 2023 death. A more serious manslaughter charge was dismissed last week because the jury deadlocked on that count.

Penny, who had shown little expression during the trial, briefly