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Why were media outlets not releasing Daniel Penny’s name, but doing a full data dump on everything they know about Jordan Neely??
I mean, I know why, but isn’t it supposed to be in the public interest to know the name of a person who committed murder, even if only “allegedly”? IF the NYPD ever gets around to arresting him and charging him with a crime, he will still get his day in court—unlike Jordan Neely, the man he murdered for the “crime” of having a bad day while being Black in public.
Daniel Penny has had an entire day or so to scrub his social media accounts of any information that might incriminate him or show any racist tendencies.
👉🏿 https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1654307060840890368.html
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In some cities, the homelessness crisis on transit systems is truly life and death. On May 2, a New York subway rider choked a man who had been seen panhandling and acting erratically, killing him. Between January and March, 22 people died on LA Metro, most from overdoses and in areas commonly known as homeless hangouts, according to the Los Angeles Times. Last year, a man who had been drifting in and out of hospitals, mental health facilities, and living on the streets for decades pushed Michelle Go in front of an oncoming train, killing her. Later that year, New York City mayor Eric Adams authorized the involuntary hospitalization of some people during homeless encampment sweeps and mulled a policy of increasing ticketing and summonses for homeless people—an obvious precursor to jailing them since they do not have the money to pay any fines. Many centrist and right-leaning commentators, such as Josh Barro, paint this issue as one that “exposes a key contradiction that leftists need to resolve. Do they care about the provision of high-quality public services? Or is their primary objective to ensure that the coercive force of the state is never used to enforce rules?” The creation and enforcement of stricter rules are increasingly popular policies nationwide, and fail to address the causes of homelessness.
Nevertheless, conservative activists and think-tankers have launched coordinated campaigns to make being homeless a felony, ensuring the homelessness-to-prison pipeline becomes even more streamlined. In April of last year, Tennessee state senator Frank Niceley, in discussing one such bill, made the argument that homeless people should find inspiration in a young man who, for a brief period early in life, “lived on the streets and practiced his oratory and his body language and how to connect with the masses and then went on to lead a life that’s got him into the history books”—evidence that life on the streets is not “a dead end.” He was referring, of course, to Adolf Hitler. Tennessee passed the bill, implicitly recognizing that, generally speaking, the U.S.’s answer to homelessness, inasmuch as it has one, is prison beds or shipping them out of town for someone else to deal with.
Amongst this mess, transit agencies are caught in the middle, tasked with doing something about a problem they had no role in creating and have no way of solving, which is often used as an excuse to dedicate little to no staff or budget to the problem.
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#daniel penny#JUSTICE FOR JORDAN!!!!!#journalism fail#media bias#DefundThePolice#heartbreaking 💔#important#blacklivesmatter#black lives matter#white privilege#youtube#topic: oppression#tw: discrimination#topic: discrimination#true crime#tw: oppression#black lives movement#blue lives don't matter#blm#blue lives matter#blue lives dont exist#Youtube#stop police brutality#black lives have always mattered#black lives fucking matter#defund the cops#black lives are important#JusticeForJordanNeely#jordan neely#police brutality
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As a New Yorker, what are your thoughts on the death of Jordan Neely? I was a bit surprised to see that a sizeable segment of NYC-ers apparently support Penny, but I understand that the state of the subway has been rather unsafe of late and people feel more on the edge.
As a New Yorker, I'm not surprised that there's a segment of NYC's population who support Penny; there was a segment of NYC's population who supported Bernhard Goetz. The sad reality is that when most of the NYC media relentlessly trumpets scare stories about crime (when crime rates are actually down), people get scared of people they are told are threatening, whether that's racial minorities or homeless people or the mentally ill - and god help you if you're all three.
As for my thoughts about the death of Jordan Neely, I think it was manslaughter. From every account I've read, while Jordan Neely was clearly in the throes of a mental health crisis and was ranting and throwing his jacket on the ground, at no point did he strike or threaten anyone on the train. Ranting and shouting was apparently enough for Daniel Penny (and his as-yet-unnamed accomplices), who put Jordan Neely in a chokehold for 15 minutes. Even if Penny didn't intend to kill Neely, he definitely intended to do harm to Neely - i.e, rendering him unconscious by choking him - and Neely died of a direct result of his actions. There is a reason we banned the police from using chokeholds; there is no way to use them safely.
The state of the New York subway system (and the state of New York's mental health system) is something that's come up a lot in regards to this case. It's not actually true that the subway has become less safe - crime on the subway is in fact down - but riders think that the subway has become less safe because there are more homeless people in the subway and a lot of those people have mental health issues that riders find frightening.
That fear does not excuse Daniel Penny's actions, and mental health issues cannot be a license to murder. I've lived in New York City most of my life, in periods where rates of crime and homelessness were much worse than they are today. I've been around homeless people and housed people who're experiencing a mental health crisis, and while it can be an unsettling experience, responding with violence makes things worse. NYC is supposed to be responding to these issues with teams of mental health and social work professionals, but I don't think that it takes a mental health or social work professional to know that when someone is hungry and thirsty, maybe you respond by offering them something to eat and drink rather than killing them.
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White supremacy rebooted! Those who lynched Blacks were never, ever prosecuted. That’s because the culprits usually included judges, police officers, and regular citizens. They also believed it was their right and they’d get away with murder. Sounds familiar right?
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By Stephen Millies
Only struggle forced Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg to charge Daniel Penny ― the killer of Jordan Neely ― with manslaughter. The white vigilante Penny choked to death Neely, a Black homeless man, on a New York City subway train on May 1.
#justice for jordan neely#Jordan Neely#BlackLivesMatter#protest#NYPD#racism#homelessness#white supremacy#Daniel Penny#Alvin Bragg#Eric Adams#NYC#subway#lynching#Struggle La Lucha
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Dirty cop Alvin Bragg ensured that former Marine Daniel Penny (who risked his life to save lives) was indicted by a Manhattan New York grand jury.
I'm guessing this goes to trial in time for the 2024 election.
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#politics#mlk#jordan neely#structural racism#daniel penny#mlkjr#blacklivesmatter#racism#ingrained racism#racism deniers#martin luther king#quotes#casual racism#benevolent racism#aversive racism
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Daniel Penny could have walked away from the incident. He decided to confront and engage.
Penny used a lethal chokehold. It was excessive force. He made a decision based on his biases.
He sized up Jordan Neely and decided he could take him.
Would Geneva Conventions condone this former Marine's killing of a civilian?
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On Monday afternoon, Jordan Neely was killed after being held in a chokehold by a Marine veteran on a subway after Neely got on the train and shouted at passengers that he was hungry, thirsty and fed up with having nothing, a witness told CNN Neely -- who was experiencing homelessness, according to a source familiar with his case -- did not harm anyone nor did they see him armed with any weapon. 👇🏾 the people who are justifying his murder got me heated I swear, some of you are a bunch of nasty cold blooded mother F@!#¡rs... How do racist white folks respond to Jordan Neely gettin murdered?
By posting videos of Black folks attacking white folks.
Like that somehow justifies what happened.
And I'll bet you the Black folks got arrested & charged unlike daniel penny.
The fact that some of you are legitimately justifying murder? Really? You and I are not the same man, I wish death on no man, not even my enemies (and there people who deserve the worst kind of hell ijs) and that's how the rest of normal humans think! But you sadistic sick Fck’s are evil individuals. I said what I said! Not taking any words back. RIP Jordan Neely 🖤🙏🏾✊🏾 we want justice!
#jordan neely#daniel penny#reblogview post#blm#homelessness#blacklivesmatter#true crime#sigh#these pos motherfuckers refuse to see the compassion of black folks who are mentally ill and homeless#journalism fail#you disgusting#selfish#disgusting fuck#if you agreed with this shit#if you don't see the compassion of them you can happily go die in a fire#i'll even light you the fuck up#on god#black lives matter#seriously kill yourself rn#And I’m so serious#you can die in a fire#media bias
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