Did Daniel Penny Murder Jordan Neely? | NYC Subway Vigilante Is Found

On May 1, 2023, a 30 year old black homeless man and former dancer/Michael Jackson impressionist Jordan Neely was killed after being placed in a chokehold by a former Marine, Daniel Penny. According to witnesses, Jordan Neely entered an F train yelling that he was hungry and thirsty, then started to behave threateningly when Daniel Penny pulled him to the ground for fifteen minutes. Video journalist Juan Alberto Vazquez captured the final few moments of the encounter, where Jordan Neely can be seen struggling for breath before going limp as three men hold him down and another discusses chokehold technique.

The incident sparked outrage from housing and mental health activists, while drawing support elsewhere for Daniel Penny's vigilantism. In this video, Alex Sheremet recounts his own experiences with de-escalating violent situations with the mentally ill, while picking through witness accounts, analyzing Daniel Penny's behavior and background, Jordan Neely's history of being a healthy individual to his later homelessness, and right-wing / conservative accounts of crime. He spends some time with the work of Richard Hanania, who often discusses street crime despite very little knowledge of the specifics.

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