The Killing of Jordan Neely: An Honestly Roundtable
New Yorkers attend a vigil for Jordan Neely, who was fatally choked on the subway by former Marine Daniel Penny. (Spencer Platt via Getty Images)
When homelessness, mental illness, and vigilantism collide on the subway.
It has been six weeks since Jordan Neely, a homeless man suffering from severe mental illness, was choked to death on a subway car by a former Marine named Daniel Penny. Many on the car were terrified of Neely, who had been threatening commuters. Penny, responding to a scene that has become all too familiar in New York’s subway system, restrained him in…
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