The Trials of Daniel Penny
Daniel Penny listens as Officer Teodoro Tejada testifies at the start of his trial for the 2023 death of Jordan Neely, October 3, 2024. (Jane Rosenberg via Reuters)
The white student who killed a black homeless man on the subway last year is either a killer or Good Samaritan, depending on who you ask. Finally, a jury will decide.
“You feel like a man for killing a black man?”
Those words were hurled from the back of a courtroom earlier this month at Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old former Marine charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the killing of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man and sometime street performer whose tragic death on the F t…
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