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WATCH: What Really Happened Between Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely
WATCH: What Really Happened Between Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely
Daniel Penny puts Jordan Neely in a choke hold after Neely’s outburst on the F train on May 1, 2023. (The Free Press)
For the first time, our exclusive compilation of bodycam and bystander footage reveals, minute by minute, the scene on that F train.
By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova
11.25.24
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WATCH: What Really Happened Between Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely

Six minutes. That’s all it took for two men to meet on the F train in New York City—and for their lives to change forever. It began a little after 2 p.m. on Monday, May 1, 2023. Jordan Neely, a homeless black man who suffered from schizophrenia, began screaming on the F train that he was looking for food. According to witnesses, Neely said he was “ready…

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Olivia Reingold

Olivia Reingold is a staff writer at The Free Press.She has cocreated and executive produced Matthew Yglesias’s podcast, Bad Takes. She got her start in public radio, regularly appearing on NPR for her reporting on indigenous communities in Montana. She previously produced podcasts at Politico, where she shaped conversations with world leaders like Jens Stoltenberg.

Tanya Lukyanova

Tanya Lukyanova is a video journalist at The Free Press.

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