Daniel Penny ‘should be celebrated’ for actions leading up to fatal chokehold of Jordan Neely: lawyer By Katherine Donlevy
May 12, 2023 9:08pm Updated More On: jordan neely In rush to charge Daniel Penny, Bragg again showed he’s on Team Crime CUNY students boo and turn back on Mayor Adams when he brings up cop past at graduation Alvin Bragg didn’t trust a grand jury to do his bidding in Daniel Penny subway chokehold case Lawyers for Jordan Neely’s family say Daniel Penny deserves murder charges, not just manslaughter Daniel Penny, the Marine who placed Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold, “should be celebrated” for jumping into action “for the benefit of others” on the crowded Manhattan subway, his lawyer asserted in a new radio interview. Thomas Kenniff made the remarks Friday night on WABC’s ‘Cats & Cosby’ show hours after Penny, 24, was arraigned on a charge of second-degree manslaughter.
“He didn’t enter the subway seeking to harm anyone. He didn’t attack anyone,” Kenniff said of Penny. “He was really putting himself in harm’s way for the benefit of others. He shouldn’t be pilloried for that. He should be celebrated,” Kenniff told hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby. Penny placed Neely into a deadly chokehold aboard an uptown F train on May 1 after the homeless man was observed “making threats and scaring passengers,” prosecutors said. “The reality is that there is not a single living, breathing New Yorker — particularly anyone who rides the subways — who can’t relate to exactly the sort of situation that my client and the other passengers on the train were confronted with,” Kenniff said in Friday’s radio interview. “In no way shape or form [did Penny] seek to demean the victim in this case,” he added.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/12/daniel-penny-should-be-celebrated-for-actions-on-subway-lawyer/
May 12, 2023 9:08pm Updated More On: jordan neely In rush to charge Daniel Penny, Bragg again showed he’s on Team Crime CUNY students boo and turn back on Mayor Adams when he brings up cop past at graduation Alvin Bragg didn’t trust a grand jury to do his bidding in Daniel Penny subway chokehold case Lawyers for Jordan Neely’s family say Daniel Penny deserves murder charges, not just manslaughter Daniel Penny, the Marine who placed Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold, “should be celebrated” for jumping into action “for the benefit of others” on the crowded Manhattan subway, his lawyer asserted in a new radio interview. Thomas Kenniff made the remarks Friday night on WABC’s ‘Cats & Cosby’ show hours after Penny, 24, was arraigned on a charge of second-degree manslaughter.
“He didn’t enter the subway seeking to harm anyone. He didn’t attack anyone,” Kenniff said of Penny. “He was really putting himself in harm’s way for the benefit of others. He shouldn’t be pilloried for that. He should be celebrated,” Kenniff told hosts John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby. Penny placed Neely into a deadly chokehold aboard an uptown F train on May 1 after the homeless man was observed “making threats and scaring passengers,” prosecutors said. “The reality is that there is not a single living, breathing New Yorker — particularly anyone who rides the subways — who can’t relate to exactly the sort of situation that my client and the other passengers on the train were confronted with,” Kenniff said in Friday’s radio interview. “In no way shape or form [did Penny] seek to demean the victim in this case,” he added.
https://nypost.com/2023/05/12/daniel-penny-should-be-celebrated-for-actions-on-subway-lawyer/
