Taichiliberal
Shaken, not stirred!
Miss Marple, don't you believe that the fact that Penny was trying to stop Neely from attacking passengers on a commuter train and is now being prosecuted will prevent most people from trying to stop assaults anywhere in the future?
Penny made him stop. Neely died fighting because he was preying on innocent passengers.
There is no crime here. There is a hero here who did get involved.
For your education:
In 1979 Curtis Sliwa started The Guardian Angels....a grass roots organization who patrolled the NYC subways to protect people from muggers, sexual assault, mentally imbalanced folk and the like. They use martial arts, intimidation by numbers and reporting to NYC Transit police. In all their years of successfully counter-acting the aforementioned crime, they NEVER killed anyone.
Anyone with decent, traditional martial arts training knows there are a myriad of ways to take down or neutralize an attacking opponent without going to ground fighting techniques, much less choke them out. Perry wasn't a trained military policeman, he was a Green Beret using combat techniques. Different skill set, different mentality.
Until all the film footage and all the witnesses are cross examined in court, we won't have a true picture of events. Period.

