A Manhattan judge has set Daniel Penny’s trial date for Oct. 8, the next step in an unjust, Kafkaesque ordeal that should have never begun.
It’s a travesty that the charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide against the 25-year-old Marine veteran weren’t dismissed (and that they were brought in the first place), a point made that much more obvious by the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office declining to press charges last week, after Younece Obuad shot DaJuan Robinson in self-defense on the A train.
Penny was acting in defense, too — of himself and other riders — when he put Jordan Neely in a chokehold on a Manhattan F Train on May 1, 2023, after the 30-year-old homeless man had been ranting in an “insanely threatening” way to the point where other passengers were hiding and praying, according to court docs.
Innocent, he did society a favor