Justice for Daniel Penny

Daniel Penny’s nightmare is over.

On the fifth day of deliberations, with Manhattan’s elected progressive Democratic district attorney Alvin Bragg taking desperate measures in his crusade to nail him, the Marine veteran was acquitted of homicide by the jury in the trial over the death of Jordan Neely.

Penny was a subway passenger on the F train in May 2023 when Neely, a deranged criminal and drug addict recently released from Rikers Island after a prison stint for breaking bones in the face of a 67-year-old woman he’d punched, began menacing passengers. As trial witnesses testified, they were frightened as Neely ranted that “someone is going to die today” and that he was “willing to die and go to jail.” Penny courageously intervened, restraining Neely, including applying a choke hold, until police arrived at a station stop and took Neely away.