Last Friday we discussed the killing of a white high school junior in Texas named Austin Metcalf. Metcalf was stabbed through the heart by Karmelo Anthony, a 17-year-old black student who attended a different school. 
According to the arrest warrant, Anthony was in the wrong tent at a track meet, for reasons that aren&#8217;t entirely clear. Metcalf told him to leave; Anthony dared Metcalf to touch him; Metcalf apparently touched Anthony or his backpack; and then Anthony produced a knife from the backpack and killed Metcalf. Afterwards, police say, Anthony threw the murder weapon away. When police asked Anthony what had happened, he admitted that he had stabbed Metcalf, then asked them if his actions could be considered a form of self-defense.
Of course, there hasn&#8217;t yet been a trial in this case. Karmelo Anthony, like everyone else accused of a crime in this country, enjoys the legal presumption of innocence under our Constitution. At the same time, reasonable people can look at these facts and come to one obvious conclusion, which is this: Unless the police and all of the witnesses are engaging in the single most organized conspiracy to frame a criminal defendant that&#8217;s ever been undertaken in the history of this country, for no apparent reason, then there was clearly no justification for Karmelo Anthony to kill Austin Metcalf. There was no reason for him to bring a deadly weapon to a track meet in the first place, much less use that weapon to execute an unarmed teenager, and then attempt to hide evidence. In other words, any defense of Anthony must rely on something other than the facts.
Over the past few days, that kind of defense is exactly what has emerged. Despite the overwhelming evidence in this case, tens of thousands of people have now publicly declared that, in essence, Metcalf had it coming. This sentiment isn&#8217;t based on forensic evidence or new witness testimony or anything like that. Instead, the defense of Anthony is based on the fact that Anthony is black, and Metcalf was white.
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We will go through some of these defenses, below, so you can see the exact arguments I&#8217;m referring to. The important thing to keep in mind, however, is that the identity of the person writing the post doesn&#8217;t matter. What matters are the massive amount of positive responses these posts have received. Each post listed below has received tens of thousands of positive responses, in the forms of replies and &#8220;likes,&#8221; along with millions of views. So even if we&#8217;re talking about professional agitators here, it really doesn&#8217;t matter. The point is that the agitation is working. A significant number of people are responding positively.
Here for example was <a href="https://x.com/tariqnasheed/status/1908338545020018820">a post</a> written by the commentator Tariq Nasheed, who describes himself as a &#8220;foundational black American.&#8221;
<blockquote>A suspected white supremacist named Austin Metcalf (pictured with his twin) allegedly demanded honor student Karmelo Anthony give up his seat—like it was the Jim Crow era. Karmelo defended himself from the alleged threat. The Daniel Penny case set this precedent.</blockquote>
Nasheed <a href="https://x.com/tariqnasheed/status/1908289160038977683">added</a>:
<blockquote>If Kyle Rittenhouse was justified in using lethal self defense&#8230; And Daniel Penny was justified in using lethal self defense&#8230;. Then Karmelo Anthony was justified in using self defense against alleged bullies who instigated an altercation, correct?</blockquote>
Collectively, these two posts received over six million views and tens of thousands of likes. Austin Metcalf, according to this post, was a &#8220;suspected white supremacist&#8221; even though there&#8217;s been no evidence whatsoever to suggest that&#8217;s true. It&#8217;s just completely invented. In this instance, as in pretty much every other instance, the words &#8220;white supremacist&#8221; are really being used as a synonym for &#8220;white.&#8221; The people responding to this post understand that Austin Metcalf wasn&#8217;t a member of some white nationalist group. They don&#8217;t care. They simply despise him because he was white, which is all it takes.
Then Tariq compares this situation to the &#8220;Jim Crow era,&#8221; which is apparently meant to imply that it&#8217;s impossible for black people to be in the wrong place, at any time, for any reason. If you are a white person, then evidently you are not allowed to tell a black person that he&#8217;s not allowed in a particular area. That appears to be the logic here. If you wake up at 2:00am and a random black person is inside your home, and you tell him to leave, then you&#8217;re basically reinventing Jim Crow.
The rest of Nasheed&#8217;s defense makes a half-hearted comparison to the Kyle Rittenhouse and Daniel Penny cases. Nevermind the fact both Rittenhouse and Penny were repeatedly threatened with lethal force before they responded in kind, which is why juries acquitted both men. Also never mind the fact that Tariq Nasheed thinks both Penny and Rittenhouse should be in prison — which means, by his own logic, Anthony should be too.
But in reality, as those cases demonstrated, lethal force is the appropriate response to someone pointing a loaded gun in your face, or to a violent felon who&#8217;s terrorizing a subway car as he yells, &#8220;I&#8217;m going to kill you&#8221; and &#8220;I&#8217;m prepared to go to jail for life.&#8221; On the other hand, lethal force is not the appropriate response to a student touching your backpack during a track meet. The only person who could possibly be confused about this or pretend to be confused is someone who is seeking, as desperately as he possibly can, to justify the murder of a white minor at the hands of a black killer. That is the only explanation for this kind of reasoning, or lack thereof. We are witnessing the endorsement of racial violence, on a very large scale.
To give another example, someone named Talbert Swan, who calls himself a &#8220;bishop,&#8221; posted a <a href="https://www.threads.net/@talbertswan/post/DIHYiXqxbE2/yall-said-17-yr-old-kyle-rittenhouse-was-justified-in-killing-two-people-with-an">similar comparison</a> on social media. Again, it received an overwhelmingly positive response:
<blockquote>Y’all said 17 yr old Kyle Rittenhouse was justified in killing two people with an AR 15 because he felt threatened. 17 yr old Karmelo Anthony was defending himself when he killed Austin Metcalf with a knife and y’all think he deserves to go to prison. I wonder whyTE.</blockquote>
What&#8217;s being conflated here, again, is that Kyle Rittenhouse didn&#8217;t merely &#8220;feel&#8221; threatened. The jury determined, correctly, that Rittenhouse&#8217;s fear was objectively reasonable. It was not a pretext. Rittenhouse did not invent his fear in order to kill anyone. Nor did he kill anyone because he has very little impulse control, or because he grew up in a culture that glorified violence. He killed people because they attempted to kill him first, and any reasonable person could see that. It was quite literally on video. There was no denying it.
The reason these people are making the Rittenhouse comparisons is that they&#8217;re projecting. They want to glorify racial violence, but they don&#8217;t want to make it explicit, at least not yet. So instead, they&#8217;re pretending that white people are already glorifying racial violence. They&#8217;re then framing black-on-white violence as a proportionate response.
Here&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/MikeBaggz/status/1907927941566312508">another post</a>, from someone calling himself &#8220;Mike Baggz.&#8221; It racked up something like seven million views and 30,000 positive responses: 
<blockquote>Whenever white supremacists immediately flood our mentions before the full story is even out, you know something’s up. It turns out, Austin Metcalf was the aggressor, and the Black kid, Karmelo Anthony, was defending himself.</blockquote>
According to this analysis, the person who goes into the wrong tent while armed with a deadly weapon, and then dares someone to touch him, is not in the final analysis the &#8220;aggressor.&#8221; What&#8217;s missing in this analysis is that Metcalf never put Anthony in any fear of his life, reasonable or otherwise. Touching someone&#8217;s backpack at a track meet when they&#8217;re in the wrong tent is not a threat of lethal violence, especially in this context. Therefore, Anthony was not justified in using lethal force as a response. And Anthony probably knew that, which is why he got rid of the murder weapon, and why he asked the police officers if he could possibly have a viable self-defense claim — which is not something you do if you have a viable self-defense claim.
But a lot of people seem intent on ignoring these facts. 
Here&#8217;s <a href="https://x.com/HussleMase/status/1908172510442422722">another post</a> with ten million views and around 80,000 likes: 
<blockquote>The twins didn’t just &#8216;ask him to leave.&#8217; They tried to JUMP him. before attacking him, they tried to take his belongings, BROKE his phone, and STOMPED on it. &#8230; Ask yourself: If two 200+ lb attackers came at YOUR child, what would you expect them to do? Karmelo defended himself against violent aggressors. That is NOT a crime.</blockquote>
None of this is true. Austin Metcalf didn&#8217;t &#8220;jump&#8221; anyone. He didn&#8217;t attempt to steal any belongings, nor did he break anyone&#8217;s phone. All of that information was contained in a fake Facebook post from someone pretending to be the local chief of police. Anyone with access to Google, or who&#8217;s equipped with basic common sense, could have figured that out immediately. But millions of people wanted to believe that this post was true, even though it was obviously fake. And the reason these people wanted to believe this fake information is that, when you get down to it, they would support a black person — any black person — who kills a white person, for any reason. This is the OJ Simpson effect, except Karmelo Anthony isn&#8217;t famous. He has no pre-existing fanbase. This is the purest form of racial resentment. And now it&#8217;s on full display.
We&#8217;re not dealing with an honest disagreement about the facts here. We&#8217;re dealing with people who believe that violence against white people is justified, solely on the basis of their skin color. That is why, as of right now, a GiveSendGo fundraiser for Karmelo Anthony, the man who just stabbed a teenager in the heart and killed him, has raised more than $175,000. Yes, the killer&#8217;s family, with his official GiveSendGo, has raised $175,000. Those are people — actual people, not bots or trolls — giving someone money for killing a white kid.
The <a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/HelpKarmelo">fundraising page</a> complains that it&#8217;s been a &#8220;challenging and difficult time&#8221; for Karmelo Anthony&#8217;s family. It claims, &#8220;the narrative being spread is false, unjust, and harmful.&#8221; A similar fundraiser was taken down by GoFundMe, because raising money for murder suspects isn&#8217;t acceptable under their terms of service. But it&#8217;s apparently fine for GiveSendGo, the supposedly Christian alternative.
The reason this is happening, the reason a killer is being celebrated and even funded by a significant number of Americans, is that everything I said on Friday is true. The culture among young black males in this country glorifies violence. And in particular, it glorifies violence against white people. That&#8217;s why young black males are disproportionately violent, to a degree that&#8217;s almost impossible to believe. Black people are roughly 12 times more likely to kill a white person, and 28 times more likely to violently assault a white person, than the other way around.
This is what happens when the vast majority of black children are born without present fathers. It&#8217;s what happens when black culture is dominated by degeneracy. And it&#8217;s what happens when the worst kinds of people are hailed as heroes of the black community. Now it&#8217;s a kid who stabbed another kid in the heart. In the past it&#8217;s been George Floyd or Michael Brown or any other BLM martyr we might name. If not them, it&#8217;s rappers and athletes, who would be the least objectionable of the bunch, at least in most cases. But ask yourself: when was the last time that a great black man of high moral character, someone who achieved something meaningful, was given the George Floyd or Karmelo Anthony hagiography treatment?
You become what you admire. This is true of people and cultures. When you elevate people like Karmelo Anthony and George Floyd, you become like them. There are great black men and women in the world and throughout history, obviously. Just one modern day example is Ben Carson, one of the world&#8217;s greatest surgeons. His personal story is harrowing and inspiring. But he&#8217;s been cast out of &#8220;black culture.&#8221; Mainstream black culture celebrates George Floyd or Kendrick Lamar far more than it would ever celebrate a man like Carson. Not only are the good, decent, productive black men and women not celebrated they are in fact condemned by the very culture that should be celebrating them.
This is what happens with all of the Left&#8217;s victim groups. When you are a victim group, your heroes must be victims. The qualification to become a hero is not that you achieved something, but that something bad happened to you even if, in reality, you did the bad thing to yourself (as was the case with George Floyd, Karmelo Anthony, Michael Brown, and so on). We see a version of this problem in American culture at large. We tore down the statues of our true historical heroes, and now they&#8217;re being replaced by pop stars and celebrities and other assorted degenerates.
The end result of this trend, which is continuing even though so many Americans reject it, will be that many more people will die. Any country that tolerates racial violence will inevitably descend further and further towards dysfunction and open race warfare. If BLM types can justify the killing of Austin Metcalf, they can justify the murder of any white man, woman or child. That is their goal. That is why they&#8217;re sending money to the family of Karmelo Anthony and comparing him to Kyle Rittenhouse. And it&#8217;s why everyone, whether they&#8217;re white or black, needs to pay very close attention to where they&#8217;re living and what schools they&#8217;re sending their children to. Until this culture changes, and right now there are no signs that it will, the consequences of ignorance are simply too great to ignore.

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The following is an excerpt from the new book “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Children-Left-Behind-Rationalizes-Separation/dp/B0DSJZWMDL/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.mHwt-SB0BE6Z4SuvSL8BpJGq0o4KZKefFX7qCk2QDecQdDECQ5sacSwFhvoqNh0G.3kO-vQO6MHEer2Op5JTvskog7q0WE0RCOw0_toT-nOM&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;qid=1738089124&amp;refinements=p_27%3AAdam+Coleman&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1">The Children We Left Behind: How Western Culture Rationalizes Family Separation &amp; Ignores The Pain Of Child Neglect</a>,” by Adam B. Coleman (Wrong Speak Publishing, April 1, 2025).
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“I don’t care if I die. I don’t care if I go to jail”. 
These were some of the final words spoken by Jordan Neely, a homeless thirty-year-old man who died inside a subway after threatening frightened riders and being subdued in a headlock by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-daniel-penny-found-not-guilty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Penny</a> on May 1, 2023.
Neely had a long 42-arrest history of criminal activity, involving four violent offenses spanning from 2013 to 2021, only to eventually die on the floor of an F train subway car.
While most of the public has focused on his threats before being taken down by Daniel Penny or the racial differences between Neely and Penny, I want to focus on Neely’s origin story.
My interest in sharing Neely’s story is twofold. Objectively, Neely was a troubled man who had a history of terrorizing riders and was riddled with mental health problems. But he wasn’t born that way. No child dreams of being a homeless person on the street. How did Jordan Neely go from an innocent child to dying on the subway? As I hope to illuminate for readers, it all stems from his abusive childhood.
The second reason why I want to share Jordan Neely’s story is more personal. In Jordan, I see something of myself: a child who was abandoned by his father. After my father left me, my mom, and my sister, my entire life was uprooted. By the age of six, I had lived in three states and various towns, residing with multiple family members and spending months in and out of homelessness. My father’s absence and my mother being left to raise me and my sister on her own led me to suffer from depression, low self-esteem, and suicidal ideation. At age eight, I was admitted to a mental hospital.
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Would Jordan’s life have taken a different turn if he had a loving father in his life? Why could he not have been one of the lucky ones, like me, who by the grace of God overcame a traumatic childhood?
Neely grew up in an abusive household with his mother and stepfather. This violence from his stepfather escalated to the point of murdering Jordan Neely’s mother, Christine Neely, by strangulation, subsequently stuffing her body in a suitcase, and dumping her body on the Henry Hudson Highway in Bronx, NY, when Jordan Neely was 14 years old.
In <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/03/subway-chokehold-victim-jordan-neely-spiraled-after-moms-death-aunt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">an interview</a> with The New York Post, Carolyn Neely, Jordan’s Aunt, stated that his mother&#8217;s murder was the pivotal starting point of his mental downfall.
“My sister Christie was murdered in ‘07, and after that, he has never been the same. It had a big impact on him. He developed depression, and it grew and became more serious. He was schizophrenic, PTSD.”
After his mother&#8217;s killing, Jordan bounced around from foster home to foster home for four years, being left behind in New York City’s dysfunctional foster care system.
After Jordan Neely’s death, New York’s PIX 11 News <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iX7lkOZA_g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> Neely’s foster brother, Larry Smith. Larry Smith viewed Jordan Neely as his best friend, big brother, and mentor.
Eventually, both Smith and Neely aged out of the foster care system, leaving them homeless on the streets of New York City. In the early years of their brotherly relationship, Neely would perform Michael Jackson dance routines on subway cars for money to feed themselves.
“He would do the whole Billy Jean [dance routine], and I would sit there and have the one hat that he gave me for Michael Jackson and collect a couple of dollars. He used that because foster parents were abusing us.”
It is Smith&#8217;s final statement that encapsulates the deep desire of every child: “Jordan never wanted money … Jordan wanted a home.”
Every child wants a home, and not just in a physical sense. It’s not enough for a child to have a place of shelter; they also need a place where they know they belong and are safe.
In various articles I’ve read about Jordan Neely in his teenage years, he was described as a quiet child who enjoyed Japanese anime. However, this quiet child was hardened like the concrete streets he’d occasionally sleep on.
There are only so many chances you’ll give the world to hurt you before you acknowledge your hopelessness by outwardly exclaiming, “I don’t care if I die. I don’t care if I go to jail.”
He gave his stepfather a chance, who ultimately murdered his mother. He gave the foster care system a chance, and they abused and abandoned him. If every adult you encounter lets you down, you’d probably go insane too and grow a deep hatred for mankind, including hatred for yourself.
Jordan Neely’s situation isn’t abnormal, and that’s the problem.
The only reason we even know his name is because of a fluke circumstance of being filmed by a journalist. But if he had overdosed alone on a street corner, he would be just another statistic.
Thousands upon thousands of Jordan Neelys all over America are on the street. They are adults now, but they were once children left behind by nearly every adult they encountered.
I once felt all the rage that Jordan felt. I sometimes still do. My father chose himself over me, my sister, and my mother and neglected me until the day he died. Thanks be to God, I made it, but my successes should never be a reason for parents to risk playing Russian Roulette with their children’s lives.
I am also a father now. And as a father, my job has been to raise my child to become greater than myself and to be a healthy and functional member of society. Over the years, I became incredibly conscious of how my actions and lack of actions could turn my son into the man you’d never want to be alone with on the streets at night.
Raising children isn’t just about feeding and housing them. How we treat them and what we teach them directly affects their likelihood of success in the world.
If you fail your children, don’t be surprised when they fail in our society.
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Adam B. Coleman is the author of “<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Children-Left-Behind-Rationalizes-Separation/dp/B0DSJZWMDL/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.mHwt-SB0BE6Z4SuvSL8BpJGq0o4KZKefFX7qCk2QDecQdDECQ5sacSwFhvoqNh0G.3kO-vQO6MHEer2Op5JTvskog7q0WE0RCOw0_toT-nOM&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;qid=1738089124&amp;refinements=p_27%3AAdam+Coleman&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-1">The Children We Left Behind</a>” and founder of Wrong Speak Publishing. Follow him on X: @wrong_speak
This excerpt is published by permission from Wrong Speak Publishing.
The views expressed in this book excerpt are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Marine veteran Daniel Penny landed a position with Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz earlier this week, less than two months after a jury acquitted him in the death of Jordan Neely.
According to a <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/02/04/us-news/daniel-penny-hired-by-andreesen-horowitz-following-acquittal-in-jordan-neelys-death/">report</a> in the New York Post, Penny will be a deal partner on the firm’s American Dynamism team in Manhattan. 
An internal memo obtained by the Free Press <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/exclusive-daniel-penny-hired-at-andreessen-horowitz">quoted</a> firm partner David Ulevitch as stating, “I believe, as I know many of you do, that Daniel acted with courage in a tough situation.”
Penny was acquitted on December 9 of criminally negligent homicide. He was recorded on video subduing Jordan Neely in a chokehold in May 2023 after Neely threatened passengers on a New York City subway. Neely was homeless, with more than 40 prior arrests and a history of mental illness.
Vice President JD Vance <a href="https://x.com/JDVance/status/1886928702396883241">said on X</a> that Penny’s new job was “Incredible news.” Vance and then-President-elect Donald Trump joined Penny at the annual Army-Navy college football game in December, five days after Penny’s acquittal. 
Ulevitch’s memo continued, telling employees that “[Penny] was acquitted of all charges. Beyond that, it has always been our policy to evaluate the entire person and not judge them for the worst moment in their entire life.”
Ulevitch went on to explain Penny’s new role: “He will learn the business of investing and he will work to support our portfolio … We believe in Daniel and are excited to have him as part of our team.”
Penny’s position will involve advancing the firm&#8217;s relationships with the Department of Defense and the company’s other government and defense technology initiatives. The firm’s American Dynamism group also supports startups that address critical infrastructure, public safety, and national security needs.

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Daniel Penny, who was acquitted of causing the death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway, is seeking the dismissal of a civil lawsuit filed by Neely’s father.
Andre Zachery filed <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/12/05/us-news/jordan-neelys-father-sues-daniel-penny-as-nyc-jury-deliberates-verdict-for-subway-chokehold-death/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a lawsuit</a> against Penny in December, shortly before a jury found Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide, demanding “judgment awarding damages in a sum which exceeds the jurisdictional limits of all lower Courts which would otherwise have jurisdiction.” Penny’s attorneys are seeking to get that lawsuit dismissed, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/daniel-penny-demands-dismissal-civil-lawsuit-from-jordan-neely-father.amp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Zachery, who was not a part of Neely’s life, alleged that Penny caused the death of his son and should pay him for it.
&#8220;All injuries or damages sustained by Plaintiff as alleged in the Verified Complaint, if any, were caused in whole or in part by the culpable conduct, negligence, carelessness, and lack of care on the part of Plaintiff, and any recovery against this Defendant must be diminished in proportion to Plaintiff’s relative wrongdoing, fault, misfeasance, malfeasance, failure to exercise due care and/or other culpable conduct,&#8221; Penny’s attorneys wrote in response to the lawsuit, Fox reported.
Penny’s attorneys, Steven Raiser and Thomas Kenniff, also released a statement defending Penny against the charges brought against their client in what they described as the “largest and most resourced” district attorney’s office in America.
&#8220;The result was a full acquittal and a verdict that underscored New Yorkers’ belief in their right to defend themselves and their neighbors from random violence,&#8221; the attorneys told Fox News Digital. &#8220;We are committed to defending this ill-conceived civil action brought by Jordan Neely’s estranged father with the same vigor with which we defended the criminal case.&#8221;
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Penny was found <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-daniel-penny-found-not-guilty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">not guilty</a> on December 9, after the district attorney’s office dropped its second-degree manslaughter charge against him when the jury failed to return a verdict.
Jurors were initially tasked with determining whether Penny “recklessly” caused the death of Neely by using the chokehold – or second-degree manslaughter – or if he was guilty of criminally negligent homicide, a lesser charge that carried a maximum sentence of four years in prison. According to court documents, the lesser charge required the jury to determine Penny failed to recognize Neely’s life was at risk as he held him in the chokehold.
The manslaughter charge was dismissed the Friday before the jury reached its final verdict, and it took them less than an hour to return a not guilty verdict for the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide.

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With the acquittal of Daniel Penny in Manhattan, it&#8217;s clear that Democrats are going to have some difficulty rounding up political prisoners for the next few years. As that trial demonstrated, they can&#8217;t even sell a BLM narrative to a jury full of liberal women (and a guy wearing a COVID mask). People are more skeptical of race hysteria now, across party lines. They understand when they&#8217;re being manipulated. They care more about facts, instead of whatever the corporate press is saying. And that&#8217;s all very bad news for Democrat prosecutors who are looking to collect a scalp.
But this development is obviously small comfort to the many victims of these prosecutors who are still languishing away in prison, after being convicted in show trials to appease the mob. And of course, maybe the single most prominent of those victims is a man named Derek Chauvin. Chauvin was a police officer in Minneapolis who went to work in May of 2020 with the goal of protecting his community from violent felons — people like George Floyd. He&#8217;s been sentenced to more than two decades in prison because Floyd, who had a recent history of overdoses, died in his custody while high on fatal levels of fentanyl.
The issue of &#8220;causation&#8221; was the single most important issue of the trial — that is, the question of whether Chauvin actually killed Floyd. If Chauvin&#8217;s actions weren&#8217;t a &#8220;substantial factor&#8221; in Floyd&#8217;s death, then under Minnesota law, he&#8217;s innocent. That pretty much sums up the entire case.
But after the trial was over, the jury came out and publicly admitted that they didn&#8217;t really care about this issue at all. &#8220;Causation&#8221; just didn&#8217;t matter to them. They gave an interview with CNN where they explained that, in their view, Chauvin&#8217;s actions didn&#8217;t matter at all. Instead, they determined that Chauvin was guilty because of what he didn&#8217;t do. They didn&#8217;t convict him for murdering Floyd. They didn&#8217;t convict him because his actions caused Floyd&#8217;s death. Instead, they convicted him for failing to &#8220;care&#8221; for George Floyd in some unspecified way.
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It&#8217;s an incredible piece of footage. First of all, there&#8217;s no reason for a jury to be looking for a &#8220;light bulb moment&#8221; which allows them to rationalize a guilty verdict — unless they were looking for some pretext to convict Chauvin (which they obviously were). The jury shouldn&#8217;t be trying to find a way to get a conviction. They should be looking at whether the prosecution proved its case beyond a reasonable doubt. And if they find themselves doubting that the prosecution proved its case, they don&#8217;t get to rewrite the law to help the prosecution out.
But in this case, that&#8217;s exactly what the jury did. They ultimately decided to hold Chauvin accountable for things he didn&#8217;t do. He didn&#8217;t respond compassionately enough to George Floyd&#8217;s overdose, or live up to the police department&#8217;s motto, I guess — even though none of those things, even if they were true, would make Chauvin a murderer. The new rule, according to this jury, is that police officers have an obligation to perform CPR on violent suspects the moment they say they can&#8217;t breathe — even though Floyd was claiming that he couldn&#8217;t breathe just a few minutes earlier, when he was resisting arrest and struggling with the officers in the back of a patrol car. And if police officers don&#8217;t administer CPR, and someone dies, then we&#8217;ll just assume that the officer killed them. We&#8217;ll just make that leap of logic, because why not?
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But just because the jury didn&#8217;t consider the issue of causation to be relevant, that doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s not relevant. From a legal perspective, on appeal, it&#8217;s still very important. And that&#8217;s why a federal judge in Minnesota named Paul Magnuson, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan, has just issued a ruling that could ultimately lead to a new trial in this case. This is a decision that&#8217;s worth dissecting at length, because it highlights what a farce the trial of Derek Chauvin really was. No matter how corrupt you think this trial was, it was actually a lot worse than that.
The decision came in response to a motion filed by Chauvin&#8217;s new lawyer in federal court. Chauvin&#8217;s legal team is seeking to have his conviction overturned, in part, because his previous lawyer was ineffective — to the point that he denied Chauvin his constitutional right to a fair trial. There are other objections too — including that many of the jurors said they felt threatened by the mob, so Chauvin couldn&#8217;t get a fair trial.  
But there are two central claims in the motion arguing that Chauvin received &#8220;ineffective assistance of counsel.&#8221; The first is that Chauvin&#8217;s lawyer, during the trial, failed to tell Chauvin that a doctor had determined that George Floyd died due to acute heart failure, resulting in pulmonary edema and death. There were indications that Floyd had a heart tumor that could&#8217;ve caused sudden cardiac death, and Chauvin was never told about it — nor was it brought up at trial. 
The second claim is that Chauvin&#8217;s lawyer should have listened to the doctor, and ordered tests on samples that were preserved from George Floyd&#8217;s body. Those tests could have determined whether Floyd died of a type of myocarditis, or some other heart ailment. And now, several years later, the federal judge has finally allowed Chauvin&#8217;s new legal team to conduct those tests. Depending on what they show, they could completely undermine the prosecution&#8217;s argument that Chauvin caused the death of George Floyd. And that, in turn, could lead to the conviction being thrown out — and potentially a new trial, if prosecutors decide to pursue it.
One of the reasons this is such an important ruling is that, in Chauvin&#8217;s trial, there was clear evidence that the prosecution lied about the concentration of fentanyl in George Floyd&#8217;s system when he died. And if this case is tried again, this is going to be a major issue. You might remember that, in the initial autopsy report, the medical examiner determined that Floyd had lethal levels of fentanyl in his system. He said that there were no physical signs of strangulation, and that it looked like a textbook overdose. But shortly afterwards, his assessment changed.
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The threats and the political pressure, we&#8217;re supposed to conclude, didn&#8217;t influence the medical examiner. We&#8217;re supposed to pretend that he somehow wasn&#8217;t bothered by the mob that was threatening to destroy the entire city of Minneapolis when he changed his determination about the cause of George Floyd&#8217;s death.
We&#8217;re also supposed to think that Democrats in Minneapolis didn&#8217;t exert any political pressure at all. But as the reporter Liz Collin found, there was even more pressure on the medical examiner than many people realize. 
One <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GVdBFkjXkAAb3TA?format=jpg&amp;name=medium" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internal memo</a> from a prosecuting attorney in Minneapolis at the time says that on May 26, 2020, a team of six FBI agents met with medical examiner Andrew Baker to discuss his preliminary findings. And then after this meeting, he changed his conclusions. He decides that Floyd&#8217;s death was a homicide caused by neck compression — and that fentanyl wasn&#8217;t the cause.
A new trial would offer Chauvin&#8217;s new defense team an opportunity to pick this claim apart. This is an opportunity that Chauvin&#8217;s first legal team missed completely, during the first trial. Outside of a few accounts on social media — people like &#8220;Data Hazard&#8221; for example — no one has talked about this. But it&#8217;s an incredible oversight by the defense team, and a remarkable act of corruption by the prosecution. And if anything completely blows apart the case against Derek Chauvin, it&#8217;s this.
Here&#8217;s the moment in the trial that I&#8217;m talking about. This is maybe the single most important testimony in the whole case. The prosecution is questioning a forensic toxicologist about the levels of fentanyl in Floyd&#8217;s blood.
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It&#8217;s a lot to process, with the graphs and the numbers flying around. But the basic idea is that the expert is telling the jury that they collected post-mortem blood samples from George Floyd, meaning the samples were taken after Floyd died. And they compared these samples to other overdose victims, and DUI suspects, after their deaths. And Floyd&#8217;s levels of fentanyl were well below both of those groups, at the post-mortem stage. The conclusion was that Floyd didn&#8217;t overdose on fentanyl.
The fundamental problem here is that Floyd&#8217;s samples, according to the medical examiner&#8217;s records, were not actually conducted post-mortem, or &#8220;after death.&#8221; They&#8217;re comparing Floyd&#8217;s pre-death samples with other people&#8217;s post-death samples.
To restate: There were samples of blood collected from George Floyd before he died in the hospital, according to the government&#8217;s own documents. He wasn&#8217;t actually pronounced dead until an hour after this incident with Derek Chauvin, when he was in the hospital. And while he was in the hospital, his blood was drawn. As the judge put it in his ruling this week, quote, &#8220;the autopsy report shows that ante-mortem blood was collected.&#8221;  And the prosecutors&#8217; own statements from 2020 confirm that. Another <a href="https://x.com/MrAndyNgo/status/1298403284416249856" target="_blank" rel="noopener">internal memo</a> shows what they said at the time. 
 &#8220;Dr. Andrew Baker &#8230; said he had the final toxicology results from Mr. George Floyd&#8217;s samples &#8230; Those samples are from Mr. Floyd&#8217;s hospital admission and were not acquired at autopsy. [Baker] said that these samples are better for determining actual blood toxicity than samples taken at autopsy,&#8221; the memo said. &#8220;Samples taken at autopsy may have undergone &#8216;post mortem distribution.'&#8221; 
So here we have &#8220;ante-mortem&#8221; samples, or pre-death samples of Floyd&#8217;s blood. That means they were taken before the effects of Floyd&#8217;s death could impact the samples.
And the <a href="https://x.com/fentasyl/status/1825656873019650417" target="_blank" rel="noopener">autopsy report</a> also confirms that Floyd&#8217;s samples are &#8220;ante-mortem.&#8221; 
It reads, &#8220;testing performed on antemortem blood specimens collected 5/25/20 at 9:00 p.m. &#8230; Fentanyl 11 nanograms per milliliter.&#8221; This couldn&#8217;t be any more clear. These are pre-mortem samples, according to the prosecution&#8217;s own records.
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Now, you might be asking what&#8217;s the big deal — who cares if Floyd&#8217;s blood was collected before his death, or after it? As it turns out, the distinction is extremely significant. After death, fentanyl concentrations in the bodies of overdose victims are dramatically higher than they are before death. It&#8217;s a difference of up to 900% within eight hours of death. That&#8217;s because when you die, blood stops pumping, so blood concentrations change.
So what the prosecution did, in effect, was compare Floyd&#8217;s fentanyl levels before this massive spike with the fentanyl levels of overdose victims after this massive spike. Of course, Floyd&#8217;s levels were lower. And based on this apples-to-oranges comparison, the prosecutors convinced the jury that Floyd&#8217;s death had nothing to do with fentanyl. 
In other words, when he arrived at the hospital Floyd had a level of fentanyl in his blood that was consistent with an overdose victim, when his pre-mortem blood was tested. In fact, Floyd&#8217;s levels of fentanyl were more than two times the average lethal level that you see in fentanyl overdoses. But the prosecution hid this fact from the jury, by presenting these blood samples as &#8220;post-mortem.&#8221; They compared Floyd&#8217;s numbers with other people who had been dead for several hours. 
It&#8217;s impossible to overstate the significance of this deception. This was the crux of the prosecution&#8217;s entire argument. They hit it again and again, including during closing arguments. 
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Again, he&#8217;s showing the chart with the false information, presenting the numbers as post-mortem. And then at the end of that clip, the prosecutor claims that Floyd had built up a &#8220;tolerance&#8221; to fentanyl — implying that because he had overdosed before, his body could handle a high concentration of the drug.
But that was never proven at trial, either. We know that George Floyd had used fentanyl several times before. He even overdosed just months before his death, resulting in his hospitalization. But that&#8217;s very different from saying that Floyd was somehow immune to the fatal effects of a fentanyl overdose, which was never demonstrated at trial because it&#8217;s impossible. 
The other major problem here is that the prosecution&#8217;s witness testified that Floyd died on the street, which seems incompatible with the idea that pre-death blood samples were later collected in the hospital
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This whole trial was full of incidents like this. There was the fact that Floyd&#8217;s suspected drug dealer wasn&#8217;t prosecuted, which allowed him to take the Fifth and avoid testifying about the drugs in Floyd&#8217;s possession. There was the prosecuting attorney who was allegedly <a href="https://alphanews.org/appeals-court-revises-lawsuit-of-prosecutor-who-objected-to-charging-decisions-in-george-floyd-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">threatened</a> with professional consequences for refusing to add charges against Chauvin. There was testimony from Andrew Baker, who admitted under cross-examination that Chauvin&#8217;s knee did not cut off Floyd&#8217;s airway. There was that <a href="https://x.com/gregg_re/status/1715582463915733334" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> from the judge in the case, saying every case is about &#8220;racial justice.&#8221; There was the fact that the prosecution tried to hide the tape of George Floyd saying &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe,&#8221; when he was still in the squad car — and Chauvin&#8217;s knee was nowhere near his neck.
In 2024, there would be a chance that a jury would see through all of this corruption, and vote to acquit Derek Chauvin. But in 2021, Chauvin was never going to receive a fair trial. The threat of violence by BLM was too real. Propaganda from corporate media was still believable to millions of Americans, in part because all social media was censored. And Democrats had far too much political power. 
None of that&#8217;s true anymore. That&#8217;s why Daniel Penny was just acquitted. And it&#8217;s why, if he&#8217;s granted the new trial he clearly deserves, Derek Chauvin will be acquitted too.

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President-elect Donald Trump attended the 125th Army-Navy football game on Saturday, marking the fifth time Trump has made it to the face-off.
Trump was accompanied by a host of conservative figures, including incoming Vice President JD Vance, Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, nominee for Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Florida Rep. Mike Waltz, who&#8217;s been selected by Trump to be a national security adviser; Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard, billionaire Elon Musk, subway hero Daniel Penny, among others.
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Will be going to the Army/Navy Game tomorrow to root on these fantastic young men. Should be a great game. See you there! DJT
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1867819780809666804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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When Trump arrived in the presidential suite, he was greeted with cheers and chants of &#8220;U-S-A.&#8221;
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President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> arrives at Northwest Stadium 🇺🇸🏈 <a href="https://t.co/rVqLLT2A9i">pic.twitter.com/rVqLLT2A9i</a>
— Margo Martin (@margomartin) <a href="https://twitter.com/margomartin/status/1868024822036623490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
Trump saluted during the playing of our national anthem.
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WATCH: President Donald J. Trump salutes as the National Anthem is performed at the <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmyNavyGame?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ArmyNavyGame</a>.
GOD BLESS OUR MILITARY! <a href="https://t.co/NAcYXKE4IY">pic.twitter.com/NAcYXKE4IY</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1868029497095930162?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
Waltz, Gabbard, and Hegseth said they were rooting for Army before the game. &#8220;We love our Navy — except today,&#8221; they said. &#8220;Go Army, beat Navy.&#8221;
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— Rep. Mike Waltz (@michaelgwaltz) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgwaltz/status/1868022853850865860?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
This past week, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daniel-penny-to-attend-army-navy-game-as-jd-vances-guest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vice President-elect JD Vance invited subway hero Daniel Penny</a> to attend the game, as highlighted by The Daily Wire.
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“Daniel’s a good guy, and New York’s mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone,” Vance wrote on X. “I’m grateful he accepted my invitation and hope he’s able to have fun and appreciate how much his fellow citizens admire his courage.”
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Daniel’s a good guy, and New York’s mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone.
I’m grateful he accepted my invitation and hope he’s able to have fun and appreciate how much his fellow citizens admire his courage. <a href="https://t.co/b4bY0G0EM3">https://t.co/b4bY0G0EM3</a>
— JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1867574373806215465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
Penny accepted the invitation and was spotted with Vance in the presidential suite.
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SPOTTED: American Hero Daniel Penny joins VP-elect <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a> at the <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmyNavyGame?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ArmyNavyGame</a>.
President Trump is en route. <a href="https://t.co/bigGt8xyBj">pic.twitter.com/bigGt8xyBj</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1868021739873304684?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Daniel Penny joined President Donald J. Trump and VP-elect JD Vance at the <a href="https://twitter.com/ArmyNavyGame?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ArmyNavyGame</a> today in Landover, Maryland. <a href="https://t.co/RCpxDQqcQn">pic.twitter.com/RCpxDQqcQn</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1868059241866838139?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 14, 2024</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daniel-penny-to-attend-army-navy-game-as-jd-vances-guest" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Penny To Attend Army-Navy Game As JD Vance’s Guest</a>

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Vice President-elect JD Vance invited subway hero Daniel Penny to attend this weekend’s Army-Navy football game – and Penny accepted.
Penny, who was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide on Monday, will attend the game as Vance’s special guest and watch alongside Vance and President-elect Donald Trump from Trump’s private suite.
“Daniel’s a good guy, and New York’s mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone,” Vance wrote on X. “I’m grateful he accepted my invitation and hope he’s able to have fun and appreciate how much his fellow citizens admire his courage.”
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Daniel’s a good guy, and New York’s mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone.
I’m grateful he accepted my invitation and hope he’s able to have fun and appreciate how much his fellow citizens admire his courage. <a href="https://t.co/b4bY0G0EM3">https://t.co/b4bY0G0EM3</a>
— JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1867574373806215465?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The invitation was <a href="https://www.notus.org/trump-transition/daniel-penny-jd-vance-football" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first reported</a> by Reese Gorman, a journalist at the non-profit news outlet NOTUS.
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New: VP-Elect JD Vance has invited Daniel Penny to be his personal guest at the Army-Navy game this weekend, per source familiar.
They will be joining President Trump in his suite at the game.
— Reese Gorman (@reesejgorman) <a href="https://twitter.com/reesejgorman/status/1867558134220231068?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Penny, a 26-year-old Marine veteran, was charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after he put homeless man Jordan Neely in a chokehold last year. Neely had been threatening to kill passengers on the New York City subway when Penny placed him in a chokehold to restrain him until police arrived.
Neely still had a pulse when police arrived but soon died, and prosecutors said Penny was responsible. At trial, the New York medical examiner testified that Penny’s chokehold caused Neely’s death, even though high amounts of drugs were found in Neely’s system. A forensic pathologist who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chokehold-did-not-kill-jordan-neely-forensic-expert-testifies-in-daniel-pennys-defense" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> for the defense, however, said that Neely died due to the drugs, his sickle cell trait, and the struggle between him and other passengers. An expert called by the defense also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jordan-neely-claimed-to-hear-tupac-and-devil-was-hospitalized-a-dozen-times-for-psychotic-episodes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">testified</a> that Neely had been hospitalized more than a dozen times for psychotic episodes and claimed to hear voices.
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For its final witness, the defense called Brian Kemef, who works for the court clerk’s office. Kemef testified that Neely had an active warrant for his arrest relating to an alleged assault in 2021. Neely also had a history of violence, including other assaults on the subway, Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/daniel-penny-trial-defense-witness-who-claimed-chokehold-didnt-kill-jordan-neely-returns-stand" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Neely had been arrested more than 40 times.
Following the trial, which involved the prosecution repeatedly referring to Penny as “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daniel-penny-repeatedly-referred-to-as-the-white-man-by-prosecution" target="_blank" rel="noopener">the white man</a>,” jurors told the judge that they were deadlocked over the manslaughter charge, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jury-in-daniel-penny-trial-says-theyre-deadlocked-over-manslaughter-charge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time. Judge Maxwell Wiley initially told the jury to return to deliberations and find a unanimous decision, but jurors again said they couldn’t. At that point, the judge and Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran discussed the possibility of dropping the manslaughter charge and allowing the jury to deliberate on the lesser charge in an effort <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-why-the-state-dropped-top-charge-in-daniel-penny-case-and-why-defense-is-calling-foul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to find a guilty verdict</a>.
When the jury returned after the weekend, it took less than an hour to return a not guilty verdict for the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide.

Daniel Penny To Attend Army-Navy Game As JD Vance’s Guest

Daniel Penny To Attend Army-Navy Game After Invitation From JD Vance

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CNN Republican commentator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/scott-jennings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Jennings</a> got into a brief dust-up with guest host Audie Cornish on Tuesday, after she implied that her compassion for Jordan Neely was rooted in her Christianity rather than her political beliefs.
The conversation came about in reaction to Monday&#8217;s not guilty verdict in the New York-based case against Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny, who subdued a violent and threatening Neely using a choke hold. Though Neely was alive when police first arrived on the scene, he later died, and Penny was charged in relation to his death.
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GOP strategist <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a> didn&#39;t hold back when Audie Cornish invoked religion to call Jordan Neely a victim. <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/ZCOC7QuBot">pic.twitter.com/ZCOC7QuBot</a>
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The discussion began with guest Geraldo Rivera, who argued that the case against Penny had been political from the start.
Cornish interrupted him, asking what he would say &#8220;to the parents of a victim who dies in this circumstance,&#8221; suggesting that Neely — who, by multiple accounts, had been threatening other subway passengers and behaving erratically before Penny and at least one other passenger stepped in to stop him.
&#8220;You keep referring to Neely as the victim,&#8221; Jennings said then, adding, &#8220;I think Penny is the victim in this case, and I think the people on the train are the victims.&#8221;
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&#8220;I have a tendency to call the people who die a victim,&#8221; Cornish interjected. &#8220;We have different ideas about that. But to my mind, someone lost a child and I&#8217;m always going to feel for that person — that&#8217;s just how I&#8217;m built, it&#8217;s like a Christian thing. But the reason why I&#8217;m asking —&#8221;
&#8220;Are you saying I&#8217;m not a Christian?&#8221; Jennings pushed back. &#8220;Is that your assertion?&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not at all,&#8221; Cornish back-pedaled. &#8220;I just want to make sure that you understand it&#8217;s a values-based comment, not a political one.&#8221;
Jennings pushed back again: &#8220;Are you saying I don&#8217;t have any values?&#8221;
The rest of the panel jumped in to defend Cornish, telling Jennings that was not what she meant.
&#8220;He needs a clip for the internet,&#8221; Cornish claimed, turning to smile directly at the camera.
Rivera rounded out the discussion, noting that it was important to remember that everyone has family, but that Neely being someone&#8217;s son did not make him an innocent in the situation at hand.

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/naacp" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NAACP</a> attempted to use Marine veteran Daniel Penny&#8217;s acquittal to stir racial unrest on X, and immediately got hit with a community note laying out several key points explaining why race had absolutely no bearing on that case.
Penny was acquitted on Monday in the death of Jordan Neely, a black man who had a relatively impressive rap sheet before he began behaving erratically and threatening people on a New York City subway. Penny stepped in to stop him, briefly placing Neely in a choke hold — and while he died later, Neely was alive when police arrived on the scene.
The NAACP shared a CNN report on the acquittal and added the following commentary: &#8220;The acquittal of Daniel Penny in the death of Jordan Neely has effectively given license for vigilante justice to be waged on the Black community without consequence. It&#8217;s a painful reminder of the inequities in our justice system. Jordan deserved compassion. Instead, he was met with violence. We stand with his family in calling for accountability.&#8221;
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The acquittal of Daniel Penny in the death of Jordan Neely has effectively given license for vigilante justice to be waged on the Black community without consequence.
It&#39;s a painful reminder of the inequities in our justice system. Jordan deserved compassion. Instead, he was met… <a href="https://t.co/JOdxjZJXBi">https://t.co/JOdxjZJXBi</a>
&mdash; NAACP (@NAACP) <a href="https://twitter.com/NAACP/status/1866177083485073754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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The response from Community Notes was as thorough as it was quick:
&#8220;Daniel Penny did not act alone in defending himself and others from Neely. A black man can be clearly seen assisting Penny to subdue Neely. A black woman testified in defense of Penny. There is no evidence that Penny was motivated by race,&#8221; the note read — and included video showing proof that at least one black man had aided Penny in restraining Neely.
&#8220;It should be noted that another black man attempted to restrain Jordan Neely,&#8221; the video was captioned. &#8220;This event was not racial nor was the verdict. If you wanted to show compassion to Mr. Neely it should&#8217;ve [come] during the 100+ prior times he was arrested. He was a danger to his community. Just a fact.&#8221;
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It should be noted that another black man attempted to restrain Jordan Neely
This event was not racial nor was the verdict. If you wanted to show compassion to Mr. Neely it should&#39;ve came during the 100+ prior times he was arrested. He was a danger to his community. Just a fact. <a href="https://t.co/zqlkTHl1GD">pic.twitter.com/zqlkTHl1GD</a>
&mdash; Clint Russell (@LibertyLockPod) <a href="https://twitter.com/LibertyLockPod/status/1866195560681583005?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Sage Steele also responded to the NAACP, adding, &#8220;Stop. Please read/stop ignoring the facts of the case. Not only is your claim of racism inaccurate, it’s divisive, and it causes the @NAACP to lose even more credibility, which affects those in need when racism is actually taking place.&#8221;
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Stop. Please read/stop ignoring the facts of the case. Not only is your claim of racism inaccurate, it’s divisive, and it causes the <a href="https://twitter.com/NAACP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NAACP</a> to lose even more credibility, which affects those in need when racism is actually taking place. <a href="https://t.co/db2JNNN0lF">https://t.co/db2JNNN0lF</a>
&mdash; Sage Steele (@sagesteele) <a href="https://twitter.com/sagesteele/status/1866207071966015669?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Despite the traumatic ordeal <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-speaks-out-patrons-celebrate-daniel-penny-at-nyc-bar-after-acquittal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Penny</a> has endured at the hands of Democrat <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-why-the-state-dropped-top-charge-in-daniel-penny-case-and-why-defense-is-calling-foul" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg</a>, the U.S. Marine veteran says he has no regrets about stepping in to help save others on the New York City subway.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-daniel-penny-found-not-guilty" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Penny was acquitted</a> on Monday of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely, a troubled man with mental health issues and a lengthy rap sheet who allegedly threatened people on the F Train.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not a confrontational person,&#8221; Penny told Fox News co-host Jeanine Pirro, a former district attorney. &#8220;This type of thing is very uncomfortable &#8212; all this attention and limelight is very uncomfortable, and I would prefer without it. I don&#8217;t want any type of attention or praise, and I still don&#8217;t.&#8221;
However, Penny said he knew he had to step in to help protect others on the subway after Neely&#8217;s alleged threats.
&#8220;The guilt I would have felt if someone did get hurt, if he [Neely] did do what he was threatening to do, I would never be able to live with myself,&#8221; the 26-year-old explained. &#8220;I&#8217;ll take a million court appearances and people calling me names and people hating me just to keep one of those people from getting hurt or killed.&#8221;
Penny also told Pirro that there were politics involved in the case, alluding to DA Alvin Bragg. Notably, Bragg filed charges against Penny 10 days after the incident, seemingly in response to racial protests on the subway. Many viewed the indictment as a political move, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/givesendgo-campaign-raises-more-than-2-million-for-daniel-penny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">offered financial support and prayers for Penny</a>.
The full interview with Penny will air Wednesday on Fox Nation.
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JUST IN: Daniel Penny says he has zero regrets, says he couldn&#8217;t live with the guilt if someone was hurt on the subway by Jordan Neely.
Penny is an even better person than I thought.
The Marine said he would do a million court appearances if it meant saving someone on the… <a href="https://t.co/swNcYWXGpN">pic.twitter.com/swNcYWXGpN</a>
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) <a href="https://twitter.com/CollinRugg/status/1866608217503175008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
Penny is not in the clear yet. Last week, Neely&#8217;s father, Andre Zachery, filed a civil lawsuit at the New York Supreme Court accusing Penny of assault, battery, and causing his son’s death through “negligence, carelessness and recklessness.” The suit does not specify any specific amount of money. 
Alternatively, Arizona Rep. Eli Crane (R) is planning to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/daniel-penny-tapped-congressional-gold-medal-house-gop-lawmaker">introduce</a> a resolution to give Penny the Congressional Gold Medal for his actions on the subway protecting fellow riders.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-speaks-out-patrons-celebrate-daniel-penny-at-nyc-bar-after-acquittal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Attorney Speaks Out, Patrons Celebrate Daniel Penny At NYC Bar After Acquittal</a>

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The hosts of ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View,&#8221; for the most part, were less than thrilled that a New York jury acquitted Marine veteran Daniel Penny on Monday in the death of Jordan Neely — who boasted an impressive rap sheet, and had been verbally threatening people on the subway before Penny stepped in.
Cohost Whoopi Goldberg began by arguing that Penny was somehow out of line when he went to a bar in Manhattan to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/attorney-speaks-out-patrons-celebrate-daniel-penny-at-nyc-bar-after-acquittal">celebrate his acquittal</a>. She added that she believed the overall outcome of the case was proof that the justice system had failed.
“He celebrated the verdict with his lawyer while Neely’s family was mourning the loss,” she said.
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Whoopi says seeing Penny &quot;celebrate in a bar made me feel uncomfortable.&quot; Hey, Whoopi. The people on that subway car certainly felt uncomfortable when Neely was threating to harm them. <a href="https://t.co/EVcBedDudJ">pic.twitter.com/EVcBedDudJ</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1866524255103361358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Goldberg went on to say that she was bothered by the fact that the Marine veteran had chosen to toast his freedom at a bar: “I don’t know that seeing them celebrating in a bar made me comfortable.”
She then addressed the verdict itself, arguing that it was a “failure of the court” that Penny was not convicted. She said that Neely’s behavior could have stemmed from his mother’s murder and argued that everyone — from the hospitals to the courts — had failed him.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin says the &quot;villain&quot; in the story is not Penny but rather &quot;the city of New York who repeatedly fails people who could be a danger to themselves and others.&quot; &quot;I have been on the subway and have felt unsafe,&quot; she says, noting staffers for the show felt the same. <a href="https://t.co/Y5IoAoVOdK">pic.twitter.com/Y5IoAoVOdK</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1866526463714799842?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back a little bit, saying that she did not believe Penny was the “villain.” Instead, she blamed the city of New York for failing to take steps to keep people safer on the subway.
When cohost Joy Behar weighed in, she claimed Penny had held Neely in a choke too long and should have known better. She also suggested that the whole situation could have been avoided if people had simply sat on Neely instead.
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Sunny Hostin claims Neely wasn&#39;t a danger to anyone because he had not yet &quot;put his hands on anyone on this occasion&quot; and she falsely claims &quot;he didn&#39;t approach anyone in a threatening manner.&quot; &quot;Where is our compassion as a society?&quot; she condescendingly lectured. <a href="https://t.co/kC2mB9qeNc">pic.twitter.com/kC2mB9qeNc</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1866528971954794870?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 10, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Cohost Sunny Hostin ran defense for Neely as well, claiming that there was no cause for Penny to act because Neely had not “put his hands on anyone on this occasion” and “didn’t approach anyone in a threatening manner.”
“Where is our compassion as a society?” she demanded.

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‘The View’ Hosts Have Collective Tantrum Over Penny Verdict: ‘Where Is Our Compassion?’

'The View' Hosts Have Collective Tantrum Over Penny Verdict: 'Where Is Our Compassion?'

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