<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> will soon install body scanners at several busy subway stations meant to check for people carrying guns.
Mayor Eric Adams <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/office-of-the-mayor/news/233-24/mayor-adams-nypd-commissioner-caban-pilot-new-technology-additional-clinicians-be#/0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> a pilot program for the scanners at a news conference on Thursday at the Fulton Street subway station in Lower Manhattan.
“This is our Sputnik moment,” Adams <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/nypd-to-test-scanners-with-ai-tech-to-crack-down-on-guns-in-nyc-subway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. “Like when Kennedy said we’re going to put a man on the moon. &#8230; Let’s bring on the scanners.”
The event included a demonstration of how the scanners work. The scanners appeared to flag a man carrying a loaded gun, but not a man with a backpack full of electronics.
However, subway riders will not be required to pass through the machines.
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NEW: The NYPD is gearing up to pilot metal detectors with artificial intelligence in the subways to keep guns out.
“This is our Sputnik moment. Like when Kennedy said we’re going to put a man on the moon,” Mayor Adams said just now. <a href="https://t.co/bZ7K5xtgE8">pic.twitter.com/bZ7K5xtgE8</a>
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Body scanners coming to the ⁦<a href="https://twitter.com/NYCTSubway?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NYCTSubway</a>⁩ system. Details to come. <a href="https://t.co/hNUhHNdX18">pic.twitter.com/hNUhHNdX18</a>
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A demonstration of the body scanners that are coming — in as soon as 90 days — to the New York City subways. <a href="https://t.co/B9zdjjGpqZ">pic.twitter.com/B9zdjjGpqZ</a>
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The new scanners will not be implemented for several months, however.
During a legally mandated 90-day waiting period, the NYPD will look for vendors of weapons detection technology. The public will be able to comment on the scanner program for the first 45 days of the waiting period.
The city has not said which subway stations will get scanners as part of the pilot program. Police are expected to monitor the machines to see if the program should be expanded.
&#8220;We are taking the next step forward in our ongoing efforts to make our subways even safer and ensure New Yorkers feel safer in the transit system,&#8221; Adams said Thursday.
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The new scanners come amid a sharp increase in gun violence in the subway. Four subway killings have happened so far this year, just under the five that occurred over all of last year.
The NYPD says cops have seized 19 illegal guns in the subway so far this year, up from nine by this point last year.
Transit crime overall is up 4.4% so far this year compared to last year, <a class="zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE " href="https://compstat.nypdonline.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-testid="prism-linkbase">according</a> to NYPD data.
Earlier this month, Governor Kathy Hochul (D) deployed 750 National Guard soldiers into he subway system to check riders&#8217; bags. Last month, the NYPD started sending another 1,000 officers into the subway system each day.
Nevertheless, the city&#8217;s announcement of new body scanners was met with criticism online.
&#8220;TSA-ifying the subway is not going to fix anything,&#8221; one X user <a href="https://twitter.com/kristenmag/status/1773409450826826116" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.
&#8220;Who will man this? A police officer? And how about when it does beep will there be enough police there to tackle the person if they get out of control? Yeah it’s all well and good to hear the beeping but then what do you do after?&#8221; another user <a href="https://twitter.com/miriam_riviera/status/1773407712015008248" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a>.

New York City Subway Pushing Death Puts Spotlight On Commuter Safety

NYC Putting Body Scanners In Subway, Mayor Calls It ‘Sputnik Moment’

NYC Putting Body Scanners In Subway, Mayor Calls It 'Sputnik Moment'

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The lawyer representing <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-refuses-to-dismiss-subway-death-case-against-daniel-penny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Penny</a> voiced his frustration after New York City prosecutors said they <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-subway-rider-wont-be-charged-after-allegedly-shooting-aggressive-man-in-self-defense" target="_blank" rel="noopener">will not seek charges</a> for a man who they said acted in &#8220;self-defense&#8221; when he allegedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/man-shot-in-head-on-nyc-subway-video-shows-passengers-scramble-to-get-away-moments-before-shooting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot an aggressive subway rider</a> earlier this week.
Thomas Kenniff <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/video/6349026055112" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News host Jesse Waters on Friday that he was &#8220;happy&#8221; to see that Younece Obuad, the man identified as the subway shooter, was not charged for defending himself from 36-year-old Dajuan Robinson. Penny&#8217;s lawyer, however, added that it&#8217;s &#8220;absolutely frustrating&#8221; to see his client charged while Penny was also acting to defend himself and others on the subway.
Penny, a Marine veteran, was arrested and charged last year with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after he restrained Jordan Neely, a homeless man who was allegedly threatening passengers on a subway car. Neely died following the incident.
&#8220;What&#8217;s interesting, Jesse, having watched that video, so much of what my client encountered last May on the subway when he was coming back from college and Jordan Neely entered the subway car &#8230; so much of it began in a similar way we see this video beginning,&#8221; Kenniff said.
&#8220;You really get an appreciation of how my client, Daniel Penny, handled this situation,&#8221; Kenniff added. &#8220;He went up behind Jordan Neely and used, not a chokehold, but a restraint move to take him down to the ground. It&#8217;s uncontested by the eyewitnesses who were on that subway car that Danny went down and took the fall and brought Jordan Neely down on top of him and restrained him with the intent of waiting until police arrived.&#8221;
&#8220;If you approach it a different way as we saw in the video you just showed and you square off with someone, you don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re armed &#8230; and the situation can devolve into exactly what we saw on that video,&#8221; Penny&#8217;s lawyer said.
Robinson was shot on Thursday after getting into a verbal spat and then a fistfight with Obuad, the alleged shooter. Video footage of the incident showed Robinson yelling at the other man, “I’ll beat you up!” before getting in his face and saying, “F*** your race. F*** your kind. F*** you.”
Shortly after the two men got into the verbal tussle, they squared up, causing subway passengers around them to move to a different area of the train. “There’s babies on here!” one woman shouted as the men began to fight. Robinson eventually pushed the other man down onto a seat and punched him several times before a woman attempted to stop him from delivering any more blows.
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The fight was briefly broken up when another man, along with the woman, stepped in between the two men. The video showed blood on the back of the 36-year-old Robinson, who asked if the other man had stabbed him. Robinson continued to move toward the other man and eventually pulled out a handgun, causing passengers to scramble toward the other end of the train with some people screaming, “Get down! Get down!” and “Let me out!”
Multiple gunshots then rang out, but the video doesn’t show the shooting as the person recording runs off the train when it comes to a stop. Police said the 32-year-old man wrestled the Ruger .380-caliber firearm away from Robinson before shooting him four times.
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Daniel Penny

Daniel Penny’s Lawyer Addresses Similarities Between His Client’s Case And NYC Subway Shooting: ‘It’s Absolutely Frustrating’

Daniel Penny's Lawyer Addresses Similarities Between His Client's Case And NYC Subway Shooting: 'It's Absolutely Frustrating'

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A 36-year-old man is in critical condition after being shot in the head on a New York City subway when a fight broke out between him and a 32-year-old man on Thursday.
The incident, which appeared to begin when the 36-year-old black man began berating the 32-year-old man while riding the northbound A train around 4:45 p.m., according to Michael Kemper, the Police Department’s Chief of Transit, The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/nyregion/subway-shooting-brooklyn.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. Video <a href="https://twitter.com/lattinabrown/status/1768430156710904302?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">footage</a> of the incident showed the 36-year-old black man, yelling at the other man, “I’ll beat you up!” before getting in his face and saying, “F*** your race. F*** your kind. F*** you.”
Shortly after the two men got into the verbal tussle, they squared up, causing subway passengers around them to move to a different area of the train. “There’s babies on here!” one woman shouted as the men began to fight. The 36-year-old man eventually pushed the other man down onto a seat and punched him several times before a woman attempted to stop him from delivering any more blows.
The fight was briefly broken up when another man, along with the woman, stepped in between the two men. The video showed blood on the back of the 36-year-old man, who asked if the other man had stabbed him. The 36-year-old continued to move toward the other man and eventually pulled out a handgun, causing passengers to scramble toward the other end of the train with some people screaming, “Get down! Get down!” and “Let me out!”
Multiple gunshots then rang out, but the video doesn’t show the shooting as the person recording runs off the train when it comes to a stop. Police said the 32-year-old man wrestled the firearm away from the other man before shooting him and was arrested on the scene, The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/14/us-news/video-shows-moments-before-brooklyn-subway-shooting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The 36-year-old man was rushed to Brooklyn Methodist Hospital in critical condition.
As of Thursday evening, Chief Kemper said it remained unclear if the 32-year-old man would face any charges or if his actions were in self-defense.
“The victim here, as the chief said, appears to be the aggressor,” said Janno Lieber, the transit authority’s chief executive. “But the real victims are the people I saw in those videos, who are having a harrowing time because they’re on a train with somebody with a gun.”
The shooting came just a week after Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) deployed National Guard troops and state troopers to the Big Apple’s subways to check passengers’ bags. The city also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-to-bring-back-bag-searches-surge-1000-officers-into-subway-system" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> its police presence in subways in hopes of deterring would-be criminals.
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Multiple <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/man-shot-and-killed-on-subway-in-the-bronx-police-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deadly</a> <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/metal-pipe-beating-adds-to-growing-list-of-violent-nyc-subway-attacks/5150631/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">attacks</a> on NYC subways have made headlines in recent months, and last year, U.S. Marine veteran <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-refuses-to-dismiss-subway-death-case-against-daniel-penny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Penny</a> was arrested and charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide after he restrained Jordan Neely, a homeless man who was allegedly threatening passengers on a subway car. Neely lost consciousness and later died following the incident.
Penny pleaded not guilty to the charges and has maintained that he was acting to protect his fellow passengers.

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Man Shot In Head On NYC Subway; Video Shows Passengers Scramble To Get Away Moments Before Shooting

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New York City is reimplementing some tough-on-crime policies while surging police officers into the city’s subway system amid a spike in crime.
Democratic Mayor Eric Adams announced the revamped approach to crime during a press briefing on Tuesday. Adams’ efforts are supported by New York Democratic Governor Kathy Hochul, who committed state resources to the crackdown.
“We are going to continuously make sure we show a visible presence to deal with how people are feeling in our subway system right now,” Adams said, according to <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/nypd-subway-crime-security-check/5196047/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC New York</a>. “When I ride, people say, ‘Eric, nothing makes me feel safer than seeing that officer walking through the system, walking trains.’”
The city intends to increase police presence in the subway system train as they work 12-hour shifts. Adams said the change could be a significant deterrent to would-be criminals. The state is supporting the surge with 1,000 additional officers composed of 750 national guardsmen and 250 state police, according to the <a href="https://nypost.com/2024/03/06/us-news/gov-hochul-to-deploy-1000-national-guardsman-state-cops-to-carry-out-bag-checks-in-nyc-subways/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York Post</a>.
“These brazen heinous attacks on our subway system will not be tolerated,” Hochul said on Wednesday. The crackdown on crime in New York City comes after a spate of violence in the city&#8217;s subway, including three New Yorkers fatally shot on the subway this year.
Part of the plan to curb criminals plaguing the city is to reimplement stop-and-search of riders’ bags at train stations, a move reminiscent of the stop-and-frisk policy that ended under Adams’ predecessor, former Democratic Mayor Bill de Blasio. Stop-and-frisk ended after de Blasio, who ran for mayor on reforming the practice, sought a resolution to a years-long court battle over the policy, deemed unconstitutional by a federal judge. 
Adams has <a href="https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2021/05/25/eric-adams-explains-why-he-supports-stop-and-frisk--when-it-s-used-legally" target="_blank" rel="noopener">expressed</a> support in the past for aspects of stop-and-frisk.
On Tuesday, Adams said police would search bags at train platforms to check for weapons and potential weapons, such as knives, box cutters, and firearms.
“We are reinstituting bag checks. There are several things we are reinstituting in the system,” Adams said, according to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/new-york-city-reinstituting-bag-checks-to-combat-rising-subway-crime/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS News</a>.
The city is also looking at getting machine detectors, similar to those used at airports, to scan riders.
“We’re definitely on the pathway of coming up with some new technology that&#8217;s going to help us identify weapons, as well as guns. My big thing is guns,” Adams said.
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Hochul’s office expressed support for Adams’ new public safety plan on Tuesday.
“Governor Hochul has made historic commitments to make our subways safer, from security cameras to mental health personnel, and tomorrow she will unveil new legislation to protect riders, new State personnel to assist NYPD with bag checks, and other new measures to keep New Yorkers safe,” a representative from Hochul’s office said, according to NBC.

NYC To Bring Back Bag Searches, Surge 1,000 Officers Into Subway System

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A young cellist and medical student will no longer perform his music in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> Subway stations after being assaulted for the second time in less than a year.
The victim — Iain Forrest, an MD-PhD student studying genetics — was playing his electric cello in the 34th Street–Herald Square station when a female bystander stepped forward, grabbed his metal water bottle, and struck him once on the back of the head before fleeing. Forrest explained in a viral X thread that this was the second assault he&#8217;s endured in under a year, a pattern that he says has prompted him to stop such public performances.
“This marks the second attack I’ve endured in less than a year while performing for New Yorkers in subway stations,” said Forrest. “I don’t think I can do this anymore. I’m suspending subway performances indefinitely.”
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Yesterday, I was attacked in the NYC subway. At 5:50 pm on February 14th, while performing at 34th St Herald Square station, a woman wearing a mustard jacket, red scarf, and gloves assaulted me by smashing the back of my head with my metal water bottle. <a href="https://t.co/UpSl43yk3x">pic.twitter.com/UpSl43yk3x</a>
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Forrest reported that his assailant fled into a nearby store following the attack, successfully evading pursuers and police by shedding her outer garments.
New York Police Department (NYPD) Crime Stoppers posted another angle of Forrest’s assailant in which her scarf doesn’t cover her face. NYPD offered a reward of up to $3,500 for <a href="https://crimestoppers.nypdonline.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tips</a> leading to her arrest and indictment.
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🚨WANTED🚨for an ASSAULT in the mezzanine inside of the 34th Street/ Herald Square station <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/heraldsquare?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#heraldsquare</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/manhattan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#manhattan</a> On 2/13/24 @ 7:47 PM Reward up to $3500 Seen her? Know who she is? Call 1-800-577-TIPS or DM us! Calls are CONFIDENTIAL! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/yourcityyourcall?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#yourcityyourcall</a> <a href="https://t.co/gExo1F5JwV">pic.twitter.com/gExo1F5JwV</a>
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According to NYPD crime data, transit crimes citywide have <a href="https://compstat.nypdonline.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> by nearly 23 percent year to date. Since January, NYPD has reported 138 incidents of grand larceny, 64 felony assaults, 60 robberies, three burglaries, and one murder. In the same time period last year, there were 99 reported incidents of grand larceny, 58 felony assaults, 57 robberies, one burglary, one murder, and one rape.
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New York City Transit Authority (NYCTA), which runs the New York City Subway, <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/nypd/stats/reports-analysis/transit-bus.page" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> a total of over 4,900 complaints last year: nearly 2,300 of those were <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/transit-bus-crime-reports/2023/complaints-in-transit-report-cy-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">classified</a> as assaults. There were less than 900 arrests <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/transit-bus-crime-reports/2023/arrests-in-transit-report-cy-2023.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> for assault last year.
Last year’s totals were an <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/transit-bus-crime-reports/2022/complaints-in-transit-report-cy-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increase</a> from 2022, in which NYCTA reported over 4,700 complaints, with just over 2,000 of those classified as assaults. There were fewer than 700 arrests <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/downloads/pdf/analysis_and_planning/transit-bus-crime-reports/2022/arrests-in-transit-report-cy-2022.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> for assault in 2022.
Data from Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA), NYCTA’s affiliate, covering felonies across all of its transportation modes — busing and commuter rail, in addition to the subway — <a href="https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/MTA-Major-Felonies/yeek-jhmu/about_data" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> that felony assaults increased to 642 last year, up from totals in the prior four years: 586 in 2022, 498 in 2021, 368 in 2020, and 395 in 2019. Murders declined slightly to seven last year from 10 in 2022, though up from six in 2021, five in 2020, and three in 2019. Burglaries remained high at 39 reported incidents last year, up from 22 in 2022 and the same as the totals for 2021 and 2020, all up from the 18 incidents reported in 2019.
Other MTA data specific to the subway revealed that <a href="https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/MTA-Subway-and-Bus-Employee-Assaults-and-Harassmen/2xh4-m2qk/about_data" target="_blank" rel="noopener">assaults</a> on subway workers totaled 80 last year, nearly double the totals for 2022, 2021, and 2020: for all three years, assaults totaled 45.
Other crimes have increased as well. MTA has <a href="https://data.ny.gov/Transportation/MTA-Subway-and-Bus-Vandalism-Beginning-2021/23fs-vfbd/data_preview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> a marked increase in subway vandalism incidents from 2021 (484) to 2022 (755) and 2023 (650).
Subway fires remained fairly consistent, totaling over 1,000 over the last three years, an uptick from the 900 reported incidents in 2020.

Cello

Cellist Med Student Gives Up NYC Subway Performances After Assaulted Twice In One Year

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A man in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> has been charged with reckless endangerment after he stepped in to help a woman who was being robbed at a subway station by a homeless man and fired several shots, according to police. 
John Rote, 43, was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/nyregion/gun-shots-subway-nyc.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">charged</a> with criminal possession of a firearm, criminal possession of a weapon, reckless endangerment and menacing after he allegedly fired two shots in the direction of a mugger who had accosted a woman at 10:00 p.m. Tuesday night at a subway station in Manhattan, according to the New York Times.
New York officials blasted Rote, saying that what he did was unacceptable.
&#8220;I want to be clear: we don’t tolerate this kind of conduct in NYC Transit, period,&#8221; <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-york-man-saved-woman-subway-mugging-scaring-off-would-be-robber-warning-shot-arrested" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> NYC Transit President Richard Davey. &#8220;Once again cameras recorded a perpetrator, and we are grateful the NYPD made an arrest within hours. Thank goodness nobody was hurt here – but what occurred was outrageous, reckless, and unacceptable.&#8221;
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NEW: New York man John Rote has been arrested after he saved a woman from getting robbed by a homeless man in a Manhattan subway station.
The current state of New York City.
On Tuesday evening, Rote noticed that a woman was getting robbed and immediately jumped into action. The… <a href="https://t.co/1vbhjowNpl">pic.twitter.com/1vbhjowNpl</a>
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Matthew Roesch, 49, allegedly accosted a woman while he was holding open an emergency gate. Police say that he then tried to take her purse which was when “another customer pulled out a gun and tried to intervene,” according to Davey. 
“Roesch demands a dollar for letting her enter the subway illegally,” <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2023/11/09/manhattan-subway-vigilante-held-bail/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny. “Mr. Roesch begins to follow her, demanding money. She won’t give it to him. He says, ‘Give me a dollar, or I’m going to take your purse.&#8217;”
Rote then told Roesch to “leave her alone” before firing a shot at Roesch’s feet, according to Kenny. Police say Rote told them that he threw his gun into the East River after the incident.
“He was concerned, asking if he hurt anybody,” said Kenny. “It was just an impulsive thing to do. He’s just stepping in, he thought he was trying to help this woman.”
Roesch now faces attempted robbery charges and was released under court-ordered supervision while Rote was held on $10,000 bail. 
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According to NYPD Inspector Steven Hill, Roesch is known to pressure commuters to give him money and has been a “constant problem.” 
One man who knows Rote told the New York Daily News that he is “a decent guy … He seems very mild-mannered. I don’t know whether he’s going to lose his job, but me personally, I think he shouldn’t. I think the [woman] should be thankful.”
The case echoes another incident from the New York City subway where former Marine Daniel Penny <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-daniel-penny-court-docs-subway-riders-hid-feared-for-lives-over-neely-threats-satanic-behavior" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was charged</a> after he restrained a homeless man on a subway who passengers say was acting erratically and threatening violence. The homeless man died and Penny faces charges of second-degree manslaughter and negligent homicide.

New York Man Charged After Trying To Help Woman Being Robbed By Homeless Man In Subway: Police

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Police departments nationwide regularly receive a <a href="https://le.fbi.gov/file-repository/hate-crime-data-collection-guidelines-and-training-manual.pdf/view" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a> from the DOJ entitled &#8220;Hate Crime Data Collection Guidelines And Training Manual.&#8221; The point of the manual is to educate officers on how to identify hate crimes and report them to the feds for the all-important hate crime statistics you often see in the media. They were <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/us/hate-crimes-fbi-2017.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">everywhere</a> during the Trump presidency. You still see these hate crime figures cited today, in fact. These are the statistics that supposedly prove white supremacy is the greatest threat this country has ever faced.
Given all the reliance on these numbers, it&#8217;s strange that no one ever talks about the DOJ manual. You&#8217;d think there&#8217;d be some curiosity about how these numbers are determined. So I decided to read the document myself. One of the most extensive sections of the manual, as it turns out, is the &#8220;exercises&#8221; section. These are hypothetical scenarios that the DOJ provides to police departments to help illustrate hate crimes law. One of the exercises is about two gang members who assault a random Hindu person with a baseball bat. The exercise states that, &#8220;When taken into custody, the two juveniles reported they committed the assault because they want the Hindu people to go back where they came from.”
As you can probably guess, the DOJ&#8217;s manual instructs officers to categorize this incident as a hate crime because of  &#8220;the offenders&#8217; derogatory comments about the Hindu community.&#8221; Seems straightforward enough. If you beat someone up while yelling, &#8220;go back where you came from,&#8221; then you&#8217;re committing a hate crime. If &#8220;hate crime&#8221; means anything, then that would seem to qualify.
What&#8217;s interesting is that a real-life version of this exercise just played out earlier this month in New York City. 51-year-old Asian American Sue Young was traveling on a subway train in Greenwich Village — supposedly one of the nice areas of the city — with her husband and her 11-year-old twin girls. That&#8217;s when three black teenage girls started screaming and cursing at Sue Young. She tried to play it off. Her husband suggested the girls might be “uneducated.&#8221; A rather plausible theory, I would say. Then the teenagers <a href="https://abc7ny.com/nyc-crime-subway-f-train-assault-greenwich-vilage/13613800/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Sue Young to go back where she came from. Within seconds, one of the teenagers, a 16-year-old girl, began attacking Young. Then, for good measure, the teenager beat a bystander who recorded the incident.
Given all those facts, you&#8217;d think it&#8217;s safe to call this incident a hate crime, since it pretty much mirrors exactly the scenario in the DOJ&#8217;s hate-crimes manual. &#8220;Go back where you came from&#8221; is an admission that the attack relates to the victims&#8217; national origin, race, or religion. It&#8217;s pretty straightforward to any reasonable person. But it&#8217;s not straightforward to New York police, apparently. They have <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/08/teen-arrested-for-assault-of-tourist-on-nyc-subway-in-viral-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decided</a> not to charge the teenager in this case with a hate crime. They found her. They arrested her. They know she told her victim to go back to her country. But there won&#8217;t be any hate crimes charges.
That&#8217;s not because the evidence is unclear. There&#8217;s no dispute about any of these facts. It&#8217;s all been established. Watch:
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&#8220;Go back where you came from,&#8221; followed by a beating. Under the DOJ&#8217;s guidelines, that&#8217;s a hate crime. It’s literally one of the exact scenarios they specify as a hate crime. But it won&#8217;t be recorded as one.
If you&#8217;re the kind of person who trusts government statistics on crime — or on any topic at all — then this development is mind-blowing, to put it mildly. It&#8217;s the kind of thing that might make you ask some unapproved questions. For example, you might wonder: Is it really true, as multiple outlets have <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/08/12/1027236499/anti-asian-hate-crimes-assaults-pandemic-incidents-aapi" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, that the &#8220;anti-Asian hate-crime epidemic&#8221; is caused by all those MAGA Republicans that secretly live in New York and San Francisco? Are MAGA Republicans not only controlling the weather and melting the ice caps, but also patrolling the streets looking for Asians to randomly assault? Can we trust that data?
Here are the real numbers. As The City Journal recently <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-hate-crime-distraction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, &#8220;While black perpetrators account for 27.5 percent of violent attacks against Asians, Asians commit less than 0.1 percent of violent attacks against blacks, indicating little role for proximity. Most violent attacks against individuals of a particular racial group are committed by other members of that group — except for Asians, where a plurality is committed by blacks. In fact, blacks are responsible for 305 percent more violent crime against Asians than neighborhood demographics would predict, while whites and Hispanics commit significantly fewer attacks against Asians than would be expected.&#8221;
What this suggests is that hate-crime statistics are meaningless. Totally bogus. They misrepresent and vastly underreport the amount of anti-Asian racial violence committed by black people, particularly young black people. What happened in Sue Young&#8217;s case isn&#8217;t as unusual as it might appear.
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To be clear, there are many other reasons to conclude these hate-crime statistics aren&#8217;t reliable. The overwhelming majority of police departments report zero hate crimes every year, for example. You heard that right — zero hate crimes. In 2019, fewer than 15% of the nearly 16,000 jurisdictions <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-hate-crime-distraction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> a single hate crime to the DOJ, even though they participated in the DOJ&#8217;s reporting system. This is a tiny sample size we&#8217;re talking about here.
And these police departments — the few that are reporting hate crimes — are not verifying, as a legal matter, that any hate crime occurred. The hate-crime statistics don&#8217;t refer to hate crimes that have been proven. They refer to reports of hate crimes, as the DOJ manual says. All it takes is a cop to code a case as &#8220;hateful,&#8221; and boom, you have a hate crime. No jury or judge is required.
These are the gaping holes in the hate crimes reporting system that you never hear about. So you have to ask: Why do we have this hate-crimes system, if it&#8217;s not producing anything remotely resembling accurate results? And for that matter, even if we could measure this accurately, why does anyone bother recording hate crimes? Why not record crimes that are motivated by, say, greed or lust? Why does the &#8220;hate crimes&#8221; designation persist? As I’ve often argued, the most dangerous people in society are those motivated not by hate but by indifference to human life. Why don’t we have a separate federal category for Indifferent Crimes? Why give hate crimes this special place of honor, especially when they aren’t being recorded in any kind of honest or consistent way?
Well, Sue Young and her husband offer us some clues on that front. They&#8217;ve come out and given interviews absolving their attacker of personal responsibility. Watch: 
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&#8220;We don&#8217;t know what battles other people have in their lives, but I can imagine they&#8217;re probably not as privileged,&#8221; Sue Young&#8217;s husband said. He&#8217;s apparently justifying why he allowed his wife to be accosted right in front of him. He adds, &#8220;That probably has a lot to do with their outlook on the world and the anger they may have.&#8221; Therefore, the couple agrees, what happened to them was not a hate crime. They&#8217;re happy they took their beating instead of fighting back.
What that couple is saying out loud, without realizing it, is the real reason hate crimes persist as a category. The point of hate crimes isn&#8217;t really to measure hate. The point is to measure victimhood, where the victims happen to be the primary voting blocs of the Democratic Party. If you have &#8220;privilege&#8221; — meaning if you&#8217;re Asian or white — then hate crimes can&#8217;t happen to you. If you&#8217;re attacked because of your ethnicity, you should rationalize it. Justify the actions of your attackers.
One of the many problems with this reasoning — other than the fact that &#8220;lack of privilege&#8221; cannot conceivably justify beating up a woman in front of her kids — is that plenty of poor people don&#8217;t commit violent crimes. We can measure this. The assumption that Sue Young and her husband have — that their attacker must have a really hard life — isn&#8217;t an explanation at all for what happened. The Twitter account &#8220;Monitoring Bias&#8221; has <a href="https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-hate-crime-distraction" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looked into</a> the numbers on this. The account found that, &#8220;In NYC, where the percentage of Asians who live in poverty is close to that of blacks, the black arrest rate for murder was 13 times higher than for Asians in 2020.&#8221;
In other words, black people aren’t simply committing acts of violence because many of them are poor. The black violent crime rate is still disproportionately high even when you control for income level and economic class. The point is that these punks on the subway aren&#8217;t really &#8220;angry&#8221; or going through any great personal struggle. They are bored and spoiled, and they&#8217;ve been empowered to act however they want, with the knowledge that their behavior will always be excused no matter how heinous it is. They have no fear of any punishment. In that way, they&#8217;re like the rich Antifa kids who spit on cops or the lawyers who threw firebombs at a police cruiser during a BLM riot. They&#8217;re like the thugs who you see going into Nordstrom or the Apple store and walking out with all the merchandise. They know they&#8217;re not going to suffer immediate, severe, and long-lasting punishment. They know they might not suffer any punishment at all. They know their victims are weak and often lack the will to defend themselves. So they take advantage of it.
That&#8217;s the reality. Some people won&#8217;t acknowledge it even when it hits them in the face, many times over, on the subway. They&#8217;ve been fed so many lies, including from the DOJ&#8217;s hate crimes reporting system, that they&#8217;re incapable of diagnosing the problem, much less trying to solve it. Their weakness will perpetuate violence on all sides. People can only take so many subway beatings and &#8220;random&#8221; stabbings before they start defending themselves. 
The Youngs were proud of themselves for not “attacking” the black teens who were harassing them. But people are growing weary of this kind of passivity — of this submissiveness in the face of lawless, violent thugs. The dam can’t hold forever. There will be a lot more Daniel Pennys coming soon. And when that happens, the DOJ will call it hateful. They&#8217;ll call it a sign of rampant white supremacy. What they&#8217;ll never admit — what they know is true — is that it will be their fault.
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The Case That Proves Why Hate Crime Statistics Are Bogus

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More than 1,000 people who tried to skip out on paying to ride the New York City subway reportedly had active arrest warrants for other crimes, including one man who was accused of murder.
Police were already looking to arrest about 1,136 of the 2,502 New Yorkers arrested for subway fare beating this year <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/07/22/nearly-half-of-fare-beaters-caught-this-year-have-had-active-warrants/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to NYPD data reviewed by the New York Post.
That amounts to about 45% of all fare beaters.
Some fare beaters had arrest warrants out for weapon possession, felony assault, and drugs, NYPD Transit Chief Michael Kemper told the MTA Board on Monday.
More than 200 were caught with deadly weapons — including 13 guns and over 200 knives, Kemper said.
Last month, two men who were wanted for subway stabbings were apprehended within 24 hours of each other when they tried to skip the fare for New York City public transit, one for the subway and one for the bus.
Claude White, 33, a homeless man, was <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/19/claude-white-charged-in-nyc-subway-murder-of-tavon-silver/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">arrested</a> and charged with murder and weapons charges after he was spotted fare beating in a Harlem subway station wearing blood-stained pants.
Police had already been searching for White, who is accused of fatally stabbing another man in the chest on a Manhattan subway train in June over a drug dispute. White was on parole and was also wanted in connection with a bank robbery that occurred on June 6.
The same four NYPD officers who caught White also apprehended Kemal Rideout, 28, a suspected serial subway slasher, after the cops saw him eating a bag of chips after he got kicked off an MTA bus for fare evasion and recognized him from a wanted poster.
Rideout allegedly went on a stabbing spree on June 19, stabbing three random women at two different subway stations. Rideout had previously been arrested for attempted rape, assault, criminal mischief, and forcible touching, and has a history of mental illness, authorities <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/20/suspect-nabbed-in-nyc-subway-slashing-spree/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Kemper, the NYPD transit chief, said at a press conference on the two high-profile arrests that the police department had sent more than 1,000 more officers to patrol the subway system since the fall.
Since then, subway crime has decreased by 6%, and the number of subway victims has fallen 66% since last year, Kemper said.
Meanwhile, arrests for subway crime have increased by 52%, and fare evasion arrests have increased by 143%, Kemper said.
New York&#8217;s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) has <a href="https://pix11.com/news/local-news/two-cameras-will-be-installed-in-more-than-6400-subway-cars-in-nyc-hochul-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">invested</a> heavily in more surveillance cameras in subway stations and even inside subway cars over the last few years.
The MTA has also begun using artificial intelligence to track fare beaters at seven subway stations in the city, and it plans to expand the technology to two dozen more stations this year, <a href="https://abc7ny.com/mta-artificial-intelligence-subway-fare-evasions/13533675/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the agency&#8217;s May report.
The MTA <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-fare-evasion-mta-loses-millions-20230517-lclax5yqwzevpnupib76ues6aa-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lost</a> $690 million to fare evasion in 2022, the agency estimated.
Overall, crime in New York City has remained about the same year over year as of May, with violent crime, which spiked during the pandemic, mostly down, including homicides and shootings.
However, car thefts have spiked 33% to 1,369 car thefts this year.
Meanwhile, though, the city has <a href="https://citylimits.org/2023/07/24/as-homeless-population-booms-nyc-steps-closer-to-an-accurate-shelter-census/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">struggled</a> to address a homelessness and drug addiction crisis.

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More Than 1,000 NYC Fare Beaters Had Active Arrest Warrants: Report

A lawyer for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/daniel-penny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Penny</a> told Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro in an interview on Thursday that accusations of racial bias against the former Marine were utterly &#8220;baseless.&#8221;
Penny <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daniel-penny-pleads-not-guilty-to-charges-over-jordan-neelys-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pled not guilty</a> to one count of second-degree manslaughter and one count of negligent homicide on Tuesday after he was accused of killing Jordan Neely, a homeless man with a violent criminal record, on a Manhattan subway train on May 1.
Some in the media seemed to turn the incident into a racial issue because Penny was white and Neely black. Tom Kenniff, a lawyer representing Penny, told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1757-biden-is-obviously-a-corrupt-liar-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Shapiro on his Thursday podcast</a> that it was nothing other than &#8220;reckless, vitriolic speculation&#8221; to turn the incident on the subway into a racial incident, saying that Penny &#8220;doesn&#8217;t have any racial animus.&#8221;
Kenniff told Shapiro that he had no doubt that Penny would be exonerated. Last month, Penny placed Neely in a chokehold on the floor of a Manhattan subway car to subdue him after witnesses said Neely was making threatening comments toward passengers on board the vehicle.
“We have absolutely no doubt that ultimately our client will be exonerated. But, you know, the law recognizes and we as a people should recognize that the mere act of being the subject of a criminal prosecution, regardless of how it turns out, is a life-altering, traumatizing thing for anyone,” he said.
Neely <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/daniel-penny-pleads-not-guilty-nyc-subway-chokehold-death-jordan-neely-rcna91611" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reportedly</a> said he was ready to go to jail for the rest of his life and was ready to die.
“Anyone who knows anything about the New York criminal justice system knows that there is only one way that one could go to prison for the rest of their life, and that&#8217;s to take another life,” Kenniff told The Daily Wire co-founder. “So that&#8217;s the environment that my client was in, and this case is all about, you know, what he reasonably perceived and what a person in his situation would have reasonably perceived.”
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Penny <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grand-jury-indicts-daniel-penny-in-death-of-jordan-neely-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was indicted on</a> June 14 after New York officials promised to investigate the incident. The indictment was praised by attorneys for Neely’s family.
A <a href="https://www.givesendgo.com/daniel_penny" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GiveSendGo campaign</a> set up to pay Penny’s legal expenses has already raised more than $2 million. Penny&#8217;s next court appearance is set for September 25.

Daniel Penny Arraigned In Subway Chokehold Death Of Jordan Neely

Lawyer For Daniel Penny Blasts ‘Reckless’ Speculation About Racial Motivation In Subway Confrontation

Lawyer For Daniel Penny Blasts 'Reckless' Speculation About Racial Motivation In Subway Confrontation

Jordan Williams, a man charged in the fatal stabbing of another rider during a confrontation on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/subway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subway</a> train in Brooklyn, will not be prosecuted, according to officials.
A grand jury voted not to indict Williams, a 20-year-old from Queens who <a href="https://gothamist.com/news/charges-dropped-against-accused-j-train-stabber-who-claimed-self-defense" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed he was acting in self-defense</a>, on manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon charges in connection to the June 13 encounter that left Devictor Ouedraogo dead.
“Our office conducted an impartial and thorough investigation of this tragic case, which included review of multiple videos and interviews with all available witnesses, and that evidence was fairly presented to a grand jury,&#8221; a spokesperson for the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said on Wednesday. &#8220;Today, the charges against Jordan Williams have been dismissed.&#8221;
The spokesperson added: &#8220;Under New York law, a person is justified in using deadly physical force when they reasonably believe it is necessary to use such force to defend themselves or others from imminent use of deadly or unlawful physical force.&#8221;
Jason Goldman, a lawyer representing Williams, had said the &#8220;victim was menacing people, as all of us have probably seen on the subway, erratic, deranged, crazy and in many people&#8217;s faces before he even encounters my client,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/jordan-williams-accused-in-fatal-j-train-stabbing-in-williamsburg-granted-supervised-release/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">per CBS News</a>.
Ouedraogo, identified as a 36-year-old <a href="https://pix11.com/news/local-news/brooklyn/charges-dismissed-against-man-in-fatal-brooklyn-subway-stabbing-da-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">homeless man with a criminal record</a>, allegedly told riders on the subway car he was going to &#8220;erase someone&#8221; and asked Williams&#8217;s girlfriend, &#8220;Want to f***?&#8221;, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/28/accused-j-train-stabber-dodges-manslaughter-charges-in-fatal-nyc-subway-brawl-sources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a> reported.
A confrontation between Ouedraogo and Williams ensued in which witnesses said Ouedraogo threw the first punch, a law enforcement source <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/nyregion/nyc-subway-stabbing-charges-dropped.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told The New York Times</a>.
Sources told The New York Post that video footage presented to the grand jury allegedly showed Ouedraogo choking Williams and striking Williams&#8217;s girlfriend in the face.
The clash allegedly came to an end after Williams pulled out a knife and stabbed Ouedraogo.
After police responded to a 911 call and found Ouedraogo at a train station, Ouedraogo was transported to the hospital with a chest stab wound and pronounced dead. Williams was taken into custody a few stops away and later released without bail.
&#8220;I was scared in that situation,&#8221; Williams said after the grand jury declined to indict him, <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/charges-dropped-against-nyc-man-accused-in-deadly-self-defense-subway-stabbing/4462523/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to NBC New York</a>. &#8220;I&#8217;m happy that I can get on with my life the way I&#8217;d like to.&#8221;
Ouedraogo’s younger sister Marina said she believes the dismissal was &#8220;just wrong,&#8221; The New York Times reported. &#8220;It is sending a signal that basically any one of us can carry a weapon. That is basically what we are saying here.&#8221;
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The fatal altercation followed another deadly New York City subway incident in which Marine veteran <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marine-vet-accused-of-killing-jordan-neely-turns-himself-in-after-charge-against-him-revealed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Penny</a> used a headlock restraint on Jordan Neely, a homeless man who allegedly shouted and threatened passengers, before Neely passed out and died.
Penny, who claims he acted to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daniel-penny-speaks-out-about-death-of-jordan-neely-disputes-key-claim-about-headlock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defend himself and others</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daniel-penny-pleads-not-guilty-to-charges-over-jordan-neelys-death" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pleaded not guilty</a> to manslaughter and negligent homicide charges on Wednesday and was freed on <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/daniel-penny-expected-court-chokehold-death-jordan-neely/story?id=100334248" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$100,000 bail</a>.

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Charges Dismissed Against Man In Fatal Stabbing Of Alleged NYC Subway Menace

Marine veteran Daniel Penny pled not guilty to manslaughter and negligent homicide charges on Wednesday after being accused of killing Jordan Neely on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> subway train last month. 
On May 1, Penny placed Neely in a chokehold on the floor of a Manhattan subway car to subdue him alongside other passengers after witnesses said Neely was making threatening comments towards passengers on board the vehicle. 
Penny <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/US/daniel-penny-expected-court-chokehold-death-jordan-neely/story?id=100334248" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pled not guilty</a> to second-degree manslaughter and negligent homicide before being freed on $100,000 bail. “We are a long way off from trial, but all the evidence we’ve seen is that our client acted under the law,” said Thomas Keniff, a lawyer for Penny. 
Neely, a homeless man with more than 40 arrests, had a known history of mental issues before he died. The New York Daily News <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/ny-subway-chokehold-victim-20230503-4o33lbkdufb7lbf36jeur52z3i-story.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Neely was most recently arrested in November 2021 on felony assault charges after being accused of “slugging a 67-year-old female stranger in the face.” After pleading guilty to the latter charge, Neely failed to appear for court, leading to a warrant being active for his arrest at the time of his death, per <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/05/11/manslaughter-charge-jordan-neely-chokehold-death/70209542007/">USA Today</a>. 
“Daniel Penny did not have the courage to look Mr. Jordan’s father in the eye,” said Dante Mills, a lawyer for the Neely family. 
Penny <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grand-jury-indicts-daniel-penny-in-death-of-jordan-neely-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was indicted on</a> June 14 after New York officials promised to investigate the incident. The indictment was praised by attorneys for Neely’s family.
“The grand jury&#8217;s decision tells our city and our nation that &#8216;no one is above the law&#8217; no matter how much money they raise, no matter what affiliations they claim, and no matter what distorted stories they tell in interviews,&#8221; Neely’s family lawyers said.
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Penny’s defense team has consistently maintained his innocence, saying the evidence is in their favor. 
&#8220;While we respect the decision of the grand jury to move this case forward to trial, it should be noted that the standard of proof in a grand jury is very low and there has been no finding of wrongdoing. We&#8217;re confident that when a trial jury is tasked with weighing the evidence, they will find Daniel Penny&#8217;s actions on that train were fully justified,” lawyer Steven Raiser said. 
Penny <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daniel-penny-breaks-his-silence-following-the-death-of-jordan-neely" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spoke out after the incident,</a> saying Neely&#8217;s skin color was not a factor. 
“This had nothing to do with race,” he said. “I judge a person based on their character. I’m not a white supremacist. I mean, it’s, it’s a little bit comical. Everybody who’s ever met me can tell you, I love all people, I love all cultures.”
Penny is scheduled to appear in court next on October 25.

Daniel Penny Pleads Not Guilty To Charges Over Jordan Neely’s Death

Daniel Penny Pleads Not Guilty To Charges Over Jordan Neely's Death

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A man is facing charges after yet another fatal encounter on a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york-city" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York City</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/subway" target="_blank" rel="noopener">subway</a> train with an alleged menace who was threatening passengers.
Jordan Williams, a 20-year-old from Queens, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with manslaughter and possession of a weapon for the stabbing death of Devictor Ouedraogo in Brooklyn.
Law enforcement sources <a href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/passenger-killed-in-stabbing-attack-aboard-subway-in-brooklyn-police/4422383/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told NBC New York</a> that Ouedraogo, 36, was harassing passengers around 8 p.m. Tuesday on a train car, and a toxicology report will help determine if the man was under the influence. Investigators are said to be examining cell phone video of the tussle as part of their inquiry.
Police sources <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/06/14/man-killed-on-nyc-train-punched-woman-before-fatal-stabbing-sources/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told the New York Post</a> that Ouedraogo, who records show did time in state prison for a 2009 attempted robbery, began to argue with Williams and his girlfriend when Ouedraogo struck the woman in the face. A fight ensued, during which Williams allegedly pulled out a knife and stabbed Ouedraogo, after which Ouedraogo was transported to the hospital and pronounced dead.
Jason Goldman, a lawyer who claims to be representing Williams, decried the situation as &#8220;upsetting&#8221; because his client was &#8220;charged without a thorough investigation,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/14/nyregion/nyc-subway-stabbing-charges.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according to The New York Times</a>.
The fatal altercation comes on the heels of another deadly train incident in which Marine veteran <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marine-vet-accused-of-killing-jordan-neely-turns-himself-in-after-charge-against-him-revealed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Daniel Penny</a> placed Jordan Neely, a homeless street performer known to have mental issues and an extensive criminal history, into a headlock last month on a New York City subway train. Neely, too, was allegedly shouting and threatening passengers before he was restrained.
As seen in bystander video footage, Neely appeared to lose consciousness. He was pronounced dead after being taken to a hospital, according to the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/subway-chokehold-jordan-neely-eric-adams-ny-32738691fce26628a698fc3b10550320">Associated Press</a>. New York City&#8217;s medical examiner <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/05/03/medical-examiner-rules-jordan-neelys-death-a-homicide-after-subway-choking/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ruled</a> Neely&#8217;s death a homicide due to “compression of neck (chokehold),&#8221; but the ruling did not determine culpability.
More than a week after the incident, Penny <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/marine-vet-accused-of-killing-jordan-neely-turns-himself-in-after-charge-against-him-revealed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">surrendered</a> to law enforcement in New York on second-degree manslaughter charges, though Penny did not enter a plea and was released on $100,000 bail. A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grand-jury-indicts-daniel-penny-in-death-of-jordan-neely-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grand jury indicted</a> in Manhattan then indicted Penny <a href="https://www.reuters.com/legal/new-york-grand-jury-indicts-former-marine-killing-jordan-neely-2023-06-14/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this week</a>.
In video clips released by his lawyers over the weekend, Penny said he jumped into action to protect himself and commuters. In addition, Penny denied that race was a motivating factor. He called such claims &#8220;absolutely ridiculous,&#8221; adding, &#8220;I didn&#8217;t see a black man threatening passengers. I saw a man threatening passengers, a lot of whom were people of color.&#8221;
Goldman said Williams also acted in &#8220;clear self-defense,&#8221; but questioned whether his client is getting the &#8220;same treatment&#8221; as Penny, in part because Williams is black and Penny is white.
“Is Mr. Williams not getting the same treatment that Mr. Penny received — released, voluntary surrender, and low bail — because his skin color is different and he comes from a particular neighborhood?” Goldman said.
Multiple reports said members of Ouedraogo&#8217;s family could not be immediately reached.

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