NY official slams woke Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for indictment of ex-Marine ... trends now
A New York official slammed woke Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg for the indictment of ex-Marine Daniel Penny over Jordan Neely's subway chokehold death.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman spoke out on 'Fox & Friends' condemning Manhattan District Alvin Bragg's indictment of the 24-year-old ex-Marine, as he told host Steven Doocy 'it defies logic that he's being prosecuted.'
Penny was indicted by a grand jury on Wednesday and is scheduled to be arraigned on June 28 in Manhattan Supreme Court.
He will face Judge Maxwell Wiley on a second-degree manslaughter and another charge of criminally negligent homicide, as per the DA's office.
The former infantry squad member jumped into action after Neely reportedly harassed and shouted at passengers during a ride on the F train on May 1. Penny placed Neely, a street performer who had drug and mental health issues, in a chokehold which later killed him.
After Neely's death, there had been a public outcry, but Blakeman spoke about the injustice taking place and called Penny a 'Good Samaritan.'
'There's something rotten about this prosecution, just like there was something rotten about the prosecution of Joseph Alba, the bodega store worker who was defending himself,' Blakeman said.
Daniel Penny and his lawyers aid he asked in self-defense when he put Jordan Neely in a chokehold on a NYC subway train May 1
Neely had a history of mental health issues, arrests and drug use before the May 1 confrontation
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman spoke out on 'Fox & Friends' condemning Manhattan District Alvin Bragg's indictment of the 24-year-old ex-Marine, as he told host Steven Doocy 'it defies logic that he's being prosecuted'
Blakeman said: 'People who criticize me for speaking out about Daniel Penny, I looked them in the eye and I said, 'let me ask you a question. Would you want Daniel Penny on a subway with your daughter or would you want Jordan Neely?'
He continued: 'And that shuts them up right away because people with common sense, Good Samaritans, they realize that we want people to take action when someone is doing something that could be harmful to others.'
The schizophrenic Neely had a history of arrests. Blakeman pointed out Neely had been 'arrested 42 times [and] allegedly punched a
