INDICTMENT: Daniel Penny, who killed Jordan Neely

Justice prevails.

A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran who held Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold on the New York City subway, according to a source with knowledge of the case. 

Penny, 24, was indicted on second-degree manslaughter charges. The Manhattan District Attorney is expected to formally announce the grand jury’s indictment, which is under seal, on Thursday.

Penny surrendered to police last month to face a second-degree manslaughter charge. He has since been out on a $100,000 bond. 

Penny held Neely, a homeless man and street artist, in a chokehold on the subway train May 1 after Neely began shouting at passengers that he was hungry and thirsty and didn’t care whether he died. Penny forced 30-year-old Neely to the train floor and restrained him in a chokehold until he stopped breathing. A medical examiner ruled Neely’s death a homicide. 

Neely was on a New York City Department of Homeless Services list of the city’s homeless with acute needs – sometimes referred to internally as the “Top 50” list – because people on the list tend to disappear.

In response to the May interview, Neely family attorneys called Penny a “killer.”

“This is an advertisement to soften the public’s view of Daniel Penny who choked Jordan Neely to death. We never called him a White supremacist, we called him a killer,” attorneys Donte Mills and Lennon Edwards said at the time. “We want to know why he didn’t let go of that chokehold until Jordan was dead.”

Neely’s killing, part of which was captured on video that was posted online, sparked demonstrations calling for justice in his case as Manhattan prosecutors spent days deliberating how to proceed before apprehending and charging Penny.

Violence on NY Subway not only Jordan Neely case. Today (June 14th, 2023, around 5pm NYT), a Queens man was charged with stabbing and killing a man during a dispute on a New York City subway train on Tuesday night in Brooklyn, the police said.

The man, Jordan Williams, 20, stabbed the victim, Devictor Ouedraogo, 36, on a northbound J train, the police said. Officers found Mr. Ouedraogo, a Brooklyn resident, on the platform at the Marcy Avenue station in Williamsburg at around 8 p.m. with a stab wound to his chest. He was taken to NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital, where he died.

Mr. Williams was arrested and charged on Wednesday with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon. A woman who was taken into custody along with Mr. Williams was released.

Before the men’s encounter, Mr. Ouedraogo had gotten into a dispute with passengers on the train, including Mr. Williams’s girlfriend, according to law enforcement sources.

The episode came about six weeks after the fatal choking of Jordan Neely, on an F train, and again drew attention to the endemic problem of safety underground.

Although the chances of falling victim to crime in the subway are statistically low, New Yorkers have been shaken by cases of violence in recent years as the system has struggled to rebound to prepandemic levels of ridership.

In recent months, officers on the subways have detained significantly more people for breaking the law. Police statistics show there were about 4,000 arrests in the transit system from January through April of this year, compared with nearly 3,000 arrests during the same period in 2022.

Related with Afro-America like the late Jordan Neely, Pew found that 51% of Americans say they strongly or somewhat support the Black Lives Matter movement. That’s down from nearly 70% of Americans who expressed support for the movement in the aftermath of the 2020 killing of George Floyd and 56% last year.

The study indicates the decrease is mostly a result of a declining share of White adults who say they support the movement. The overall number of Black and Hispanic adults who expressed support have stayed about the same in the past year, according to Pew.

Eighty-one percent of Black adults said they support the movement. Meanwhile, 63% of Asian adults and 61% of Hispanics said the same, compared with 42% of White adults, the study shows.

When asked which words they believed describe the movement, about a third of Americans said the terms “dangerous” and “divisive” describes it extremely or very well, the study shows.

But there were significant differences among race and ethnic groups. While White adults were more likely to say the words dangerous and divisive describe the Black Lives Matter movement extremely or very well than other groups, 50% of Black adults said the word “dangerous” doesn’t describe the movement too well or at all well, the study shows.

Black, Hispanic, and Asian adults are all more likely than White adults to say the word empowering describes the movement extremely or very well, according to Pew. But overall, about a third or 34% said the same about the word divisive.

Adults younger than 30 were more likely than those in all other age groups to support the movement. The study also indicates a significant division along political ideology.

Eighty-four percent of Democrats and Democratic leaners support the Black Lives Matter movement, compared with 82% of Republicans or Republican leaners who said they oppose it, the study shows.

Americans also expressed their views on the movement’s impact on several issues. The survey shows about 32% of adults said the movement has been highly effective at bringing attention to racism against Black people. Smaller shares of US adults said the movement had a similar impact on increasing police accountability (14%), improving the lives of Black people (8%) and at improving race relations (7%), according to Pew.

These findings are based on a survey conducted online April 10 to April 16 among a randomly selected sample of 5,073 adults in the US, drawn from panels originally recruited using probability-based methods.

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