According to CCTV news, December 9 local time, the New York subway chokehold case caused the death of African American Navy veteran Daniel Penny (Daniel Penny) was acquitted on the same day. The jury found Penny not guilty of manslaughter.
On May 1, 2023, Jordan Neely, an African-American man, was strangled to death by a U.S. Navy veteran on a subway in Manhattan, New York, sparking public outrage and protests. Penny was charged with second-degree manslaughter, and the anonymous jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision on second-degree manslaughter, leading the judge to dismiss the charge.
On June 14, 2023, a grand jury in New York indicted Daniel Penny, a retired Marine, on charges that he put Jordan Neely, a mentally ill black homeless man, in a fatal chokehold on a New York subway train last month. Penny was charged with second-degree manslaughter.