Numerous protesters leapt down to the subway tracks on the Upper East Side on Saturday to protest the homicide of Jordan Neely.
Photo by Dean Mosesat the station. An NYPD spokesperson said that 13 people, both inside and outside the station, were arrested. They were hit with charges including assault, trespassing, obstructing governmental administration, resisting arrest, and unlawful interference with a railroad train; one person was released with a summons.following Neely’s chokehold death on a Manhattan F train last week.
Penny, a former Marine from Long Island, was questioned by police but quickly released, and has not been charged.he was acting in self-defense after Neely began “aggressively threatening” Penny and other riders. They say Penny “never intended to harm Mr. Neely.” The city’s Medical Examiner has ruled Neely’s death a homicide by neck compression, and the Manhattan District Attorney’s office is weighing whether to bring charges against Penny.over the city’s treatment of the homeless and mentally ill, vigilante justice, and racial profiling. Much criticism has been leveled at officials like Mayor Eric Adams, who has declined to condemn Penny’s actions, as well as the police who let him walk and the prosecutors who have not charged him.
Neely was arrested dozens of times and frequently interfaced with social service organizations, but homeless groups say the city failed him. His own mother was also a homicide victim; she was killed by her boyfriend, stuffed in a suitcase, and dumped in the Bronx. Neely’s relatives say
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