$2.2 million raised for ex-marine accused of strangling man on New York subway
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Give Send Go, a crowdfunding site that defines itself as Christian, has launched a campaign to pay for Daniel Penny's defense and any other civil claims that may arise against this 24 year old
Former US Marine Daniel Penny, charged with reckless homicide after strangling a homeless man in a New York subway car, has already raised $2.2 million in a popular fundraising campaign.
The campaign has been promoted by a Give Send Go, a crowdfunding site that defines itself as Christian and that was created just three days ago, as soon as its imputation was known.
The campaign notes on its website that Penny faces criminal investigation “for protecting individuals on a New York subway car from an assailant who later died,” without mentioning the fact that it was a chokehold Penny applied to that person, and that lasted several minutes, the one that caused his death.
The proceeds will go to pay for Penny's defense of this process and any other civil complaint that may arise against this 24-year-old who is called “a decorated Navy veteran.”
The events occurred on May 1, when Jordan Neely, a mentally challenged homeless New Yorker who made a living as a Michael Jackson impersonator, entered a subway car and began to yell incoherently, something relatively common in this system. New York Transportation.
Without apparently making a direct threat, Daniel Penny knocked him to the ground and applied a chokehold, helped by two more passengers who helped to immobilize the homeless man, while other passengers looked on without intervening and one dedicated himself to recording the video of the Neely's death, which went viral.
Although Neely's death brought dozens of people to the streets, there have been numerous people who in one way or another have expressed their sympathy with the aggressor, beginning with New York Mayor Eric Adams, from the right wing of the Party. Democrat, who at first specified that “there are serious mental issues at stake here.”
Later, and in the face of criticism from his own party for not having come out in defense of Neely -who was also a black man attacked by a white man-, Adams qualified his position, but all this made it clear that concern about insecurity passes for many New Yorkers above defending other rights.