Just when you thought it couldn't get much worse: Republican politicians with presidential aspirations are now even outgunning each other on actually defending marine Daniel Penny, who publicly murdered a mentally ill Black man named Jordan Neely on the New York City Subway. Ron DeSantis urged the nation to show Daniel Penny that “America's got his back.” Nikki Haley called for New York's governor to pardon Penny. And biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy donated $10,000 to his legal defense fund https://apnews.com/article/2024-republicans-subway-chokehold-death-be39b29eef4529bf996c13ec5bcd22ef#JordanNeely#racism#fascism
"Not that more evidence was really needed, but the mask has fully slipped in the reactions to the killing of Jordan Neely on the New York City subway. We are staring at the contemporary American Right’s true face, at the essence of what defines the reactionary political project. It is a terrifying sight."
Karim Walker, an organizer and outreach specialist for the Safety Net Project at the Urban Justice Center, speaks with @THECITY about the way unhoused people and others who are experiencing mental health challenges are perceived by others.
"There's this image that homeless folks are [...] responsible for their own fate. That's not always the case. Most Americans are one paycheck away from being homeless themselves."
"For instance, after self-proclaimed white supremacist Dylann Roof killed nine Black churchgoers in a Charleston church, police officers were caught allowing him to purchase Burger King. It's as if they were congratulating him for a job well done."
"Daniel Penny, 24, was freed pending trial hours after turning himself in at a police station and appearing in court to answer criminal charges in the May 1 death of Jordan Neely, a former subway performer with a history of mental illness. Penny did not enter a plea."
"To a train full of people who would rather look away, in a city whose leaders already did, Jordan’s justifiably distressed expression of his hunger and thirst was not heard as a plea for help. It was seen as an attack on white comfort.”
I notice that the man who killed Jordan Neely is advancing the narrative that he had to protect the subway riders from a person with mental health problems.
He's saying he was justified in killing a man with mental health problems on the subway.
He's saying it's okay to kill people with mental health problems.
I notice that.
I also notice that one of the first exterminations in Germany took place in the psychiatric hospitals.
NYC subway rider who put #JordanNeely in a fatal chokehold has turned himself in to police, where he is expected to be charged with second-degree manslaughter
Manhattan prosecutors (#Bragg) said they will charge the man who used a deadly chokehold on #JordanNeely, a passenger aboard a New York City subway train, with second degree manslaughter. #legal Via AP
Understanding the world requires compiling the information most likely to be true and trying to understand multiple perspectives. I call it applying #LiberalValues. @wikipedia helps a lot with that. It's the process of how their pages are constructed.
I say all that because I don't think what happened with the death of #JordanNeely is simple. I think what they have so far is helpful. I wish we could talk about it like humans, not partisans.
"#JordanNeely #RidingWhileBlack"
On the NYC subway on Monday, 30 year-old Jordan Neely started telling passengers that he was fed up being hungry, thirsty and having no place to rest. He began to shout in his frustration, and threw his jacket on the floor.
An ex-marine named Daniel Penny then murdered him.
well, with Jordan Neely's killer and Kyle Rittenhouse going free, it appears murder is now legal in America. just don't get caught reading a book or it's jail for you!
It will never not be shocking to me how many people there are in this world who think there is any possible justification or defense for killing someone because they were yelling at you that they were hungry and thirsty.
If #DanielPenny thought this was OK to do on a train in #NYC, what did he think it was OK to do while carrying a gun overseas for the U.S. Marines? #JordanNeely say his name. https://wapo.st/3B2nGf8