The Sham Trial of Daniel Penny

Could a moment of intervention on a New York subway lead to a courtroom controversy that grips the nation? On the Ryan Samuels Show, we tackle the polarizing trial of Daniel Penny, a former Marine whose attempt to restrain Jordan Neely resulted in unintended and tragic consequences. This episode questions the necessity of the trial, scrutinizing the prosecutor's decision to press charges and pondering the potential impact of Penny's exoneration. We unravel the many layers of this case, from the jury's deadlock to the broader implications of selective prosecution, and the significant influence of public perception.

Join us as we explore the intertwining threads of race, politics, and media portrayal that complicate such legal battles, alongside a critical look at the systemic inadequacies in mental health care. We juxtapose Penny's case with another murder trial, shedding light on how personal histories and unintended actions shape legal outcomes. By critiquing the biases that pervade prosecutorial decisions, we aim to foster a discussion that goes beyond the headlines, challenging the mainstream narratives and urging for a more nuanced understanding of justice in America.

Chapters

• 0:46 Controversy Over Daniel Penny Trial
• 14:29 Selective Prosecution and Public Perception

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:46

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Speaker 2: 0:53

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Speaker 4: 1:17

Hello Patriots, welcome to the show. Tonight we're going to talk about the Daniel Penny trial. This is a sham trial that never should have been brought on. I think the majority of Americans know that and that, hopefully, he will be completely exonerated and set free. Now we don't know, because right now, the jury is deadlocked. They can't come to a unanimous decision, so it is looking like they are going to declare a mistrial. Possibly, though, the judge is now sending them back to further deliberate and go from there. Then it's up to the prosecutor, who will decide whether or not she wants to retry the case, which I'm sure she will. Uh, she's a far-left lunatic. We're going to go over that and talk about her and see exactly what the story is with that. Now, if you don't know the story, I'm you do know the story.

Speaker 4: 2:33

Um, daniel penny is a former marine. I am a former marine. He was on a subway, uh, there was a dude named george neely, um, high as a kite and running around threatening to kill people, threatening to murder people, and daniel penny, uh, per with held him until the police arrived. The guy died. Okay, um, that that is the the the story. That's what happened. Um, now daniel penny is on trial for his life uh, for attempting to be a good Samaritan. A veteran who is joins the service to protect Americans from aggressors like this, and now he may be spend the rest of his life in a New York state prison system. Possibly we will see how it turns out.

Speaker 4: 3:28

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Speaker 4: 5:14

There have been some major controversy with this. Again, the majority of people, uh, don't feel, uh, that this is warranted. This is an overzealous prosecutorial of a good samaritan who was just trying to help people on the the train, on the subway, from somebody who is completely aggressive to the point where even Mayor Adams is coming out in support of Daniel Penny, which is ironic but not surprising. So the prosecutor, her name is um dafna, your ron urine. Can we just call her urine? All right, so urine? Um is a lesbian, so what? No big deal? Um, but one of those lunatic ones. Um, a scissor sister, and that's okay. There's nothing really wrong with that. She's the one leading this charge persecuting this individual. Um, we had done a show on this a while back, um, if you remember, it was in in 2020, about a year ago, um, when the incident first occurred. Here is a video of what exactly has happened.

Speaker 1: 6:41

This video was recorded in the Broadway Lafayette subway station in Manhattan last May 1st at 2.24 pm. The woman filming, Yvette Rosario, has just witnessed a struggle in her subway car.

Speaker 5: 7:00

Oh, he's getting up, get out of here.

Speaker 4: 7:05

So you can see there are multiple people.

Speaker 1: 7:07

The man in the white T-shirt being held on the floor is Jordan Neely. Trying to hold Jordan Neely down 30 years old, homeless and diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Speaker 4: 7:19

They're trying to make this guy out to be some stupid, friggin' victim, and he's not. He was an out-of-control individual on the subway where multiple passengers are trying to stop him from hurting himself and hurting others.

Speaker 1: 7:34

Yes, he boarded the train at the previous stop. Witnesses say Neely entered the car and immediately began threatening passengers, saying he was quote ready to die and would kill a motherfucker. Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old student and former Marine from Long Island, took Neely to the ground and put him in a chokehold. He's the blonde guy there restraining Neely. These six minutes will change everything for both men. Neely will be rushed to the hospital and declared dead. Penny will go to a police precinct where his statement will kick off a legal case that's ongoing right now in Manhattan. It's one that could land him in prison for 15 years.

Speaker 4: 8:19

So that's the gist of it. Okay, there's multiple videos. There's black guys trying to help hold this individual down. They're trying to say, you know, allude to the fact that this is racially motivated and whatnot. But Jordan Neely did die and whatnot? Um, but jordan, uh, jordan neely did die.

Speaker 4: 8:45

Now, it was it as a result of, um, daniel penny's chokehold, right, and it was he. So what he used what it appears to be to me is he used a blood choke. Now, a blood choke is different than an air choke. In a blood choke, you can knock somebody out unconscious in about three to six seconds. Okay, um, it's, it's a different way to do it. Yes, it can kill them too, but as of now, the evidence is not suggesting that this individual died from the uh, blood choke. Again, narcotics in the system. There is something, there's an anomaly that something happens in police work, where it's positional asphyxiation. People get super anxious, hyped up, they're laying, they can't breathe, they just basically get so anxious that they die. Right, that's an actual thing. Now, daniel Penny put this guy in a chokehold Marine Corps chokehold. He's doing it properly I'm looking at it, and you know as a good Samaritan to try to help people on the train.

Speaker 4: 9:51

Now where he went wrong is he spoke to the cops. Do not speak to the cops, don't? Okay. Any lawyer will tell you this. I was a police officer. Keep your mouth shut, especially in a situation like this. Just say I don't answer questions, I don't answer questions, I don't answer questions. They can't arrest you for not answering questions. What you do is you talk yourself into getting arrested is what happens most of the time. So here's a news report on the interview and let's see what he did and said wrong.

Speaker 3: 10:28

A new video tonight of the police interrogation of Daniel Penny, now on trial for a deadly chokehold on the New York subway.

Speaker 1: 10:36

Iowa News reporter Josh Eider walks us through that new video.

Speaker 6: 10:40

It's a trial that touches the third rail of mental illness in York subway. Iowa News News reporter Josh Eider walks us through that new video. It's a trial that touches the third rail of mental illness in the subway. And today jurors heard Daniel Penny in his own words, watching video as he demonstrated on a detective the chokehold that killed Jordan Neely.

Speaker 7: 10:54

I kind of came like this Okay Did you apply pressure, Daniel?

Speaker 7: 10:58

No, I didn't, I just wanted to keep him from getting to people. Some guy came in, he's like whipped his jacket off and he's like I'm gonna kill everybody, I'm gonna go to prison forever. I don't care, I don't do this. At that point I looked to the person next to me. I'm like, hey, just hang on to this phone for me. I had my headphones in and took it off and just kind of like grabbed him from behind because he came in, just to like because he was acting like a lunatic, like a crazy person.

Speaker 6: 11:25

It happened in May of 23 on an uptown F train. Penny, a former Marine trained in hand-to-hand combat, says he was just trying to protect fellow strap hangers when Jordan Neely got on and started threatening people.

Speaker 7: 11:37

It looks like a sleeper. Hold to me, right? Yeah, something similar. I'm not trying to kill the guy, right? I'm just trying to de-escalate the situation.

Speaker 6: 11:47

The medical examiner ruled Neely, who was unarmed and had a history of mental illness, died from compression to the neck.

Speaker 4: 11:55

You know, they said that with George Floyd too, and we found out that that was not true.

Speaker 6: 11:59

Prosecutors say Penny wasn't wrong to place him in the hold but that he continued it for far too long, and jurors heard from the Marine who trained him In training. The prosecutor asked how long are you allowed to hold it? Answer no more than five seconds. Question if done correctly, how long before you render someone unconscious? Answer at least 13 seconds. Question how do you make a blood choke a non-lethal maneuver into a lethal maneuver? Answer well, you would hold it too long.

Speaker 7: 12:30

I'm not. I wasn't trying to like injure him, I'm just trying to keep him from hurting anybody else.

Speaker 4: 12:37

He's threatening people him from hurting anybody else. He's threatening people and so he demonstrates the chokehold on the police officer to show him oh yeah, I was cutting off his blood supply to his brain. Dude, keep your mouth shut. Don't talk to cops. They are not your friend. They are there to try to um, get a crime, get, get a collar. I mean, they're literally trying to. Even if they're not trying to, their job is to screw you over, man. I mean, that's just what it is. They're trying to find, ask you questions into any which way that you broke the law, and if you did or it's possible that you did they're going to then take it to the next level search warrants or whatever. Just keep your mouth shut, don't talk to cops.

Speaker 4: 13:22

This is coming from a former cop and any lawyer will tell you the same thing. But anyway, even though what he's saying is not that bad, this person has decided Yorin has decided to take Daniel Penny to trial and try to put him away for manslaughter. Daniel Penny to trial and try to put him away for manslaughter. Now a video was just released about her talking about another case where somebody was an armed robber who tried to arm a very old man and the guy got so scared that he died. And then she, there were manslaughter charges placed on the robber for the killing of the old man that she is now defending.

Speaker 5: 14:08

Let's just listen to what she has to say. So I'm going to give you an example of something that I did with a recent case of mine.

Speaker 4: 14:14

Just look at this person. Do you think this person is objectively reasonable and doesn't let their political ideology in the way of what they're doing?

Speaker 5: 14:26

This has never been done. In my office. I had a murder case where the defendant did not intentionally kill the victim.

Speaker 4: 14:42

He went into an ATM on the upper west side. So kind of like daniel penny, he didn't intentionally kill the victim okay and tried to rob um an individual.

Speaker 5: 14:51

Unfortunately it was an older individual, he was 86 and um. In the course of the robbery he fell to the ground and as a result, he died. This is, under the law, a felony murder, which is akin to intentional murder. However, when I first got the case, I learned I took the time to learn about the defendant and it was a strong case. So it wasn't about who done it and knew immediately who did it. I could prove it, I could take it to trial that day and win it, but it wasn't about that. It was that um the more I learned about the defendant and his life and the circumstances, the kinds of things that jorrell was talking about, um that one should take into account the trauma of that individual, the trauma of the individual when you take into account the trauma of the individual.

Speaker 4: 15:49

so somebody had a bad childhood, went out and murdered somebody. You need to take that into account when you're going to decide whether or not to persecute them for the law that they broke or the law that they didn't break. Isn't that something that maybe the jury should decide, not you as the prosecutor? If they broke the law, if there's evidence that they broke the law, you bring them to trial. I mean plain and simple, but this person? Because they had a bad life, they don't deserve to be prosecuted. But Daniel Penny didn't have a bad life, so we're going to go ahead and go after him with everything we got.

Speaker 5: 16:24

I really felt incredibly sorry for him that he had gotten to that point in his life where he felt like there was no other choice but to commit this robbery and there was no other choice but to commit this robbery.

Speaker 4: 16:39

I mean, there was another choice. Maybe you went in to the gas station on your way to rob this person and you asked them if they were hiring and worked. I don't know, that's just a question. But here is Daphne Yorin and oh, this is from OpenSecretscom. You can search anybody and how much money they donated to political candidates and see.

Speaker 4: 17:11

So here is Daphne Uren, new York County District Attorney prosecutor. She put $400 to Hillary Clinton in October of 2016. Oh, another $2,000 to Hillary Clinton in October of 2016. $5,000 into a PAC fund for the Democratic Party. $250 to Hillary Clinton. $250 to Hillary Clinton. $200 to Hillary Clinton. $2,700 to Hillary Clinton. $250 to Hillary Clinton Sorry to Kamala Harris. $260 to Mays Williams Kagan, a Democrat in New York. $1,000 to a PAC fund in 2020, and $1,000 to the Future Now fund for Texas to try to turn Texas blue, which is just a complete and utter failure decision.

Speaker 4: 18:15

But it's okay for you to go out, rob people and if they die, even when you didn't mean to kill them, you don't get charged with that. But if you go out and you stop somebody from trying to kill people after they said that they were going to kill people and then they accidentally die. You're going to get charged. Kill people and then they accidentally die? You're going to get charged. This individual is not capable to hold the office that she holds and she should be removed. 100 immediately. She should be removed. This is selective prosecution. This is a political popcorn fart because daniel penny is a white male and they're trying to make this as if, um, he is some racist vigilante, um killer. I think this is the audio for uh, mayor adams, who is a, a liberal in new york city, um talking about the daniel penny case.

Speaker 8: 19:12

Let's listen to it you can look at that on a a multi-faceted approach of everything that's wrong with the system that we're facing. One look at the photo that they used to show the victims. It seemed like it was a young, innocent child.

Speaker 4: 19:32

So you're talking about the photo that they used for Jordan Neely. It was like a photo from you know 10 years prior where he looks like this young, innocent kid. They did this with George Floyd. They've done this with Trayvon Martin. He was like 13 in the photo that they put up. That's what they do. It's a media spin to try to create some sort of sensitivity from the public about the people that they want to victimize and make a victim, even if they're truly not a victim. This is something they do all the time. Now, the problem with Mayor Adams is that he's saying this now. When he was the mayor, he probably could have put maybe a little pressure on the district attorney's office in the city that he is the mayor of to not prosecute this case. That he could have maybe pulled some strings, been more open about it publicly when it had happened, not now, when it had already gone to trial and the jury's deliberating. That's when he decides to discuss it. But let's listen to the rest of it. Who?

Speaker 8: 20:33

was, uh, brutally, uh, murdered, uh, and it gave that impression when you looked at the photo that was being used. It wanted to set up in the minds of people that we were dealing with a young, innocent child, that you know, just Michael Jackson intimidator that.

Speaker 4: 20:50

Michael Jackson intimidator. It was a Michael Jackson impersonator.

Speaker 8: 20:55

DI is even in politics you know was just brutally assaulted. Then you look at the complete failure of our mental health system, a complete failure from the days of closing psychiatric wards and having those who needed help just turned over into the street without giving any safety net to accept them. Parents reach out to me all the time and say I'm watching my child go down or my loved one, my family and we're going down this serious decline. What do we do? A system where you brought people into hospitals, gave them medicine for one day and sent them back. The young man in this case was going within our system, throughout the revolving door of our system.

Speaker 8: 21:48

Now we're on a subway where we're hearing someone talking about hurting people, killing people. You have someone on that subway who was responding, doing what we should have done as a city in a state of having a better mental health facility. Those passengers were afraid. I'm hoping that the jury will hear all the facts. Based on all the facts that's laid out, a jury of his peers will make the right decision and I don't want to prejudge that. I'm just looking at all the facts that are involved here and what we did to get to where we are and what we're seeing, because that could have easily been a case where you saw three innocent people murdered on our street two weeks ago.

Speaker 4: 22:25

Yes, yes, but again, that's perhaps something you should have said a year ago, when this whole thing was going on, and it's just a little bit late in, in my opinion, for for you to come out now and try to try to politicize this, now that you're seeing that how America voted for Donald Trump and voted against all of this nonsense, because that's essentially what happened. Now, all of a sudden, you're jumping on that train, but Mayor Adams has been pushing back against the Democrats. He did this with the sanctuary cities. He said, hey, you've got to stop sending all these illegals here. This is bankrupting us. This is not a good thing. And then, immediately when Donald Trump was elected, he ended the debit card program for the illegals, and you know what the response has been from the Democratic Party. I'll give you one guess they're charging him with crimes, they're looking at him and they're charging him with crimes. Anybody who doesn't comply gets charged with crimes. Let's look at this CBS report on the situation.

Speaker 9: 23:37

We do have breaking news out of New York Jury. Deliberations just began in the trial of Daniel Penny. He's a Marine veteran accused of killing a homeless man named Jordan Neely in a chokehold. Cbs News, new York's Christina Fon reports on closing arguments from both the defense and the prosecution.

Speaker 3: 23:55

Good afternoon. The judge is about to charge the jury and then deliberations will finally begin. Outside, you'll notice there are a lot more barricades and police officers compared to normal, likely in anticipation of possible protests that may break out once a verdict is finally reached. While wrapping up their closing arguments this morning, the prosecution reiterated that Jordan Neely died of a chokehold, not a combination of other factors like sickle cell crisis and drug use. The defense had previously argued. Prosecutors say Penny acted recklessly, gripping Neely's neck for nearly six minutes, not letting go Even after the train pulled into the station.

Speaker 4: 24:34

First of all, he was not. He may have had his arm around his neck for six minutes, but he was not applying pressure for six minutes. You would be unconscious in about ten seconds, six or seven seconds, but maybe five. You would be out pretty quick, literally. The way that it's taught is it cuts the blood flow off to your brain. So you knock somebody unconscious in seconds off to your brain. So you knock somebody unconscious in seconds. If you're trying to cut off their airway, that takes about three or four minutes and you're fighting. There's no point. Just come up, pop, cut off the blood flow to the brain. They pass out and then they're subdued.

Speaker 4: 25:14

But you don't see that in the video. You see Jordan Neely pulling and pushing for minutes and minutes and minutes, to the point where other other passengers have to come and restrain his arms. So it's it's not that this guy just was being held like that for six minutes. Nobody would be able to hold his arms because they'd just be laying on his side. He's's still fighting. So a little pressure to submit, a little bit to let go, to let him know like, hey, stop doing that or I'm going to cut the blood flow off to your brain again. That's how it's used.

Speaker 3: 25:52

And passengers were able to get off the defense. During their summations yesterday called the trial a rush to judgment, arguing media attention and protests motivated the DA's office to file those charges and asked.

Speaker 4: 26:05

That's the picture Mayor Adams is talking about.

Speaker 3: 26:07

The jury to imagine for a moment they were on that train. The trial has taken more than a month. So far, jurors have heard testimony from witnesses, police officers and medical experts. If they find Penny guilty, he could face up to 15 years in prison for the top charge of manslaughter. The judge could also choose not to sentence penny to any prison time, even if he is convicted. Reporting from lower manhattan christina fan. Cbs news new york outrageous, outrageous.

Speaker 4: 26:38

And right now, on twitter, even, even on my facebook page, you can go on it the left is praising the murder of brian thompson, praising it, saying that he deserved to die. You get, uh, what you deserve. You reap what you sow, uh. He's the CEO, by the way, that was just murdered in New York City outside of the Hilton Hotel, the CEO of United Healthcare. The left is screaming on the top of their lungs that he deserved to die. He was assassinated. The guy's still on the run. They haven't identified him. I think they may have and they just haven't released it to the public. They're trying to get him to put his guard down and acting like they don't know who he is, so they can just go and nab him in the middle of the night or whatever. But that the the justification that the ceo deserved to be murdered intentionally murdered, not accidentally murdered because he was acting out and acting a fool. Versus this side of it, where you have a known drug addict with schizophrenia, who's threatening to kill people on the train, died while being subdued by multiple people who are trying to protect themselves and other people on the train themselves and other people on the train that this person deserves to go to prison for manslaughter, while the person who killed the ceo of united healthcare deserves a medal, which is another comment that I personally got on my facebook. You go, look, look at all my posts and all these liberals are in there praising this. It's all over Twitter. They're happy that somebody killed it. We did a show on it yesterday. Go back and watch the show yesterday. Listen to the show yesterday on the podcast.

Speaker 4: 28:31

You know this is like the textbook definition of totalitarianism or fascism or communism or any kind of dictatorial regime right. Leading up to Nazi Germany and Hitler killing all the Jews right, six million Jews. Leading up to that. If you supported the Nazi party and you agreed with them on the Jewish problem which is what they called it then you could beat Jews in the street, destroy their businesses, break their windows. You wouldn't be prosecuted for any crime none. But if you oppose that and you supported the Jews, then they would come after you because you're not acting in accordance with the government, and that's the main issue. The fascism is on the left. It always has been on the left. Fascism is communism with a different face. That's it. But that is a sign of a totalitarian government, and that's what the left is. That's what the left has always been. The left is the party of totalitarianism, extreme government control and abuse of powers, and it's important that we recognize these things and call them out so that we can fix them.

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