Daniel Penny, Jordan Williams, and the Real Reason for NYC Subway Violence
Daniel Penny was just Indicted in New York City for the “second-degree manslaughter” of Jordan Neely.
Jordan Neely was a mentally ill man who was accosting people inside an NYC Subway car on May 1st, shouting at passengers that he did not mind “going to jail or getting life in prison”, and was ‘ready to die”. This escalated into Daniel Penny, an ex-Marine in the subway car restrained Jordan in a chokehold which resulted in his death.
Daniel is being charged, hopefully, he won’t be convicted, as he was trying to stop escalation on Jordan’s part. It’s reasonable for Jordan Neely’s words to cause belief that an escalation to violence by Jordan could have happened.
And just the other day, June 13th, it happened again, a man named Jordan Williams fatally stabbed a mentally ill man named Devictor Ouedraogo on the subway. Devictor, just as Jordan Neely, was accosting passengers, ripping his shirt, and eventually started harassing a woman across from Jordan Williams. Jordan Williams stepped in to defend the woman. A fight broke out between Jordan Williams and Devictor, and Jordan was forced to stab Devictor to death in an act of self-defense.
The fault of this violence lies with New York City itself.
