Jordan Neely – latest: Protesters block NYC subway as ex-Marine Daniel Penny identified in chokehold death

Protesters flooded the NYC subway system to demonstrate against the killing of Jordan Neely, with at least seven people arrested after clashes with police.

Dozens of demonstrators leapt on to subway tracks at Lexington Avenue and East 63rd St at around 6.30pm on Saturday, forcing a Q train driver to slam on the brakes as he entered the station, according to a video posted to Twitter.

A former US Marine who placed Neely in a fatal chokehold on a New York City subway train has been identified as Daniel Penny.

The 24-year-old man has hired attorney Thomas Kenniff, who unsuccessfully ran as a Republican against Alvin Bragg for the office of Manhattan district attorney in 2021. Mr Bragg received more than 80 per cent of the vote.

Manhattan prosecutors are investigating Neely’s death after the city’s medical examiner determined the 30-year-old Michael Jackson impersonator died from the compression against his neck. His death was ruled a homicide. No arrests have been made.

The incident has sparked protests across the city demanding justice for Neely’s killing, while federal, state and local officials have condemned rhetoric surrounding homelessness and the lack of urgency from Mayor Eric Adams.

Key Points

• Passenger who placed Jordan Neely in fatal chokehold identified

• AOC: ‘Jordan was houseless and crying for food in a time when the city is raising rents and stripping services’

• Neely’s relatives speak out: ‘The system failed him’

• Chokeholds banned by most police and federal agencies

• Protesters take to New York streets to demand action over Jordan Neely death

Grand jury to decide if Marine veteran to be criminally charged in Neely’s death

07:02 , Namita Singh

A grand jury is expected to decide if Daniel Penny will be criminally charged in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely, reported ABC News.

The jury is likely to consider if the 24-year-old ex-Marine used excess force by putting Neely in a chokehold and if Neely posed a threat to other passengers.

Neely, a locally-known Michael Jackson impersonator who friends say suffered from worsening mental health, died on 1 May when a fellow rider pulled him to the floor and pinned him with a hold taught in Marine combat training.

Neely had been screaming at other passengers but hadn’t attacked anyone, according to a freelance journalist who filmed Neely’s final minutes.

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is investigating the incident. No charges have been announced yet.

Kayleigh McEnany mocks protesters marching against killing of Jordan Neely

07:00 , Bevan Hurley

Fox News anchor and former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany appeared to use racist tropes to mock demonstrators who took to the street in New York City in recent days to protest the killing of Jordan Neely, a Black homeless man who was choked to death by a white former Marine.

On Friday, after showing a clip of activists chanting, “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now” and other slogans to the beat of a drum, Ms McEnany cracked a smile and said, “Well, at least they have rhythm,” eliciting laughs from her cohosts.

The Fox anchor also condemned people who have “already made up their minds” about the killing, in which 24-year-old Daniel J Penny was filmed choking Neely for an estimated 15 minutes.

Kat Abughazaleh, an analyst at watchdog group Media Matters for America, said Ms McEnany’s rhetoric “mocks Black people protesting the killing of Jordan Neely.”

Ms McEnany didn’t know what race the protesters were and didn’t actually see the video being played on air when she made her comment, the anchor said in a statement to The Independent through a network spokesperson.

Josh Marcus has the story.

Kayleigh McEnany mocks Jordan Neely protests on Fox: ‘At least they have rhythm’

New York prosecutors investigate Jordan Neely’s death

06:00 , Bevan Hurley

Prosecutors could bring manslaughter charges against a subway passenger who choked a homeless man to death, according to legal experts, as New Yorkers plead for justice in the wake of the killing ofJordan Neely on a Manhattan F train.

A grand jury could determine whether criminal charges are brought against the man who was filmed with his arm wrapped around Neely’s neck, according to officials speaking with several New York outlets.

A law enforcement official close to the investigation told ABC News that the case is likely to go to a grand jury, which would convene to determine whether criminal charges are warranted.

Detectives have reportedly interviewed several witnesses and are looking to talk to “four or five more” who were close to the scene, according to the network.

Daniel Penny, who was filmed with his arm around Neely’s neck, has retained legal representation from attorneys with the firm Raiser and Kenniff. Mr Penny has not been charged with any crime.

Alex Woodward has more details.

Prosecutors investigate Jordan Neely’s death as ex-Marine hires Bragg’s former rival

Police ask for photographs and videos of Jordan Neely death

05:00 , Bevan Hurley

The NYPD are appealing for information, photographs, or video of Jordan Neely’s death at the Broadway-Lafayette Street subway station last Monday.

Mr Neely’s death has been ruled a homicide, and the man who placed him in a chokehold as been identified as former US Marine Daniel Penny.

Manhattan prosecutors are investigating his death.

Who was Jordan Neely?

04:00 , Bevan Hurley

After his mother was murdered when he was 14, Jordan Neely became an expert Michael Jackson impersonator, performing on the subway and in Times Square, his skills evident in a number of videos widely shared on social media in the wake of his death.

Joe Sommerlad reports.

Jordan Neely, the man killed in a NYC subway chokehold

Watch: Sean Hannity audience member ‘cheers’ NYC subway rider who killed homeless passenger

03:00 , Bevan Hurley

A Fox News audience member cheered as Sean Hannity referred to a US marine who placed a homeless passenger in a chokehold on the New York City subway.

Jordan Neely was pinned to the ground on Monday, 1 May, after apparently suffering a mental health episode and later died.

As the host played footage of the incident, he said: “After making violent threats... a mentally ill homeless guy with a long history of violent crime was, well, subdued by a bystander, a 24-year-old Marine vet.”

Sean Hannity audience member ‘cheers’ NYC subway rider who killed homeless passenger

New York was not a ‘safe city’ for Jordan Neely

02:00 , Bevan Hurley

Noah Berlatsky writes for The Independent:

“On Monday, a Black houseless man with a history of mental illness, Jordan Neely, was shouting at passengers on the New York subway. Witnesses said he did not physically assault or harm anyone. But a so-far unnamed white 24-year-old ex-Marine decided Neely needed to be subdued. He put him in a neckhold and, as bystanders watched, he choked Neely to death.

New York was not safe for Jordan Neely. Democratic State Senator Julia Salazar compared his horrific killing to a lynching – the public extermination of a Black, marginalized person in the name of restoring public order.

Though Neely was not killed by the police, his death painfully shows how mainstream rhetoric of policing, order, and safety all frame marginalized people as innately unsafe. From this viewpoint, “safety” means hiding, quelling, or even outright eliminating certain marginalized populations – Black people, homeless people, mentally ill people, poor people.

Conservatives and centrists often attack progressives for not being sufficiently concerned with public safety. “Defund the police” is caricatured as a reckless abandonment of public order. It’s attacked as an unserious, utopian endeavor by people who don’t care about the safety of (supposedly) normal people.”

New York was not safe for Jordan Neely | Voices

Greg Gutfeld blames Jordan Neely subway chokehold death on George Floyd

01:00 , Bevan Hurley

Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld has blamed the death of a homeless Black man put into a chokehold by an ex-marine in a New York City subway train, on the murder of George Floyd.

“If anybody says this is like George Floyd, no, it’s because of George Floyd,” he said on The Five on Thursday.

“Because since George Floyd, we’ve had the resulting chaos, the defunding, the emasculation of the police – egged on by The Squad, by the media, by different media outlets, except CNN. That created the pathway and a void where you saw fewer police.”

Full story below.

Fox’s Greg Gutfeld blames Jordan Neely subway chokehold death on George Floyd

13 arrested in subway protest

Monday 8 May 2023 00:00 , Bevan Hurley

Protesters flooded the NYC subway system to demonstrate against the killing of Jordan Neely, with at least seven people arrested after clashes with police.

Dozens of demonstrators leapt on to subway tracks at Lexington Avenue and East 63rd St at around 6.30pm, forcing a Q train driver to slam on the brakes as he entered the station, according to a video posted to Twitter.

Thirteen protesters were arrested on charges including resisting arrest, assault, trespass and unlawful interference of a railroad train, the NYPD said.

Who is Daniel Perry?

Sunday 7 May 2023 23:00 , Bevan Hurley

According to US Marine Corps records and a LinkedIn profile, Daniel Penny joined the Marines in 2017 after graduating from West Islip High School, a hamlet roughly 36 miles outside of Manhattan in Suffolk County.

Public records confirm Mr Penny’s former address at Marine Corps Base Camp LeJeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina. He served as an infantryman and a sergeant.

He left the Marines in 2021. He wrote in a service industry job site that his military experience helped him discover that he is “passionate” about “helping, communicating, and connecting to different people from all over the world.”

Photographs on a profile on the hiking website All Trails that appears to belong to Mr Penny also how his visits to trails across New England, Hawaii, Honduras, and North Carolina.

Alex Woodward has more details.

Everything we know about Daniel Penny, filmed fatally choking Jordan Neely

Jordan Neely struggled after his mother’s murder, family attorney says

Sunday 7 May 2023 22:30 , Bevan Hurley

Jordan Neely suffered from “demons” after his mother was murdered in 2007, a lawyer for his family says.

Attorney Donte Mills told Al Sharpton on MSNBC’s PoliticsNation that Neely had been living with his mother and her boyfriend Shawn Southerland at the time of her killing.

He learned his mother had died and tried to say goodbye to her before leaving for school, but was blocked from entering her bedroom by Southerland.

“He had to live with the fact that he left his mother dead in their home,” Mr Mills told MSNBC.

“So, that’s a lot to live with and he had troubles with that.”

Jordan Neely struggled after his mother’s murder, family attorney says

Jordan Neely wanted help. A brutal narrative about homelessness blamed him for his own death

Sunday 7 May 2023 22:00 , Bevan Hurley

On a Monday afternoon F train in Manhattan, a passenger wrestled another man to the ground and wrapped his arm around his neck for several minutes. He died moments later.

Jordan Neely’s death was recorded by another passenger and preserved in a widely shared video. The 24-year-old former US Marine who placed Neely in a chokehold was identified by his attorneys on 5 May as Daniel Penny. He was released from police custody after the incident without any charge.

His cause of death was a homicide. The 30-year-old Black man – known for his precise Michael Jackson impersonations on subway platforms while experiencing homelessness in New York City – died from the compression against his neck, according to the city’s medical examiner.

New Yorkers are no strangers to unstable or disruptive people who ride the city’s 6,500 subway cars; subway riders typically keep to themselves and ignore them.

But Neely’s death has revived volatile media narratives about New York’s homeless population, spinning an act of vigilantism to blame the person killed by it. The mayor and governor have not explicitly condemned the act of lethal violence, raising questions among New York leaders whether the city considers the life of a homeless Black man less valuable than a white stranger prepared to use deadly force.

Alex Woodward reports on how damaging rhetoric and policy failures have exposed thousands of homeless Americans to vigilante violence.

Jordan Neely’s death underscores a brutal New York narrative

Police ask for photographs and videos of Jordan Neely death

Sunday 7 May 2023 21:30 , Bevan Hurley

The NYPD are appealing for information, photographs, or video of Jordan Neely’s death at the Broadway-Lafayette Street subway station last Monday.

Mr Neely’s death has been ruled a homicide, and the man who placed him in a chokehold as been identified as former US Marine Daniel Penny.

Manhattan prosecutors are investigating his death.

Daniel Penny’s attorneys say he ‘never intended to harm’ Jordan Neely

Sunday 7 May 2023 21:00 , Bevan Hurley

Attorneys for Daniel Penny, the 24-year-old former US Marine who was captured on bystander video fatally choking Jordan Neely on a New York City subway train, have released a statement that both confirms his identity and claims that Mr Penny and others “acted to protect themselves” from the homeless street performer.

Mr Penny is represented by attorneys from Raiser and Kenniff.

“Earlier this week Daniel Penny was involved in a tragic incident ... which ended in the death of Jordan Neely. We would first like to express, on behalf of Daniel Penny, our condolences to those close to Mr Neely,” according to a statement shared withThe Independent at 7.30pm on 5 May.

Alex Woodward has the details.

Daniel Penny ‘never intended to harm’ Jordan Neely after fatal chokehold: attorneys

New York prosecutors investigate Jordan Neely’s death

Sunday 7 May 2023 20:30 , Bevan Hurley

Prosecutors could bring manslaughter charges against a subway passenger who choked a homeless man to death, according to legal experts, as New Yorkers plead for justice in the wake of the killing ofJordan Neely on a Manhattan F train.

A grand jury could determine whether criminal charges are brought against the man who was filmed with his arm wrapped around Neely’s neck, according to officials speaking with several New York outlets.

A law enforcement official close to the investigation told ABC News that the case is likely to go to a grand jury, which would convene to determine whether criminal charges are warranted.

Detectives have reportedly interviewed several witnesses and are looking to talk to “four or five more” who were close to the scene, according to the network.

Daniel Penny, who was filmed with his arm around Neely’s neck, has retained legal representation from attorneys with the firm Raiser and Kenniff. Mr Penny has not been charged with any crime.

Alex Woodward has more details.

Prosecutors investigate Jordan Neely’s death as ex-Marine hires Bragg’s former rival

New York was not a ‘safe city’ for Jordan Neely

Sunday 7 May 2023 20:00 , Bevan Hurley

Noah Berlatsky writes for The Independent:

“On Monday, a Black houseless man with a history of mental illness, Jordan Neely, was shouting at passengers on the New York subway. Witnesses said he did not physically assault or harm anyone. But a so-far unnamed white 24-year-old ex-Marine decided Neely needed to be subdued. He put him in a neckhold and, as bystanders watched, he choked Neely to death.

New York was not safe for Jordan Neely. Democratic State Senator Julia Salazar compared his horrific killing to a lynching – the public extermination of a Black, marginalized person in the name of restoring public order.

Though Neely was not killed by the police, his death painfully shows how mainstream rhetoric of policing, order, and safety all frame marginalized people as innately unsafe. From this viewpoint, “safety” means hiding, quelling, or even outright eliminating certain marginalized populations – Black people, homeless people, mentally ill people, poor people.

Conservatives and centrists often attack progressives for not being sufficiently concerned with public safety. “Defund the police” is caricatured as a reckless abandonment of public order. It’s attacked as an unserious, utopian endeavor by people who don’t care about the safety of (supposedly) normal people.”

New York was not safe for Jordan Neely | Voices

Daniel Penny’s attorneys say he ‘never intended to harm’ Jordan Neely

Sunday 7 May 2023 19:30 , Bevan Hurley

Attorneys for Daniel Penny, the 24-year-old former US Marine who was captured on bystander video fatally choking Jordan Neely on a New York City subway train, have released a statement that both confirms his identity and claims that Mr Penny and others “acted to protect themselves” from the homeless street performer.

Mr Penny is represented by attorneys from Raiser and Kenniff.

“Earlier this week Daniel Penny was involved in a tragic incident ... which ended in the death of Jordan Neely. We would first like to express, on behalf of Daniel Penny, our condolences to those close to Mr Neely,” according to a statement shared withThe Independent at 7.30pm on 5 May.

Alex Woodward has the details.

Daniel Penny ‘never intended to harm’ Jordan Neely after fatal chokehold: attorneys

Jordan Neely struggled after his mother’s murder, family attorney says

Sunday 7 May 2023 19:00 , Bevan Hurley

Jordan Neely suffered from “demons” after his mother was murdered in 2007, a lawyer for his family says.

Neely, 30, died on Monday after he was placed in a chokehold on a New York City subway train by ex-Marine Daniel Penny.

Neely was just 14 when his mother Christine Neely was strangled, stuffed in a suitcase and left on the Henry Hudson Parkway in New York by her former partner.

Family members say Jordan Neely fell into a deep depression and never fully recovered from the tragedy, and was homeless at the time of his death.

Jordan Neely struggled after his mother’s murder, family attorney says

Police ask for photographs and videos of Jordan Neely death

Sunday 7 May 2023 18:30 , Bevan Hurley

The NYPD are appealing for information, photographs, or video of Jordan Neely’s death at the Broadway-Lafayette Street subway station last Monday.

Mr Neely’s death has been ruled a homicide, and the man who placed him in a chokehold as been identified as former US Marine Daniel Penny.

Manhattan prosecutors are investigating his death.

Seven arrests as protestors jump onto subway tracks in New York

Sunday 7 May 2023 18:00 , Bevan Hurley

Protesters flooded the NYC subway system to demonstrate against the killing of Jordan Neely, with at least seven people arrested after clashes with police.

Dozens of demonstrators leapt on to subway tracks at Lexington Avenue and East 63rd St at around 6.30pm, forcing a Q train driver to slam on the brakes as he entered the station, according to a video posted to Twitter.

Jordan Neely wanted help. A brutal narrative about homelessness blamed him for his own death

Sunday 7 May 2023 17:30 , Bevan Hurley

On a Monday afternoon F train in Manhattan, a passenger wrestled another man to the ground and wrapped his arm around his neck for several minutes. He died moments later.

Jordan Neely’s death was recorded by another passenger and preserved in a widely shared video. The 24-year-old former US Marine who placed Neely in a chokehold was identified by his attorneys on 5 May as Daniel Penny. He was released from police custody after the incident without any charge.

His cause of death was a homicide. The 30-year-old Black man – known for his precise Michael Jackson impersonations on subway platforms while experiencing homelessness in New York City – died from the compression against his neck, according to the city’s medical examiner.

New Yorkers are no strangers to unstable or disruptive people who ride the city’s 6,500 subway cars; subway riders typically keep to themselves and ignore them.

But Neely’s death has revived volatile media narratives about New York’s homeless population, spinning an act of vigilantism to blame the person killed by it. The mayor and governor have not explicitly condemned the act of lethal violence, raising questions among New York leaders whether the city considers the life of a homeless Black man less valuable than a white stranger prepared to use deadly force.

Alex Woodward reports on how damaging rhetoric and policy failures have exposed thousands of homeless Americans to vigilante violence.

Jordan Neely’s death underscores a brutal New York narrative

Everything we know about Daniel Perry

Sunday 7 May 2023 17:00 , Bevan Hurley

According to US Marine Corps records and a LinkedIn profile, Daniel Penny joined the Marines in 2017 after graduating from West Islip High School, a hamlet roughly 36 miles outside of Manhattan in Suffolk County.

Public records confirm Mr Penny’s former address at Marine Corps Base Camp LeJeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina. He served as an infantryman and a sergeant.

He left the Marines in 2021. He wrote in a service industry job site that his military experience helped him discover that he is “passionate” about “helping, communicating, and connecting to different people from all over the world.”

Photographs on a profile on the hiking website All Trails that appears to belong to Mr Penny also how his visits to trails across New England, Hawaii, Honduras, and North Carolina.

Alex Woodward has the story.

Everything we know about Daniel Penny, filmed fatally choking Jordan Neely

Daniel Penny’s attorneys say he ‘never intended to harm’ Jordan Neely

Sunday 7 May 2023 16:30 , Bevan Hurley

Attorneys for Daniel Penny, the 24-year-old former US Marine who was captured on bystander video fatally choking Jordan Neely on a New York City subway train, have released a statement that both confirms his identity and claims that Mr Penny and others “acted to protect themselves” from the homeless street performer.

Mr Penny is represented by attorneys from Raiser and Kenniff.

“Earlier this week Daniel Penny was involved in a tragic incident ... which ended in the death of Jordan Neely. We would first like to express, on behalf of Daniel Penny, our condolences to those close to Mr Neely,” according to a statement shared withThe Independent at 7.30pm on 5 May.

Alex Woodward has the details.

Daniel Penny ‘never intended to harm’ Jordan Neely after fatal chokehold: attorneys

Jordan Neely ‘had demons’ after mother’s murder, family attorney says

Sunday 7 May 2023 16:05 , Bevan Hurley

A lawyer for the family of Jordan Neely says he suffered from “demons” after the murder of his mother in 2007.

Neely was just 14 when his mother Christine Neely was strangled by her boyfriend Shawn Southerland and dumped in a suitcase on the Henry Hudson Parkway.

Donte Mills told MSNBC that Neely had tried to say goodbye to his mother before leaving for school, but was blocked from entering her bedroom by Southerland.

He testified at Southerland’s murder trial at the age of 18.

“He had to live with the fact that he left his mother dead in their home,” Mr Mills told MSNBC.

“So, that’s a lot to live with and he had troubles with that. But throughout his life, he was determined to make other people happy and that’s what he did.”

Watch: Sean Hannity audience member ‘cheers’ NYC subway rider who killed homeless passenger

Sunday 7 May 2023 15:43 , Bevan Hurley

A Fox News audience member cheered as Sean Hannity referred to a US marine who placed a homeless passenger in a chokehold on the New York City subway.

Jordan Neely was pinned to the ground on Monday, 1 May, after apparently suffering a mental health episode and later died.

As the host played footage of the incident, he said: “After making violent threats... a mentally ill homeless guy with a long history of violent crime was, well, subdued by a bystander, a 24-year-old Marine vet.”

New York was not a ‘safe city’ for Jordan Neely

Sunday 7 May 2023 15:00 , Bevan Hurley

Noah Berlatsky writes for The Independent:

“On Monday, a Black houseless man with a history of mental illness, Jordan Neely, was shouting at passengers on the New York subway. Witnesses said he did not physically assault or harm anyone. But a so-far unnamed white 24-year-old ex-Marine decided Neely needed to be subdued. He put him in a neckhold and, as bystanders watched, he choked Neely to death.

New York was not safe for Jordan Neely. Democratic State Senator Julia Salazar compared his horrific killing to a lynching – the public extermination of a Black, marginalized person in the name of restoring public order.

Though Neely was not killed by the police, his death painfully shows how mainstream rhetoric of policing, order, and safety all frame marginalized people as innately unsafe. From this viewpoint, “safety” means hiding, quelling, or even outright eliminating certain marginalized populations – Black people, homeless people, mentally ill people, poor people.

Conservatives and centrists often attack progressives for not being sufficiently concerned with public safety. “Defund the police” is caricatured as a reckless abandonment of public order. It’s attacked as an unserious, utopian endeavor by people who don’t care about the safety of (supposedly) normal people.”

New York was not safe for Jordan Neely | Voices

New York prosecutors investigate Jordan Neely’s death

Sunday 7 May 2023 14:30 , Bevan Hurley

Prosecutors could bring manslaughter charges against a subway passenger who choked a homeless man to death, according to legal experts, as New Yorkers plead for justice in the wake of the killing ofJordan Neely on a Manhattan F train.

A grand jury could determine whether criminal charges are brought against the man who was filmed with his arm wrapped around Neely’s neck, according to officials speaking with several New York outlets.

A law enforcement official close to the investigation told ABC News that the case is likely to go to a grand jury, which would convene to determine whether criminal charges are warranted.

Detectives have reportedly interviewed several witnesses and are looking to talk to “four or five more” who were close to the scene, according to the network.

Daniel Penny, who was filmed with his arm around Neely’s neck, has retained legal representation from attorneys with the firm Raiser and Kenniff. Mr Penny has not been charged with any crime.

Alex Woodward has more details.

Prosecutors investigate Jordan Neely’s death as ex-Marine hires Bragg’s former rival

Seven arrests as protestors jump onto subway tracks in New York

Sunday 7 May 2023 14:09 , Bevan Hurley

Protesters flooded the NYC subway system to demonstrate against the killing of Jordan Neely, with at least seven people arrested after clashes with police.

Dozens of demonstrators leapt on to subway tracks at Lexington Avenue and East 63rd St at around 6.30pm, forcing a Q train driver to slam on the brakes as he entered the station, according to a video posted to Twitter.

Who was Jordan Neely, the man killed in a NYC subway chokehold?

Sunday 7 May 2023 13:00 , Bevan Hurley

Jordan Neely, 30, died after being held in chokehold by member of the public on a subway train on Monday afternoon, sparking angry protests and outrage.

Joe Sommerlad reports on how, after his mother was murdered, Neely had to testify at her ex-partner’s trial at the age of 18.

After experiencing homelessness, Neely became an expert Michael Jackson impersonator.

Jordan Neely, the man killed in a NYC subway chokehold

Who is Daniel Penny?

Sunday 7 May 2023 12:00 , Bevan Hurley

A former US Marine who choked Jordan Neely to death on a New York City subway car has been identified as 24-year-old Daniel James Penny.

Neely’s death was ruled by the New York medical examiner’s office as a homicide due to compression against his neck. Video footage and eyewitness accounts show a man believed to be Mr Penny with his arm wrapped around Neely for several minutes until his eyes shut and body goes limp.

New York City Police Department officers attempted CPR upon arrival on the F train at the Broadway-Lafayette platform in Manhattan on 1 May, according to an incident report reviewed by The Independent. Neely was pronounced dead at Lenox Health Greenwich Village hospital.

In a statement shared with The Independent at 7.30pm on 5 May, attorneys for Mr Penny said that when Neely “began aggressively threatening Daniel Penny and the other passengers, Daniel, with the help of others, acted to protect themselves, until help arrived.”

“Daniel never intended to harm Mr Neely and could not have foreseen his untimely death,” the statement added.

Alex Woodward has more details.

Everything we know about Daniel Penny, filmed fatally choking Jordan Neely

Fox’s Greg Gutfeld blames Jordan Neely subway chokehold death on George Floyd

Sunday 7 May 2023 11:00 , Bevan Hurley

Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld has blamed the death of a homeless Black man put into a chokehold by an ex-marine in a New York City subway train, on the murder of George Floyd.

The death of Jordan Neely, who had complained of hunger and thirst, shocked and horrified scores of Americans who blamed the incident on the dehumanisation of not just Black communities but homeless members of society as well.

Abe Asher has the story.

Fox’s Greg Gutfeld blames Jordan Neely subway chokehold death on George Floyd

Watch: Sean Hannity audience member ‘cheers’ NYC subway rider who killed homeless passenger

Sunday 7 May 2023 10:00 , Bevan Hurley

A Fox News audience member cheered as Sean Hannity referred to a US marine who placed a homeless passenger in a chokehold on the New York City subway.

Jordan Neely was pinned to the ground on Monday, 1 May, after apparently suffering a mental health episode and later died.

As the host played footage of the incident, he said: “After making violent threats... a mentally ill homeless guy with a long history of violent crime was, well, subdued by a bystander, a 24-year-old Marine vet.”

Sean Hannity audience member ‘cheers’ NYC subway rider who killed homeless passenger

New York prosecutors investigate Jordan Neely’s death as ex-Marine hires Alvin Bragg’s former rival

Sunday 7 May 2023 09:00 , Bevan Hurley

Prosecutors could bring manslaughter charges against a subway passenger who choked a homeless man to death, according to legal experts, as New Yorkers plead for justice in the wake of the killing ofJordan Neely on a Manhattan F train.

A grand jury could determine whether criminal charges are brought against the man who was filmed with his arm wrapped around Neely’s neck, according to officials speaking with several New York outlets.

A law enforcement official close to the investigation told ABC News that the case is likely to go to a grand jury, which would convene to determine whether criminal charges are warranted.

Detectives have reportedly interviewed several witnesses and are looking to talk to “four or five more” who were close to the scene, according to the network.

Daniel Penny, who was filmed with his arm around Neely’s neck, has retained legal representation from attorneys with the firm Raiser and Kenniff. Mr Penny has not been charged with any crime.

Alex Woodward has more details.

Prosecutors investigate Jordan Neely’s death as ex-Marine hires Bragg’s former rival

Jordan Neely’s mother testified at trial after his mother was murdered in 2007

Sunday 7 May 2023 08:00 , Bevan Hurley

Relatives of Jordan Neely have spoken out following the killing of the 30-year-old homeless man in an incident on the New York subway.

His father, Andrew Zachary, told The New York Daily News that Neely’s mother had been murdered by her boyfriend when he was 18 years old, back in 2007.

Christie Neely’s boyfriend was reportedly convicted in 2012 of strangling her and was sentenced to three decades behind bars.

Read my colleague Gustaf Kilander‘s full story here.

Relatives speak out after Jordan Neely subway chokehold killing

New York was not a ‘safe city’ for Jordan Neely

Sunday 7 May 2023 07:00 , Bevan Hurley

Noah Berlatsky writes for The Independent:

“On Monday, a Black houseless man with a history of mental illness, Jordan Neely, was shouting at passengers on the New York subway. Witnesses said he did not physically assault or harm anyone. But a so-far unnamed white 24-year-old ex-Marine decided Neely needed to be subdued. He put him in a neckhold and, as bystanders watched, he choked Neely to death.

New York was not safe for Jordan Neely. Democratic State Senator Julia Salazar compared his horrific killing to a lynching – the public extermination of a Black, marginalized person in the name of restoring public order.

Though Neely was not killed by the police, his death painfully shows how mainstream rhetoric of policing, order, and safety all frame marginalized people as innately unsafe. From this viewpoint, “safety” means hiding, quelling, or even outright eliminating certain marginalized populations – Black people, homeless people, mentally ill people, poor people.

Conservatives and centrists often attack progressives for not being sufficiently concerned with public safety. “Defund the police” is caricatured as a reckless abandonment of public order. It’s attacked as an unserious, utopian endeavor by people who don’t care about the safety of (supposedly) normal people.”

New York was not safe for Jordan Neely | Voices

A chokehold on the nation’s homeless

Sunday 7 May 2023 06:00 , Bevan Hurley

Washington Post columnist Theresa Vargas writes that the killing of Jordan Neely has “ignited justifiable anger, grief and outrage”.

“As of Friday much still remained uncertain, including whether the men who restrained him would face charges, but this much was clear: Neely should be alive. He needed help in that moment, and long before that moment, and he didn’t get it,” Ms Vargas wrote.

“We are bystanders every day, watching people who are unhoused succumb to a slow chokehold. Jordan Neely was a unique individual with unique skills and unique struggles. But in D.C. and other major cities across the country, there are many people like him, and we know they are dying in preventable and premature ways.”

Jordan Neely’s father on his Michael Jackson impression

Sunday 7 May 2023 05:00 , Bevan Hurley

Jordan Neely’s father Andrew Zachary told The New York Daily News that he hadn’t seen his son in four years.

But one thing stood out in his memory: Neely’s “great” impression of Michael Jackson.

“I sat him in front of the TV and showed him the Jackson 5,” Mr Zachary said. “He took on the Michael Jackson thing and he really formed it very well....

“Jordan was a good man. He was a good person. He grew up good. He always had a [temper], but he never used to hurt anyone. He wasn’t bad. He was beautiful.”

Speaking about his son performing as Michael Jackson, he said, “He looked just like him. He used to perform on the block. One day, people were loving him”.

Mr Zachary said his son was deeply affected by the murder of mother in 2007.

“He didn’t care anymore after that,” he told the Daily News. “Once his mother died ... They were very close. He loved her so much that he just lost it. After we buried her, he just wasn’t the same anymore.”

Everything we know about the man filmed choking Jordan Neely in fatal subway incident

Sunday 7 May 2023 04:00 , Bevan Hurley

Here’s a recap of what we know so far about Daniel Penny, who has been identified as the man captured in a widely shared video with his arm wrapped around Jordan Neely’s neck for several minutes.

Everything we know about Daniel Penny, filmed fatally choking Jordan Neely

Jordan Neely wanted help. A brutal narrative about homelessness blamed him for his own death

Sunday 7 May 2023 03:00 , Bevan Hurley

On a Monday afternoon F train in Manhattan, a passenger wrestled another man to the ground and wrapped his arm around his neck for several minutes. He died moments later.

Jordan Neely’s death was recorded by another passenger and preserved in a widely shared video. The 24-year-old former US Marine who placed Neely in a chokehold was identified by his attorneys on 5 May as Daniel Penny. He was released from police custody after the incident without any charge.

His cause of death was a homicide. The 30-year-old Black man – known for his precise Michael Jackson impersonations on subway platforms while experiencing homelessness in New York City – died from the compression against his neck, according to the city’s medical examiner.

New Yorkers are no strangers to unstable or disruptive people who ride the city’s 6,500 subway cars; subway riders typically keep to themselves and ignore them.

But Neely’s death has revived volatile media narratives about New York’s homeless population, spinning an act of vigilantism to blame the person killed by it. The mayor and governor have not explicitly condemned the act of lethal violence, raising questions among New York leaders whether the city considers the life of a homeless Black man less valuable than a white stranger prepared to use deadly force.

Alex Woodward reports on how damaging rhetoric and policy failures have exposed thousands of homeless Americans to vigilante violence.

Jordan Neely’s death underscores a brutal New York narrative

Kayleigh McEnany mocks protesters marching against killing of Jordan Neely

Sunday 7 May 2023 02:00 , Bevan Hurley

Fox News anchor and former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany appeared to use racist tropes to mock demonstrators who took to the street in New York City in recent days to protest the killing of Jordan Neely, a Black homeless man who was choked to death by a white former Marine.

On Friday, after showing a clip of activists chanting, “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now” and other slogans to the beat of a drum, Ms McEnany cracked a smile and said, “Well, at least they have rhythm,” eliciting laughs from her cohosts.

The Fox anchor also condemned people who have “already made up their minds” about the killing, in which 24-year-old Daniel J Penny was filmed choking Neely for an estimated 15 minutes.

Kat Abughazaleh, an analyst at watchdog group Media Matters for America, said Ms McEnany’s rhetoric “mocks Black people protesting the killing of Jordan Neely.”

Ms McEnany didn’t know what race the protesters were and didn’t actually see the video being played on air when she made her comment, the anchor said in a statement to The Independent through a network spokesperson.

Josh Marcus has the story.

Kayleigh McEnany mocks Jordan Neely protests on Fox: ‘At least they have rhythm’

Sunday 7 May 2023 01:00 , Bevan Hurley

Charges in NYC chokehold death may hinge on ‘reasonableness’

A former Manhattan assistant district attorney tells the Associated Press that a decision on whether to lay charges over Jordan Neely’s death could hinge on a “tricky” law over whether subway passengers feared for their own life or someone else’s.

“Suppose the Marine says, ‘I honest to God thought I had no choice but to save someone,’ the question would be whether an objectively reasonable person in his circumstances would have felt the same,” Mark Bederow said.

Charges in NYC chokehold death may hinge on 'reasonableness'

New York prosecutors investigate Jordan Neely’s death as ex-Marine hires Alvin Bragg’s former rival

Sunday 7 May 2023 00:30 , Bevan Hurley

Prosecutors could bring manslaughter charges against a subway passenger who choked a homeless man to death, according to legal experts, as New Yorkers plead for justice in the wake of the killing ofJordan Neely on a Manhattan F train.

A grand jury could determine whether criminal charges are brought against the man who was filmed with his arm wrapped around Neely’s neck, according to officials speaking with several New York outlets.

A law enforcement official close to the investigation told ABC News that the case is likely to go to a grand jury, which would convene to determine whether criminal charges are warranted.

Detectives have reportedly interviewed several witnesses and are looking to talk to “four or five more” who were close to the scene, according to the network.

Daniel Penny, who was filmed with his arm around Neely’s neck, has retained legal representation from attorneys with the firm Raiser and Kenniff. Mr Penny has not been charged with any crime.

Alex Woodward has more details.

Prosecutors investigate Jordan Neely’s death as ex-Marine hires Bragg’s former rival

Watch: Sean Hannity audience member ‘cheers’ NYC subway rider who killed homeless passenger

Saturday 6 May 2023 23:55 , Bevan Hurley

A Fox News audience member cheered as Sean Hannity referred to a US marine who placed a homeless passenger in a chokehold on the New York City subway.

Jordan Neely was pinned to the ground on Monday, 1 May, after apparently suffering a mental health episode and later died.

As the host played footage of the incident, he said: “After making violent threats... a mentally ill homeless guy with a long history of violent crime was, well, subdued by a bystander, a 24-year-old Marine vet.”

Sean Hannity audience member ‘cheers’ NYC subway rider who killed homeless passenger

New York was not a ‘safe city’ for Jordan Neely

Saturday 6 May 2023 23:30 , Bevan Hurley

Noah Berlatsky writes for The Independent:

“On Monday, a Black houseless man with a history of mental illness, Jordan Neely, was shouting at passengers on the New York subway. Witnesses said he did not physically assault or harm anyone. But a so-far unnamed white 24-year-old ex-Marine decided Neely needed to be subdued. He put him in a neckhold and, as bystanders watched, he choked Neely to death.

New York was not safe for Jordan Neely. Democratic State Senator Julia Salazar compared his horrific killing to a lynching – the public extermination of a Black, marginalized person in the name of restoring public order.

Though Neely was not killed by the police, his death painfully shows how mainstream rhetoric of policing, order, and safety all frame marginalized people as innately unsafe. From this viewpoint, “safety” means hiding, quelling, or even outright eliminating certain marginalized populations – Black people, homeless people, mentally ill people, poor people.

Conservatives and centrists often attack progressives for not being sufficiently concerned with public safety. “Defund the police” is caricatured as a reckless abandonment of public order. It’s attacked as an unserious, utopian endeavor by people who don’t care about the safety of (supposedly) normal people.”

New York was not safe for Jordan Neely | Voices

Who is Daniel Penny, the ex-Marine filmed choking Jordan Neely?

Saturday 6 May 2023 23:00 , Bevan Hurley

A former US Marine who choked Jordan Neely to death on a New York City subway car has been identified as 24-year-old Daniel James Penny.

Neely’s death was ruled by the New York medical examiner’s office as a homicide due to compression against his neck. Video footage and eyewitness accounts show a man believed to be Mr Penny with his arm wrapped around Neely for several minutes until his eyes shut and body goes limp.

New York City Police Department officers attempted CPR upon arrival on the F train at the Broadway-Lafayette platform in Manhattan on 1 May, according to an incident report reviewed by The Independent. Neely was pronounced dead at Lenox Health Greenwich Village hospital.

In a statement shared with The Independent at 7.30pm on 5 May, attorneys for Mr Penny said that when Neely “began aggressively threatening Daniel Penny and the other passengers, Daniel, with the help of others, acted to protect themselves, until help arrived.”

“Daniel never intended to harm Mr Neely and could not have foreseen his untimely death,” the statement added.

Alex Woodward has more details.

Everything we know about Daniel Penny, filmed fatally choking Jordan Neely

A chokehold on the nation’s homeless

Saturday 6 May 2023 22:30 , Bevan Hurley

Washington Post columnist Theresa Vargas writes that the killing of Jordan Neely has “ignited justifiable anger, grief and outrage”.

“As of Friday much still remained uncertain, including whether the men who restrained him would face charges, but this much was clear: Neely should be alive. He needed help in that moment, and long before that moment, and he didn’t get it,” Ms Vargas wrote.

“We are bystanders every day, watching people who are unhoused succumb to a slow chokehold. Jordan Neely was a unique individual with unique skills and unique struggles. But in D.C. and other major cities across the country, there are many people like him, and we know they are dying in preventable and premature ways.”

Who is Daniel Penny, the ex-Marine filmed choking Jordan Neely?

Saturday 6 May 2023 22:00 , Bevan Hurley

A former US Marine who choked Jordan Neely to death on a New York City subway car has been identified as 24-year-old Daniel James Penny.

Neely’s death was ruled by the New York medical examiner’s office as a homicide due to compression against his neck. Video footage and eyewitness accounts show a man believed to be Mr Penny with his arm wrapped around Neely for several minutes until his eyes shut and body goes limp.

New York City Police Department officers attempted CPR upon arrival on the F train at the Broadway-Lafayette platform in Manhattan on 1 May, according to an incident report reviewed by The Independent. Neely was pronounced dead at Lenox Health Greenwich Village hospital.

In a statement shared with The Independent at 7.30pm on 5 May, attorneys for Mr Penny said that when Neely “began aggressively threatening Daniel Penny and the other passengers, Daniel, with the help of others, acted to protect themselves, until help arrived.”

“Daniel never intended to harm Mr Neely and could not have foreseen his untimely death,” the statement added.

Alex Woodward has more details.

Everything we know about Daniel Penny, filmed fatally choking Jordan Neely

‘Discomfort is no excuse for violence'

Saturday 6 May 2023 21:25 , Bevan Hurley

Jamelle Bouie writes in the New York Times that nothing Jordan Neely did in the F train on Monday warranted his death.

“Why is it, in one of the wealthiest places in the history of the world, did Neely lack for a proper place to sleep and adequate mental health care? Why was he thirsty and hungry in a land of unimaginable plenty? Why, in the throes of crisis, was a subway car the only place he had to go?

There should have been something to catch Jordan Neely before he fell this far. Instead, a stranger choked him to death.

We are living through a vicious campaign of demonization and hostility toward the homeless. Networks like Fox News show endless videos of attacks by homeless people that present them as inherently unstable, violent and dangerous. Prominent voices speak of sweeping homeless people from the streets like trash, and cities have tasked the police with using force to solve the problem.”

Watch: Protesters take to New York streets to demand action over Jordan Neely death

Saturday 6 May 2023 21:00 , Bevan Hurley

Hundreds of protesters have taken to the streets again on Saturday to call for action over the death of Jordan Neely.

The “Justice for Jordan Neely” protesters carried signs saying “white bias is lethal”, “being poor is not a crime”, and “arrest that f*****”.

According to videos posted to Twitter, several protesters were arrested near Union Square after a confrontation with NYPD officers.

It’s not clear what led to the arrests.

Happening now: Police and Jordan Neely protesters clash in New York

Saturday 6 May 2023 20:54 , Bevan Hurley

NYPD officers clashed with protesters during a demonstration over the killing of Jordan Neely in Manhattan on Saturday afternoon.

A group of about 150 protesters were marching on Lafayette St towards Union Square a few minutes ago.

According to Tara Skurtu, police moved in to arrest several protesters and then tackled a man to the ground who went to their aid.

Police then formed a barricade around the protesters, Ms Skurtu said in a Twitter post.

Who was Jordan Neely, the man killed in a NYC subway chokehold?

Saturday 6 May 2023 20:25 , Bevan Hurley

Jordan Neely, 30, died after being held in chokehold by member of the public on a subway train on Monday afternoon, sparking angry protests and outrage.

Joe Sommerlad reports on how, after his mother was murdered, Neely had to testify at her ex-partner’s trial at the age of 18.

After experiencing homelessness, Neely became an expert Michael Jackson impersonator.

Jordan Neely, the man killed in a NYC subway chokehold

New Yorkers protest Jordan Neely’s killing

Saturday 6 May 2023 19:55 , Bevan Hurley

Hundreds of New Yorkers turned out to protest the killing of Jordan Neely on Friday night.

A “Justice for Jordan Neely” rally was held in Washington Square Park, the latest in a series of demonstrations held across the city since Neely’s death on Monday.

Reverend Al Sharpton spoke at a separate rally in Harlem on Saturday morning, where he called on the Manhattan District Attorney to explore criminal charges against a Marine veteran who put Neely in a chokehold.

Neely, a 30-year-old Michael Jackson impersonator who was experiencing homelessness, died on an F train on a Manhattan subway.

Daniel Penny, 24, has been identified as the man who allegedly choked Neely.

The death has been ruled a homicide. No arrests have been made.

Charges in NYC chokehold death may hinge on 'reasonableness'

Saturday 6 May 2023 19:25 , Bevan Hurley

A former Manhattan assistant district attorney tells the Associated Press that a decision on whether to lay charges over Jordan Neely’s death could hinge on a “tricky” legal requirement that they feared for their own life or someone else’s.

“Suppose the Marine says, ‘I honest to God thought I had no choice but to save someone,’ the question would be whether an objectively reasonable person in his circumstances would have felt the same,” Mark Bederow said.

Charges in NYC chokehold death may hinge on 'reasonableness'

Kayleigh McEnany mocks protesters marching against killing of Jordan Neely

Saturday 6 May 2023 18:55 , Bevan Hurley

Fox News anchor and former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany appeared to use racist tropes to mock demonstrators who took to the street in New York City in recent days to protest the killing of Jordan Neely, a Black homeless man who was choked to death by a white former Marine.

On Friday, after showing a clip of activists chanting, “What do we want? Justice. When do we want it? Now” and other slogans to the beat of a drum, Ms McEnany cracked a smile and said, “Well, at least they have rhythm,” eliciting laughs from her cohosts.

The Fox anchor also condemned people who have “already made up their minds” about the killing, in which 24-year-old Daniel J Penny was filmed choking Neely for an estimated 15 minutes.

Kat Abughazaleh, an analyst at watchdog group Media Matters for America, said Ms McEnany’s rhetoric “mocks Black people protesting the killing of Jordan Neely.”

Ms McEnany didn’t know what race the protesters were and didn’t actually see the video being played on air when she made her comment, the anchor said in a statement to The Independent through a network spokesperson.

Josh Marcus has the story.

Kayleigh McEnany mocks Jordan Neely protests on Fox: ‘At least they have rhythm’

AOC and Eric Adams trade insults over Jordan Neely death

Saturday 6 May 2023 18:25 , Bevan Hurley

Two of New York’s most prominent Democrats have engaged in a highly public spat over Jordan Neely’s death.

Mayor Eric Adams, who was elected on a platform of cracking down on crime in New York City, ripped into Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for calling Neely’s death a “murder” in a CNN interview earlier this week.

Ms Ocasio-Cortez responded by saying Mr Adams’ response felt like a “new low” for his administration.

“Not being able to clearly condemn a public murder because the victim was of a social status some would deem ‘too low’ to care about,” she wrote on Twitter.

Who is Daniel Penny, the ex-Marine filmed choking Jordan Neely?

Saturday 6 May 2023 17:55 , Bevan Hurley

A former US Marine who choked Jordan Neely to death on a New York City subway car has been identified as 24-year-old Daniel James Penny.

Neely’s death was ruled by the New York medical examiner’s office as a homicide due to compression against his neck. Video footage and eyewitness accounts show a man believed to be Mr Penny with his arm wrapped around Neely for several minutes until his eyes shut and body goes limp.

New York City Police Department officers attempted CPR upon arrival on the F train at the Broadway-Lafayette platform in Manhattan on 1 May, according to an incident report reviewed by The Independent. Neely was pronounced dead at Lenox Health Greenwich Village hospital.

In a statement shared with The Independent at 7.30pm on 5 May, attorneys for Mr Penny said that when Neely “began aggressively threatening Daniel Penny and the other passengers, Daniel, with the help of others, acted to protect themselves, until help arrived.”

“Daniel never intended to harm Mr Neely and could not have foreseen his untimely death,” the statement added.

Alex Woodward has more details.

Everything we know about Daniel Penny, filmed fatally choking Jordan Neely

'He wasn’t out to hurt nobody’

Saturday 6 May 2023 17:25 , Bevan Hurley

Jordan Neely’s father has spoken out about his son’s tragic death on a New York subway train.

Andre Zachery, 59, told the New York Daily News that his son was not violent and did not deserve to be choked to death.

“Obviously he was calling for help…He wasn’t out to hurt nobody,” Mr Zachery said.

“He was a good kid and a good man too. Something has to be done.”

US Marine Daniel Penny has been identified as the person who placed Neely in a chokehold. The death has been ruled a homicide by the medical examiner.

Mr Zachery called on investigators to prosecute Mr Penny.

“That man, he’s still walking around right now. My son didn’t deserve to die because he needed help,” he added added.

New York was not a ‘safe city’ for Jordan Neely

Saturday 6 May 2023 16:55 , Bevan Hurley

Noah Berlatsky writes for The Independent:

“On Monday, a Black houseless man with a history of mental illness, Jordan Neely, was shouting at passengers on the New York subway. Witnesses said he did not physically assault or harm anyone. But a so-far unnamed white 24-year-old ex-Marine decided Neely needed to be subdued. He put him in a neckhold and, as bystanders watched, he choked Neely to death.

New York was not safe for Jordan Neely. Democratic State Senator Julia Salazar compared his horrific killing to a lynching – the public extermination of a Black, marginalized person in the name of restoring public order.

Though Neely was not killed by the police, his death painfully shows how mainstream rhetoric of policing, order, and safety all frame marginalized people as innately unsafe. From this viewpoint, “safety” means hiding, quelling, or even outright eliminating certain marginalized populations – Black people, homeless people, mentally ill people, poor people.

Conservatives and centrists often attack progressives for not being sufficiently concerned with public safety. “Defund the police” is caricatured as a reckless abandonment of public order. It’s attacked as an unserious, utopian endeavor by people who don’t care about the safety of (supposedly) normal people.”

New York was not safe for Jordan Neely | Voices

Jordan Neely wanted help. A brutal narrative about homelessness blamed him for his own death

Saturday 6 May 2023 16:25 , Bevan Hurley

On a Monday afternoon F train in Manhattan, a passenger wrestled another man to the ground and wrapped his arm around his neck for several minutes. He died moments later.

Jordan Neely’s death was recorded by another passenger and preserved in a widely shared video. The 24-year-old former US Marine who placed Neely in a chokehold was identified by his attorneys on 5 May as Daniel Penny. He was released from police custody after the incident without any charge.

His cause of death was a homicide. The 30-year-old Black man – known for his precise Michael Jackson impersonations on subway platforms while experiencing homelessness in New York City – died from the compression against his neck, according to the city’s medical examiner.

New Yorkers are no strangers to unstable or disruptive people who ride the city’s 6,500 subway cars; subway riders typically keep to themselves and ignore them.

But Neely’s death has revived volatile media narratives about New York’s homeless population, spinning an act of vigilantism to blame the person killed by it. The mayor and governor have not explicitly condemned the act of lethal violence, raising questions among New York leaders whether the city considers the life of a homeless Black man less valuable than a white stranger prepared to use deadly force.

Alex Woodward reports on how damaging rhetoric and policy failures have exposed thousands of homeless Americans to vigilante violence.

Jordan Neely’s death underscores a brutal New York narrative

New Yorkers protest Jordan Neely’s killing

Saturday 6 May 2023 15:55 , Bevan Hurley

Hundreds of New Yorkers turned out to protest the killing of Jordan Neely on Friday night.

A “Justice for Jordan Neely” rally was held in Washington Square Park, the latest in a series of demonstrations held across the city since Neely’s death on Monday.

Reverend Al Sharpton spoke at a separate rally in Harlem on Saturday morning, where he called on the Manhattan District Attorney to explore criminal charges against a Marine veteran who put Neely in a chokehold.

Neely, a 30-year-old Michael Jackson impersonator who was experiencing homelessness, died on an F train on a Manhattan subway.

Daniel Penny, 24, has been identified as the man who allegedly choked Neely.

The death has been ruled a homicide. No arrests have been made.

Fox News anchor blames subway death on George Floyd

Saturday 6 May 2023 15:30 , Bevan Hurley

Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld has blamed the death of Jordan Neely on the murder of George Floyd.

Neely’s death on a New York subway carshocked and horrified scores of Americans who blamed the incident on the dehumanisation of not just Black communities but homeless members of society as well.

The death has also evoked comparisons with the murder of Floyd. Gutfeld, however, had a different take on Neely’s ghastly death.

“If anybody says this is like George Floyd, no, it’s because of George Floyd,” he said on The Five on Thursday.

“Because since George Floyd, we’ve had the resulting chaos, the defunding, the emasculation of the police – egged on by The Squad, by the media, by different media outlets, except CNN. That created the pathway and a void where you saw fewer police.”

Abe Asher has the story.

Fox’s Greg Gutfeld blames Jordan Neely subway chokehold death on George Floyd