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An Arizona congressman plans to award the Congressional Gold Medal, Congress’s highest civilian honor, to Daniel Penny, a 26-year-old scholar presently on trial in New York on negligent murder charges for choking a homeless man on a subway prepare in 2023.
“Daniel Penny’s actions exemplify what it means to face in opposition to the grain to do proper in a world that rewards ethical cowardice,” Rep. Eli Crane, Republican of Arizona, advised Fox Information.
“Our system of ‘justice’ is fiercely corrupt, permitting degenerates to steamroll our legal guidelines and our sense of safety, whereas punishing the righteous,” Crane, a former Navy SEAL, added. “Mr. Penny bravely stood in the gap to defy this corrupt system and protect his fellow Americans. I’m immensely proud to introduce this resolution to award him with the Congressional Gold Medal to recognize his heroism.”
Draft text of the resolution claims Penny “protected women and children of the city of New York, New York, from violence on May 1, 2023” and alleges that “throughout President Biden’s term as President, local governments across various cities and States failed to adequately protect residents and their property from violent criminals.”
Penny is dealing with a prison trial in New York over the 2023 incident, wherein he held road performer Jordan Neely, 30, in a chokehold for almost six minutes, after the homeless man yelled threateningly at passengers on a Manhattan subway automotive.
Prosecutors allege Penny unnecessarily used deadly power that killed Neely, whereas the protection argues Penny’s actions have been justified and outdoors elements might clarify Neely’s dying following the chokehold.
Jury stays deadlocked on reaching verdict for 26-year-old who choked homeless man on subway (AP)
After jurors spent almost every week in deliberation with out reaching a verdict, prosecutors dismissed a extra severe cost, second-degree manslaughter, on Friday.
Penny’s actions have confirmed strongly divisive.
Critics accused the Marine Corps veteran of being a vigilante who took issues too far.
New York Metropolis public advocate Juamaane Williams beforehand advised The Impartial the general public consideration across the case had created a “narrative that devalues the life of a Black, homeless man with mental health challenges and encourages an attitude of dehumanization of New Yorkers in greatest need.”
Each conservatives and Democratic New York Metropolis mayor Eric Adams have praised Penny.
“We’re now on the subway the place we’re listening to somebody speaking about hurting folks, killing folks,” Adams stated on a radio present in November. “You will have somebody [Penny] on that subway who was responding, doing what we should always have executed as a metropolis.”
Thousands and thousands of {dollars} have been raised for Penny’s authorized protection via GiveSendGo, a crowdfunding platform standard for right-wing causes, and conservative media influencers and politicians hailed Penny as a veritable “Subway Superman,” an abnormal citizen taking again the streets in an unsafe, Democrat-led metropolis.
