Opening arguments began on Friday morning in the case of Daniel Penny, a former Marine accused of manslaughter in the death of homeless man Jordan Neely on an uptown F train in Manhattan in 2023. Video from Neely’s final moments was shown in court and it revealed that by the time NYPD officers arrived, Neely still had a pulse.
Neely was allegedly threatening passengers on the subway when Penny and a few other men sought to restrain him and protect the other passengers. Penny put Neely in a chokehold and held him restrained as the subway came into the station. Two officers were called to the scene, arriving at 2:33 pm, and the video shows that they found a pulse.
NYPD bodycam footage reportedly shows police detected a pulse on Jordan Neely after he was put in a chokehold by Daniel Penny pic.twitter.com/5v0BdZaZND
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“I got a pulse,” an officer said. The second officer confirmed that finding. Neely was unconscious on the floor of the subway car. The officers who testified at the trial on Friday said that because Neely was a drug user, neither he nor anyone on his