Jordan Neely’s father, Andre Zachary, has filed a lawsuit against Daniel Penny, the former Marine facing manslaughter charges for Neely’s death on a New York City subway.
The lawsuit, filed in New York Supreme Court on Wednesday, accuses Penny of negligent conduct, assault, and battery, asserting that these actions caused Neely’s death in May 2023.
Zachary seeks damages exceeding the jurisdictional limits of lower courts, according to the court documents. The filing coincides with the jury’s deliberation in Penny’s criminal trial, which has spanned four weeks.
Neely, 30, was killed on May 1, 2023, after Penny, 26, placed him in a chokehold for six minutes on a crowded F Train. Witnesses testified that Neely, a homeless man with a history of mental illness, had been shouting at passengers, making threatening remarks, and claiming he didn’t care if he returned to jail.
BREAKING: bombshell bodycam reveals that police detected a pulse on Jordan Neely after he was put in a chokehold by Daniel Penny.
At the behest of BLM who called it a racist killing, Soros-funded D.A. Alvin Bragg is falsely prosecuting Penny for manslaughter.
Penny is innocent. pic.twitter.com/0fxy5xtZ9x
— Dapper Detective (@Dapper_Det) November 1, 2024
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