After several days of not commenting directly on Jordan Neely's killing after he was put in a fatal chokehold on a Manhattan subway car last week, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday that his 'heart breaks' for Neely's loss.
Manhattan subway car last week, Mayor Eric Adams said Tuesday morning that his “heart breaks” for Neely’s loss.
The mayor also noted Jordan is in fact the name of his own son, Jordan Coleman, repeating something he’d said the night before when a reporter with the news site The Cityin a Monday statement. He told the reporter he had reached out to Neely’s family “several times to give them my condolences.” The incident took place last Monday, when Neely, a 30-year-old homeless Black man who struggled with mental health issues, was reportedly screaming at passengers on a Manhattan F train that he was hungry, thirsty and “ready to die,”. One of those witnesses is Juan Alberto Vazquez — a freelance journalist who captured a nearly 4-minute video of the events leading to Neely’s death.
Penny was questioned by police after the incident, but quickly released without being charged with a crime. Penny’s attorneysinsisting Neely was acting “aggressively threatening” to him and the other passengers. They said Penny put Neely in a chokehold as a self-defense measure until the police arrived but “never intended to harm” him and “could not have foreseen his untimely death.”
on the streets and in the subways over the past several days, where demonstrators have called for Penny to be arrested and charged.by the NYPD, including of a well-known photojournalist getting cuffed outside the Broadway-Lafayette Street station Monday night.
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