According to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York City subway system would be much safer if we simply let violent, mentally ill felons run amok threatening and assaulting passengers, and locked up anyone with the gall to intervene.
Like, say, Marine veteran Daniel Penny.
Following Penny’s acquittal Monday in the death of Jordan Neely, a mentally ill career criminal who was threatening a female passenger on a train before Neely put him in a chokehold to restrain him back in May of 2023, AOC told reporters that locking up people like Penny - and not the violent man he was protecting people from - is what will ultimately prevent “violence on our subways.”
“If we do not want violence on our subways, and the point of our justice system is a level of accountability to prevent a person who does not have remorse about taking another person’s life…I mean, even people who have engaged in manslaughter or have taken a life accidentally express remorse. So a person who has expressed no remorse indicates that there’s a risk that it may happen again,” AOC said, following the verdict. “And if we do not want to encourage that level of violence, then we should exert a level of accountability to prevent that from happening again.”
AOC: The subway will be safer if we lock up people like Daniel Penny pic.twitter.com/6R5SyndtHc
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 10, 2024
To clarify here, there is serious doubt as to whether Neely’s death was caused by Daniel Penny putting him in a headlock (during which Penny was assisted in his efforts to restrain Neely by another black man, by the way). While a medical examiner ruled Neely’s cause of death was compression to the neck, a forensic pathologist testified in court that the convicted felon could very well have died from other contributing factors, including the synthetic marijuana present in his system at the time, as well as his schizophrenia.
Related: BLM Leader Calls For Black Vigilantes After Penny Acquittal
The jury that ultimately acquitted Penny also found him “not guilty” of criminally negligent homicide after deadlocking last Friday on the laser charge of manslaughter, determining he did not intentionally or maliciously kill Neely while defending other passengers on the train.
As of mid-September of this year, murders on the NYC subway system had skyrocketed 60% year-over-year. In March, NBC4 reported a massive increase in the number of police officers being sent to monitor the railways following an uptick in violent crime, resulting in 53% more arrests compared to the year before.
In New York City overall, October of 2024 saw 30% more reported rapes and nearly 21% more reported murders than October of last year, per Newsweek.
But sure. Lock up the Daniel Pennys of the world while letting all the convicted criminals go free, for "justice." That'll fix it.
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BLM leader calls for black vigilantes after Daniel Penny's acquittal. https://t.co/WjmzV4iDiC
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