Vice President-elect J.D. Vance invited Daniel Penny to attend Saturday’s Army-Navy game, who will join President-elect Donald Trump in his suite.
NOTUS reported Friday on the invitation, which came after Penny was acquitted on a criminally negligent homicide charge by a Manhattan jury on Tuesday.
Conservatives have cheered Penny’s acquittal, pushing that the Marine veteran was a good samaritan when he put 30-year-old Jordan Neely in a chokehold on the New York City subway.
‘Daniel’s a good guy, and New York’s mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone,’ Vance posted to X Friday. ‘I’m grateful he accepted my invitation and hope he’s able to have fun and appreciate how much his fellow citizens admire his courage.’
At the same time, liberal New Yorkers protested after the verdict, pushing that justice had not been served by allowing a white man to get away with a black man’s death.
Penny, a four-year veteran of the Marines is white, while Neely, a former street performer, who had schizophrenia and synthetic marijuana in his system, was black.
On May 1, 2023, Penny put Neely in a chokehold for about six minutes after Neely had an outburst that frightened other subway riders.
On Tuesday he sat down for a Fox Nation interview with Judge Jeanine Pirro – his first extensive comments after the acquittal – and said he was ‘not a confrontational person’ but was worried someone would get hurt when Neely entered his subway car and began acting erratically.
Daniel Penny sat down with Judge Jeanine Pirro for a Fox Nation interview on Tuesday after being acquitted on a criminally negligent homicide charge by a Manhattan jury. He was invited to attend Saturday’s Army-Navy game with Vice President-elect J.D. Vance
Vice President-elect J.D. Vance confirmed he had invited Daniel Penny to the Army-Navy game in an X post Friday morning
‘I’ll take a million court appearances and people calling me names and people hating me, just to keep one of those people from getting hurt or killed,’ Penny said.
He added ‘the guilt I would have felt if someone did get hurt, if he did do what he was threatening to do.’
Penny told Pirro he was in a ‘very vulnerable position’ as he held Neely down on the subway floor.
‘If I just let him go, I’m on my back now, he could just turn around and start doing what he said to me … killing, hurting,’ Penny said.
Along with the racial divisions, allies of Trump were skeptical of the case due to it being brought by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, whose office also charged Trump in the Stormy Daniels hush money case.
Penny called New York City officials ‘self-serving’ in his sit-down with Pirro.
‘These are their policies that clearly have not worked,’ he said, adding that ‘their egos are too big just to admit that they’re wrong.’
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