Thursday morning, Marine veteran Daniel Penny will be back in a Lower Manhattan courtroom as his manslaughter trial continues.
Earlier this week, the jury was shown bystander video of the moments Jordan Neely was put in a chokehold on the floor of a subway train.
Two videos shot by bystanders – one a high school student, the other a freelance journalist – offered the anonymous jury its first direct view of the chokehold at the heart of the manslaughter trial surrounding Jordan Neely’s 2023 death.
Prosecutors say the student’s video has never been made public before. Jurors also saw what prosecutors said was a fuller version of Mexican freelance journalist Juan Alberto Vázquez’s video, part of which he’d posted on social media and was widely seen.
A witness could be heard calling out to Penny in a video, saying “he’s dying” and to “let him go.”
The defense argues Penny’s actions were justified because Neely was an “unhinged” threat to others.
They said Neely lurched toward a woman with a stroller and said he “will kill,” and Penny felt he had to take action.