The original subway vigilante, Bernie Goetz, thinks the prosecution of Daniel Penny for the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard a train was “BS.”
Goetz, 77, spoke to WABC’s Frank Morano Dec. 10 about the Penny case, nearly 40 years to the day after he shot a foursome of thugs who tried to rob him on a Manhattan train.
“This is about New York, and New York I consider a BS society, and what the Penny case has in common with my case is, it’s all BS,” he told the host of the show, “The Other Side of Midnight.”
“This is what you have in some democratic states with left wing government,” added Goetz.
Goetz said the legal system should be “a truth-seeking process,” but that his case, and the case against Penny, were not.
“Here when you see lawfare, it’s not so much to protect the public but to simply impose the will of the people running the system,” Goetz added in the 30-minute interview. “That’s what my case was and that’s what you have here. It was a political trial.”