Daniel Penny, who last year was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide in the death of Jordan Neely, appears to have no interest in retreating from public life. The 26-year-old former Marine walked the runway Saturday at New York’s “Dressed to Kilt” fashion event, where he was introduced to the starry crowd as a “hero.” “The…
Daniel Penny made his debut as a model Saturday night — as he walked a New York runway in a charity fashion show dressed in a kilt. The former Marine, who gained fame when he fatally choked a crazed homeless man who was threatening a packed subway car in 2023, smiled broadly as he stepped out in the “Dressed to…
“‘This is the way the world ends,” T.S. Eliot famously wrote. “Not with a bang but a whimper.” He might have been talking about Joe Biden’s presidency. As he prepares to slink out the door, Biden’s final days in the Oval Office offer a perfect metaphor for everything that was wrong with his tenure. He…
NEW YORK (AP) — The judge in Daniel Penny’s subway chokehold manslaughter trial urged jurors to continue their deliberations on Friday morning after they told him they couldn’t reach a unanimous vote on the top charge. The jurors had sent Judge Maxwell Wiley a note stating they were “unable to come to a unanimous vote…
NEW YORK (AP) — The older sister of Daniel Penny, the former U.S. Marine charged with fatally choking a homeless man aboard a Manhattan subway, told jurors Monday that her brother was a “calm, soft-spirited person” with a reputation for honesty and integrity. Jacqueline Penny, a 27-year-old accountant, was called to the witness stand by…
NEW YORK (AP) — When Daniel Penny wrapped his arm around the neck of a homeless man on a Manhattan subway last year, the 25-year-old veteran appeared to be deploying a non-lethal chokehold long drilled into U.S. Marines. Done right, the maneuver should knock a person out without killing them, according to Joseph Caballer, a…