Daniel Penny is a monster

 My fucking head is going to explode. I can't believe the way Daniel Penny is being lionized as a Good Samaritan. You can't just kill somebody. You can't take someone's life without any consequences. (Well, apparently you can, but it's WRONG.) Conservative commentators are saying the NY subways are chaos and when society breaks down, action must be taken. But killing someone without consequences is also a breakdown of society! When society allows anyone to be judge, jury, and EXECUTIONER, its going in the wrong direction.

I understand Jordan Neely was scaring people. He was obviously mentally ill. Holy shit, you don't deserve to die for being scary. How a jury could find Penny completely innocent after this is beyond me:

 

Prosecutors noted that the veteran [Penny] continued to grip Neely’s neck after the train stopped and anyone who wanted to get out could do so, after bystanders urged Penny to let go, and even after Neely had been still for nearly a minute.

What happened during the first 2 minutes and what happened during the last 2 minutes are completely different. People are responding to Penny's actions during the first 2 minutes (protecting people who were scared) and ignoring those last 2 minutes, when he ended a man's life. There is just no justifying those last 2 minutes.

I want to note that Jordan Neely was a slight person, known for doing Michael Jackson impersonations in Times Square:

Not that I think it matters, or makes it worse (choking someone to death is wrong, regardless of the victim's size, the killer's size, or anyone's race), but it should have contributed to the jury's assessment of Daniel Penny's judgement regarding excessive force - the charge was criminally negligent homicide (the more serious manslaughter charge was dropped). Holding a man smaller than yourself by the neck for 6 minutes (especially after the notorious Eric Garner case, also in NYC) is not justifiable (Eric Garner was choked for MUCH less time). I can't understand the jury's decision.