In one of the most polarizing cases in recent history, former Marine Daniel Penny has received clearance in all homicide charges in the Jordan Neely case. Penny served as the prime suspect in Neely’s death,

Mr. Penny choked Mr. Neely in a minutes-long struggle on the floor of an F train. The case reflected the pathologies of post-pandemic New York.

Daniel Penny was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on the NYC subway.