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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Defense fund nearing 400K - yay!  This prosecution is ridiculous/pure political theater and will go nowhere.  But in the meantime, the poor kid will go through hell.  Glad he at least will not have to pay for his defense.[/quote]

Jury will convict when they are shown photos of Neely dead on the subway floor in pool of his own vomited blood, piss, and feces. Prosecution will tell jury that these results are disproportionate use of force relative to Neely’s lunatic ranting, lack of weapon, and lack of physical assault. Prosecution will play video of the crowd pleading with Neely to let go, thereby eliminating his excuse that he didn’t realize Neely was dying.

Penny is f#cked, but his lawyers will get rich. Yay?[/quote]

No they won’t. Penny's life will change and it is sad he has to go through this, but no one that listens to the firsthand accounts of people being terrorized by Neely on the train will vote to convict Penny. [/quote]

+1. I live in NYC, am a (non-white, since that apparently matters) lawyer, and have been terrorized by mentally ill people on the subway more times than I can count. I can tell you on the publicly available facts there is no way I would vote to convict here, and I hope Penny is acquitted. I really don’t think that a jury comprised of NYC residents would convict. Everyone here deals with this.[/quote]

May I ask you a question? Given your perspective, what is your take on articles like this one (assuming the paywall doesn't prevent you from reading it)? I genuinely try to understand different perspectives, but I struggle to make sense of pieces like this.

[url]https://www.thecut.com/2023/05/jordan-neely-paid-the-price-for-white-discomfort.html[/url][/quote]

That article isn't another perspective, it's race baiting trash. The comments section is absolutely disturbing, with most people being supportive of the authors racist ramblings. [/quote]

I just read that article and now I want to stab my eyes out. Can we at least acknowledge that not every crazy black man on the subway is the resurrected Jesus Christ himself? That's seven minutes of time I'm not getting back [/quote]

The article is despicable. I’m in NYC and the tone is off right from the start. The 3rd paragraph begins, “Across social media, lamenting onlookers privileged enough to think America’s racism dissolved after the protests of summer 2020 have asked how this could happen.” This is some of the crassest, most MANIPULATIVE BS - and there is no one who legitimately thought the wand was waved in early September 2020 and poof! Bye-bye racism!

My hand to all gods, there are people who want to make every unstable person very much into a resurrected Christ, where the fear one may at having her hair grabbed and yanked down to force her to stay in a train car is the problem - not the act of forcing a smaller person to interact with an out of control lunatic. F this noise. It’s the dishonesty that kills me. It just precludes all conversation if you start screaming about “lynching” in the first paragraph.[/quote]

That publication is like many other publications or web sites these days. It knows its niche and serves up what its readers want, which is a steady diet of accusations of racism and a celebration of victimhood. If you want a more objective analysis, you’d never look there in the first place.  They aren’t exactly going after the same market as, say, the BBC.[/quote]

The Cut has produced some astute perspectives. This one is horseshit through and through. But no it’s not a particularly great publication no.[/quote]

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