Thank you sir for doing the miserable deed you were forced to do.
You saved many innocent, soft targets from a hostile actor with malicious intentions.
It's pathetic that your reward was a near prison sentence delivered by the public you served that day in the subway.
Unfortunately some shouldn't be entitled to a place in society and evil earns it's place once again.
Our world is a safer place thanks to you.

Unfortunately, the parents who abandoned this lifetime criminal with 42 arrests in the last decade will tie Penny up in court and bankrupt him with a civil suit.

Also, he still might go to prison. Only the manslaughter charge was dismissed. The jury will now deliberate on the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide, which carries a maximum sentence of up to four years in prison.

Sickening

Not guilty..

It’s the right call. Glad things turned out the way they did.

Did Penny take it too far with the chokehold? Maybe?

But as I’ve stated before, this is a government created problem that shifted criminal problem solving to citizens. Police and DA’s won’t do anything anymore and have allowed for too much criminal activity. People are fed up and willing to take matters into their own hands to keep order and safety in society. The jury agrees.

Justice for Neely? He deserves none. A repeat criminal with mental illness deserves what he got. If anyone wants to assign blame, then blame Democrats for this anti-criminalization movement and not getting him the treatment he needed. The blood is on their hands. No one else’s.


Streamer

Streamer-1000 percent

Police are not to blame for crime, its wholly the fault of socialist democratic politics that have villainized the cops. Dems to blame for every blue led crime ridden city and their insatiable thirst for virtue signaling and not saying the obvious truth on who commits crimes. Did police go too far in some cases? yeah, but individual cops should be held accountable, not the entire profession. When the Dems decided that rule of law was less important than the "restorative justice" nonsense, quality of life for the rest of us immediately deteriorated

If Neely was either in prison or in a mental health institution instead of being released onto the streets he would be alive today. What is the compassionate choice? Probably mental health institution but if not that prison is still more compassionate than leaving him out on the streets to die. Leaving people with mental health issues to fend for themselves on the streets is the least compassionate of all policies.

In the last few weeks...

Trump landslide win
Full control of congress
Trump cases all dropped
Major companies drop DEI
Cable news ratings collapse
World leaders kneel to Trump
Epic nominees for the Cabinet
Laken Riley's killer is found guilty
Daniel Perry fully acquitted in NY

Team MAGA just keeps winning!

No doubt.
Accountability is scary to the unaccountable.

Recently America got a whole lot Greater.

When did the narrowest win in recent presidential election history (roughly 1.5%) become a "landslide win?"

When the Dems moved the goal posts.

For Trump, 1.5% is a landslide!

A well articulated point you make there, Eddie.

Not so sure about that. Trump was scared enough of accountability to run for prez again to escape it.

Underrated comment.


Streamer

A landslide is when you win...

the popular vote
the electoral college
all 7 swing states
the house
the senate

and already control the supreme court, I'd call that a landslide. What do the dems even control at this point? A couple of blue states full of stupid jerks and losers.

Hope this helps.

Democrats need to seriously re-evaluate their party positions and find ways to re-connect with the American people. The identity politics, lies, condescension, eagerness for war and incessant need for control isn’t going to win over the majority people.

My aunt who is an overly dogmatic boomer voted for Harris in the election. The other day I asked her what she liked about Harris and why she would make a great president. Her answer was, “Well my parents always voted for Democrats and so do I.” I asked her if she recognizes any differences between the party of 40 years ago and currently and she said “it’s still the same party.”

I’m hopeful that as we move forward, the dogmatic boomers who vote for “democrats no matter what” will eventually die off and take their ill-informed politics with them.


Streamer

I am about halfway through a very interesting book that, so far, explains a lot about American politics. I thought I had a pretty good education on American History. But if this book is right, I missed a lot.

The thesis of the book is that North America, mostly the US but including Canada and norther Mexico, is made up of essential eight separate countries. Each founded by different people with different histories, cultures, governments, and expectations. For example, the French worked with the indigenous peoples while those from the British Isles worked to extirpate them. The Deep South, the agricultural part of it, was very slavery driven and governed by a few elites. Few other than the landed class had any say in government. The Appalacians were founded by Scots-Irish who basically governed themselves, period. New England was made up of all farmers, businessmen, artisans, and such who believed very strongly in community government. And so it went. Each was founded by folks with very different ideas and even the Revolutionary War was nowhere near a consensus action.

Long way of saying that Streamer is very correct that if the Democrats want to get back in the game they need to seriously look at history and expectations. That, and as I have heard a lot recently, they have to actually deliver programs that succeed.

I think the Right is winning a lot because people want something done to fix issues and the Left has simply not done much for folks. I am not sure the Right has done much, either, but the have promised change from the current morass.

The Nine Nations of North America by Joel Garreau? Like name the book bro. Anyway, I think this is the book you are describing. If not, check it out. Another on this subject I also like is Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America David Hackett Fischer.

American Nations by Colin Woodard. Originally written in 2011, updated in 2022. He identifies eleven Regional Cultures.

OK, reading it now. I'm like 5% of the way in. So far I recognize all the areas mentioned. Looks like he mentioned also the Nine Nations of North America by Garreau and Fischer's Albion Seed.