By The FirstFormer Marine Daniel Penny pleaded not guilty Wednesday over his role in the chokehold death of a homeless man aboard a New York City subway train.
From the Washington Post:
Daniel Penny pleaded not guilty Wednesday morning on charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide over an incident where he placed Jordan Neely in a fatal chokehold in a New York subway train in May.
The Wednesdayarraignment wasa procedural step after the 24-year-old Marine Corps veteran was indicted by a grand jury two weeks ago in the death of Neely, a 30-year-old homeless Black man, in a minutes-long incident caught on film. Penny was previously arraigned last month on a second-degree manslaughter charge after New York’s chief medical examiner ruled that Neely’s death was a homicide.
Penny was shown entering New York Supreme Court in Manhattan just before 10 a.m. on Wednesday. After he pleaded not guilty, Penny was released on $100,000 bail.
