Fox News contributor Sean Duffy accused Al Sharpton of raising money off of Jordan Neely’s death after Sharpton delivered the eulogy at the funeral on Friday
An eyewitness, a woman of color, has come forward to say Marine Daniel Penny acted in self-defense and everyone in the car feared for their lives. Al didn’t mention her. Duffy said:
“Where in the hell is Al Sharpton to go, ‘You know what, there’s a whole bunch of Jordan Neely’s on the subways and on the streets of New York. You know what? I’m going to go and save one of them. I’m going to go to the streets and help someone out.’
“He just is going to go to the funeral and he’ll give a speech, but he does nothing to help the people that are just like Jordan Neely. He just raises cash off Jordan Neely.
“And by the way, we live by laws. We should enforce our laws and use our court system to determine these cases as opposed to just judging people by race.”
Sharpton said: “We shouldn’t not celebrate Jordan’s life, but we should not forget how he died. We’re not here because of natural causes. A good Samaritan helps those in trouble, they don’t choke them out.
“Jordan was not annoying anyone on the train. Jordan was screaming for help. We keep criminalizing people with mental illness. They don’t need abuse, they need help.”
Correct and that burden, fairly or unfairly, falls on the family. But Jordan’s family had no idea what he was up to or where he was. One of Neely’s aunts gave an interview with ABC.
One of Neely’s aunts says he was homeless by choice.
“So did anyone in the…Do you think in the immediate family had a sense of where his life was, where he was both physically and mentally in the last year or two of his life?” asked Byron Pitts, ABC News.
“Not to my knowledge,” said Midlred E.J.B. Mahazu,” Neely’s aunt. “I wouldn’t consider Jordan being homeless. Jordan just liked to be out.
“He had a grandma and a grandpa here. He had aunts. He had uncles, right here.
“He just didn’t want to be tied up, I guess.
“He’d do what he wanted to do concerning that, so we couldn’t make him.”
“So he, his choice was to live on the street?” Pitts asked.
“I assume he did,” Mahazu said.
The eyewitness, who described herself as a woman of color, said Penny is a hero.
She said: “It was self-defense, and I believe in my heart that he saved a lot of people that day that could have gotten hurt.
“I’m sitting on a train reading my book, and, all of a sudden, I hear someone spewing this rhetoric. He said, ‘I don’t care if I have to kill an F, I will. I’ll go to jail, I’ll take a bullet.’
“I’m looking at where we are in the tube, in the sardine can, and I’m like, ‘OK, we’re in between stations.
“There’s nowhere we can go,’
“The people on that train, we were scared.
“We were scared for our lives.”
The witness said Penny only stepped in to take the deranged ex-con down when Neely started using words like “kill” and “bullet.”
She said:
“Why in the world would you take a bullet?
“Why?
“You don’t take a bullet because you’ve snatched something from somebody’s hand.
“You take a bullet for violence.
“Mr. Penny cared for people.
“That’s what he did.
“That is his crime.
“Nobody wants to kill anybody. Mr. Penny didn’t want to kill that man.
“You should have seen the way Mr. Penny looked.
“He was distraught.
“He was very, very, very visibly distressed. And he didn’t go.
“He didn’t run. He stayed,” she said.
“Jordan was not annoying someone on the train; Jordan was screaming for help. We keep criminalizing people with mental illness … They don’t need abuse, they need help.”
— Rev. Al Sharpton delivers the eulogy for Jordan Neely, the man choked to death on a NYC subway train pic.twitter.com/AGLFNLFNRx
— The Recount (@therecount) May 19, 2023
Rev. Sharpton slams Gov. DeSantis (R-FL) for calling Daniel Penny, the man who choked Jordan Neely to death, a “good Samaritan”:
“I know, Gov. DeSantis, that you’re putting Black history and LGBTQ and Latino out of the school. But I have a Bible to put in the governor’s office.” pic.twitter.com/hCuUF4JxWp
— The Recount (@therecount) May 19, 2023
