Daniel Penny is walking free! Blake Neff and Jack Posobiec react to the momentous news, joined by reporter Joseph Brucker, who was in the courtroom when the verdict was read. The crew plays the unhinged reactions from BLM radicals, and also hits the extra breaking news about the arrest of the UnitedHealth CEO shooter.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
What is the significance of Daniel Penny's acquittal?
Earlier, Thomas Kenneth, who is the defense attorney for Daniel Penny, brought up several chants that he interpreted as threats specifically against the jury. Quote, if we don't get no justice, they don't get no peace.
uh, ADA Iran seemed to dismiss the likelihood of that if, if, uh, whether she had, uh, even going to the extent, you know, saying that she had heard, she hadn't heard any of the, any of some of these slogans at all. Um, but, uh, but the judge kind of like denied the equivocation later, um, and, and, and agreed that, uh, you know, there aren't two sides to this.
So looking back over the course of the trial, you were able to observe the jury. Obviously, there's also a lot of experts there. Do you have a sense maybe what proved decisive in Newsom being able to or Neely being able to win his freedom? Is there something that really affected people?
Yeah, sure. So, I mean, there were, so there were two big things, right, that became issues of focus. One, for Daniel Penny, you know, is the question of self-defense, which the last indication that we have is that this is something that they were, the jury was fixated on. And we had testimony, emotional testimony of a mother who was like protecting her child and who had thanked Daniel.
There was a woman who thanked Daniel Penny after the event. There were there was very like there was testimony describing that we had an expert witness going through his psychiatric records and describing like just how scary. and intimidating it could be for somebody who's going through a psychiatric episode.
They really, really tried to emphasize the extent to which the subway passengers did or could have felt threatened. And Daniel Penny, in his interview with the police, says, I look, I see women, I see children, and that was his impetus. The other issue is that the prosecution had to prove the cause of death.
um was the chokehold uh the defense put up this theory we don't know obviously how to what extent the uh the jury um what uh you know felt doubtful towards the prosecution's case um but he did have uh this a sickling event an extremely rare uh uh event that is like just how rare this event is even though people have sickle cell traits
Both medical examiners, the prosecutions, and the defenses both agreed that this is an extremely rare event that inhibited the oxygen flow to Gordon Neely's cells. And also, the jury was very focused that the medical examiner gave up looking or said something to the extent of, She didn't need more information after seeing the video. So she had toxicology reports on the way.
She had other information on the way and she decided not to move forward with it or didn't need it to decide the cause of death as the chokehold, which obviously many people ran away.
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