Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg, the Soros legal hitman committed to building the Anarcho-Tyranny in New York City, might charge a hero Marine with manslaughter.
The Marine’s crime: He restrained a raging lunatic on a subway train in a choke-hold, and the lunatic criminal died.
Charges against the 24-year-old who protected straphangers from a man with a record of assault wouldn’t be the first time Bragg tried to punish the law-abiding for doing the job that Bragg and his cops won’t do.
Last year, he tried to indict a shop owner who killed a thug who tried to stab him. Wisely, Bragg retreated.
But that doesn’t mean he will in this case.
The Lunatic
Trouble for the Marine began when the homeless lunatic, one Jordan Neely, 30, began ranting and raving on the subway, the New York Post reported.
“He starts to make a speech,” freelance journalist Juan Alberto Vazquez said:
“He started screaming in an aggressive manner,” Vazquez told The Post. “He said he had no food, he had no drink, that he was tired and doesn’t care if he goes to jail. He started screaming all these things, took off his jacket, a black jacket that he had, and threw it on the ground.”
Vazquez, who was on his way to Yonkers at about 2:30 p.m. on Monday, said Neely barged into the train at the Second Avenue station — and quickly began screaming and yelling at riders, prompting many to move away.
Cops said Neely was “threatening other riders and throwing garbage at them.”
Understandably, subway riders were frightened. They should have been. The Post also disclosed the violent maniac’s criminal record.
He had been arrested on drug charges, disorderly conduct, and fare beating, the Post revealed, and was mad as a hatter.
“At the time of his death, he had a warrant out for his arrest in a November 2021 case where he was accused of assaulting a 67-year-old woman in the East Village,” the Post reported.
The New York Daily News reported that cops had arrested Neely 42 times.
From behind, the Marine put him in a chokehold, took him to the ground, and held him for about 15 minutes.
“None of us who were there thought he was in danger of dying,” Vasquez told the Post. “We thought he just passed out or ran out of air.”
The coroner ruled the death a homicide: “compression of neck (chokehold).”
Possible Charges
Though cops released the young Marine without charges, Bragg might prosecute him.
Defense lawyers told the Post the most likely charges are manslaughter and/or criminally negligent homicide. Reported the Post:
“It really depends, I suppose, on the danger that he posed to the other passengers,” Jeffrey Lichtman, the defense attorney who’s represented Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and John Gotti Jr., said of Neely, 30, who went on a boisterous rant just before he was choked out and killed on an F train.
“I think what the DA is going to do is talk to the people who were there, and they’re going to find out exactly what kind of legitimate threat the guy posed,” Lichtman told The Post.
“Some guy yelling at you on the subway — you can’t choke him out and kill him.
“The potential defendant may be saying, ‘Look, I didn’t try to kill him. I was just trying to hold him in place so he would stop harassing people,’” Lichtman continued.
For that reason, the most likely charge is involuntary manslaughter, another lawyer said. “There’s no question that the [passenger] did not intend to commit murder here,” Todd Spodek told the Post:
“So the question is, did his actions lead to the death of this strap hanger? And was he negligent to such a degree that he could be culpable for criminally negligent homicide?”
Bragg can’t charge the Marine with intentional homicide, and so he will most likely charge criminally negligent homicide, the lawyer said.
Bragg Backed Down on Store Owner
The question is whether Bragg will come to his senses and not charge the Marine.
When Bragg charged a bodega owner with second-degree murder after he killed a rampaging knife-wielding thug, public outcry forced the Soros prosecutor to back down. Video in that case clearly showed that the shop owner, a Dominican immigrant, acted in self-defense when he grabbed a knife and stabbed the assailant.
Video in this case shows something similar: A raging threat to everyone on the subway was stopped before he killed someone.
Yet this case differs in at least one significant respect. Both cases involved black assailants, but the latest involved a white Marine. Black Lives Matter and other leftists haven’t said the Marine acted out of racial malice; i.e., that he restrained Neely because he was black.
But they have said Neely died because he was black, homeless, and mentally ill.
“They murdered a Black man and his only crime was screaming on a train,” a protester told the Daily News. “This should not have happened. If you’re a native New Yorker, you’ve seen people having an outburst on a regular basis. That’s not a reason [to kill them].”
Said Hawk Newsome, a founder of the Greater New York Black Lives Matter: “The mayor is responsible because he criminalized homelessness. What message is New York City sending to the rest of the world? It’s ok to choke and kill unruly black people?”
The city comptroller falsely called the Marine a “vigilante.”
“NYC is not Gotham,” Brad Lander tweeted:
We must not become a city where a mentally ill human being can be choked to death by a vigilante without consequence. Or where the killer is justified & cheered.
Message: We must not become a city where a violent mentally ill human being is stopped from killing someone on a subway.
H/T: Ace of Spades
