Marine veteran Daniel Penny is celebrating his latest acquittal for manslaughter inside a historic faculty soccer recreation suite.
Penny, who was just lately discovered not responsible within the subway chokehold loss of life of homeless man Jordan Neely, joined President-elect Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance in a set at Northwest Stadium in Maryland for the a hundred and twenty fifth Military-Navy recreation Saturday. Trump’s suite additionally hosted Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard and Home Speaker Mike Johnson.
Pictures of Penny posing alongside Trump and Vance within the suite went viral in the course of the recreation.
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A number of social media customers responded with waves of reward for Penny, hailing the marine veteran as a hero.
Cryptocurrency influencer Tiffany Fong shared the photograph, praising Penny as a hero in a publish on X.
“Donald Trump [and] JD Vance know that Daniel Penny is a hero,” Fong wrote.
Conservative X influencer and podcast host Nick Sortor known as for Penny to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom within the publish, and dozens of others agreed with him in X responses.
“Daniel Penny obtained a HERO’S WELCOME from President Trump and JD Vance on the Military Navy recreation A lot deserved!” Sortor wrote. “I really hope Trump will give Penny the Presidential Medal of Freedom.”
Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., shared the photograph with a caption that mentioned, “Frequent sense reigns once more!”
Creator Ashley St. Clair shared the photograph with a caption that steered Penny was on trial for being a White male. Penny’s chokehold of Neely, who was Black, ignited a nationwide dialog about race.
“The times of vitriol and persecution towards white males merely for being white males are over,” St. Clair wrote.
Throughout Penny’s trial, prosecutors routinely referred to the marine veteran as “the White man.”
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Penny was charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent murder for the subway chokehold loss of life of Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man with schizophrenia who barged onto the prepare shouting loss of life threats Could 1, 2023.
Witnesses testified Neely’s threats scared them greater than a typical subway outburst would, they usually have been grateful for Penny’s intervention.
Neely had a prolonged legal file, an energetic arrest warrant, a historical past of psychosis and was excessive on K2, an artificial type of marijuana that pathologists described as a stimulant.
Daniel Penny arrives at Manhattan Supreme Court docket in New York Metropolis Dec. 3, 2024. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox Information Digital)
When jurors declared that they had discovered Penny not responsible of criminally negligent murder Dec. 9, his aspect of the courtroom in New York Metropolis erupted with cheers. On the similar time, the decision prompted an offended response from Neely’s aspect, together with his father, Andre Zachary, who was escorted out of the courthouse together with a number of Black Lives Matter leaders.
Penny thanked the jurors for his or her verdict in an interview with Fox Information Wednesday.
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“I might like to present them a hug. I might prefer to thank them. Yeah, undoubtedly. It takes quite a lot of braveness, particularly on this local weather in New York Metropolis, to stay up for me,” he instructed “The 5” co-host Decide Jeanine Pirro in a preview Wednesday throughout an unique interview airing on Fox Nation.
The marine veteran mentioned if he confronted the identical state of affairs on the subway with somebody making threats and appearing erratically, he would take motion once more.
“I might not have the ability to dwell with myself if I did not do something in that state of affairs and somebody acquired harm,” he mentioned. “I might really feel responsible for the remainder of my life.”
Daniel Penny arrives at Manhattan Supreme Court docket, in New York, N.Y., Nov. 18, 2024. (Adam Grey for Fox Information Digital)
Vance was one of many first politicians to precise assist for Penny within the aftermath of the decision and mentioned he prolonged the preliminary invitation to Penny for the suite Saturday.
“Daniel’s a superb man, and New York’s mob district lawyer tried to spoil his life for having a spine,” Vance wrote on X Friday. “I’m grateful he accepted my invitation and hope he’s capable of have enjoyable and recognize how a lot his fellow residents admire his braveness.”
Penny nonetheless faces a lawsuit from Zachery, who accuses the 26-year-old of inflicting his son’s loss of life by means of “negligence, carelessness and recklessness.” Zachery is searching for unspecified damages for assault and battery, in keeping with a replica of the grievance.
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