New York Metropolis Councilwoman Vickie Paladino is urging the incoming Trump administration to launch a federal civil rights probe into the Manhattan District Legal professional’s Workplace on the heels of Marine veteran Daniel Penny’s Monday acquittal, alleging District Legal professional Alvin Bragg’s fees within the high-profile subway chokehold case, amongst others, had been politically motivated.
“It is actually easy. The Manhattan D.A. has made this racial. Now we have seen what A.G. Bragg has been able to and has tried to pursue, and I believe between Trump and now, that is the icing on the cake, with Penny… They make it a vendetta. He’s undoubtedly political. That is politicized, and I believe he must be investigated. I believe the entire DA’s workplace in Manhattan must be investigated,” she instructed “Fox & Pals First” on Tuesday.
Paladino, a Republican, has been outspoken on 26-year-old Penny’s behalf, expressing her help at a information convention final 12 months, the place she argued he had been “failed by the system” and demanded he obtain a good trial.
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Manhattan District Legal professional Alvin Bragg speaks throughout a press convention on the Louis J. Lefkowitz State Workplace Constructing on March 21, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Photographs)
Penny was charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent murder in 30-year-old homeless man Jordan Neely’s loss of life on a New York Metropolis subway after he put Neely in a chokehold for threatening different passengers.
The manslaughter cost was dropped on the prosecution’s request on Friday after jurors failed to succeed in a unanimous settlement twice.Â
Penny was acquitted of the lesser cost of criminally negligent murder on Monday, drawing outrage from Black Lives Matter activists who vowed to protest the result.
“Over this weekend, they [jurors] knew that they had been despatched in to convict him it doesn’t matter what, and I believe there have been lots of people on Friday who knew that, who sat on the jury, and I believe that is why it got here again as fast because it did,” Paladino stated.
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Vickie Paladino arrives for Daniel Penny’s trial on the Manhattan Supreme Prison Courtroom constructing in New York Metropolis on Monday, December 2, 2024. (Julia Bonavita/Fox Information Digital)
Bragg stated in a press release reacting to the acquittal, “The jury has now spoken. On the Manhattan D.A.’s Workplace, we deeply respect the jury course of, and we respect their verdict.”
The assertion continued, “Sadly, over the length of this trial, proficient profession prosecutors and their relations had been besieged with hate and threats – on social media, by telephone and over e mail. Merely put, that is unacceptable, and everybody, regardless of your opinion on this case, ought to condemn it.Â
“These are prosecutors who’ve devoted a long time of their lives to public service and to the protection of Manhattan. I’m grateful to them, in addition to to the NYPD for his or her onerous work and dedication on not solely this matter, however for all they do on behalf of New Yorkers. I additionally wish to thank Choose Wiley for presiding over this case. Lastly, I wish to thank the members of the jury who took outing of their lives to diligently consider the proof.”
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Maud Maron, an lawyer and Republican vying for Bragg’s seat, additionally criticized the progressive D.A. as she sat down with “Fox & Pals” co-host Lawrence Jones on Monday.Â
“Alvin Bragg got here into this workplace together with his day one memo, which was improper in so many alternative methods, saying that he wouldn’t prosecute, resisting arrest, saying that he would deal with sure felonies as misdemeanors, which isn’t his function,” she stated.
“He is going out. He is ending his time period now with this Daniel Penny case. That is going to be his legacy, that he tried to prosecute a younger man who has no legal report, who had served his nation honorably and who did what many individuals within the subways would hope, which is to be a courageous younger man and step up and attempt to defend individuals on the subway.”
