Jury acquits Daniel Penny of criminally negligent homicide in Jordan Neely chokehold case. Neely's family files civil lawsuit for damages.

The acquittal of Daniel Penny on Monday for the 2023 choking death of Jordan Neely on a New York subway car is evidence of a “rigged” system, according to the deceased man’s father. “It hurt me to my core, you know, to hear something like that,” Andre Zachery told ABC News on Monday after the verdict.

Mr. Penny choked Mr. Neely in a minutes-long struggle on the floor of an F train. The case reflected the pathologies of post-pandemic New York.

The top manslaughter charge was dismissed on Friday in the 2023 death of Jordan Neely, leaving a negligent homicide charge remaining against Penny.

Daniel Penny, the former US Marine who was recently acquitted of the killing of New York City subway rider Jordan Neely, spent Saturday rubbing elbows with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect JD Vance at the annual Army-Navy football game in Maryland.

Daniel Penny was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on the NYC subway.

Daniel Penny, a former U.S. Marine who restrained a New York City subway rider with a chokehold and was this week acquitted of homicide in his death, will attend Saturday's Army-Navy football game as Vice President-elect JD Vance's guest.

Mr Penny was acquitted earlier this week of homicide after a homeless man died when he restrained him on a subway.

Jordan Neely's killer Daniel Penny joined President-elect Donald Trump and his vice-presidential candidate JD Vance on Saturday at the Army-Navy Game.

Penny was acquitted earlier this week of homicide for putting a homeless man in a fatal chokehold while on a subway.