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In a victory for justice and common sense, subway hero and former Marine Daniel Penny overcame politically motived charges brought against him by far-left, pro-crime New York District Attorney Alvin Bragg. Of course, the liberal ladies of ABC’s The View were up in arms that an innocent man was found not guilty. On Tuesday, moderator Whoopi Goldberg ranted against Penny daring to celebrate his big win for justice in a bar. Meanwhile, not-so Sunny Hostin was lashing out at America for supposedly not having compassion and lying about Jordan Neely not threatening people.
“Penny’s defense was that he was de-escalating the situation, after Neely threatened other commuters. And he celebrated the verdict with his lawyer while Neely’s family was mourning the loss,” Goldberg whined.
Even though she was not the one facing the possibly of spending years behind bars for protecting people, Goldberg lectured Penny about how he should have jest went home instead of celebrating his freedom:
I don’t know. I don’t know that seeing them celebrating in a bar made me comfortable, you know? I mean, you killed a guy. The man is dead, and maybe you just — you take the celebration home. You don’t do it outside but that’s just me. Don’t listen to anything I say.
Not listening to Whoopi’s advice is the smartest thing to do.
Goldberg even declared that the jury’s not guilty verdict was a “Failure on the part of the courts.”
Later in the segment, Hostin released some hot air when she questioned, “How do we describe and subscribe danger and who is dangerous?”
She called Neely a “victim” and downplayed his threatening demeanor on the train by simply calling him “a former Michael Jackson impersonator” who “talked about being hungry and thirsty and said he didn’t care if he lived or died.”
“There is no evidence that he attacked anyone. There is no evidence that he put his hands on anyone,” Hostin argued before Alyssa Farah Griffin got her to admit “on this occasion.”
Someone talking out loud about how they don’t value their life is pretty big red flag that they’re about to mess around and they care if they find out. Try saying that on an airplane, Sunny.
Hostin completely ignored the fact that other people were helping Penny subdue Neely (with no curiosity about why they weren’t charged as accessories) and Farah Griffin’s notation that a mother had to shield her child in fear of Neely, she falsely claimed “he didn’t approach anyone in a threatening manner.”
She then lashed out America and questioned the lack of “compassion.” “And so, when you look at that and look at the result of what happened, my question is where is our compassion?! As a society, where is our compassion?!…Where is our compassion as a society?!” she screeched.
In May of 2023, after this incident happened, Hostin insanely attacked the people on the train car for not forking over all their money to Neely. “Where was the humanity of anyone that was on that train?! I would have given him money! I would have tried to give him food! I would have tried to help!” she lectured.
Joy Behar apparently woke up on Tuesday and self-identified as a self-defense and chokehold expert. She ranted about how the hold should only be used for “eight seconds” and wondered why they didn’t just sit on Neely like an egg (Click “expand”):
BEHAR: It is supposed to last eight seconds! It’s something called a blood choke that he learned in the Marines. I think that seemed – That seemed longer than eight seconds.
[Crosstalk]
HOSTIN: He did for minutes.
FARAH GRIFFIN: There were two other men with him.
BEHAR: Let me just ask this question: so, if he had let go of the guy before he died.
SARA HAINES: He probably would have survived.
BEHAR: He would have survived and the other guy was on top of him and he was holding him down.
Farah Griffin’s take was much more measured. She proclaimed Penny was not the “villain” of the story, but rather, “it is the City of New York who repeatedly fails people who could be a danger to themselves and others.”
She even admitted that she and staffers of The View have felt unsafe on the subway. “I can say I’ve been on the subway and felt unsafe. People that I’ve talked to on our staff have been on the subway and felt unsafe,” she said. She also noted that Neely had “previously assaulted a woman.”
Her “only criticism” was “have not let go sooner?” But she did add that she “wouldn’t presume to know what’s going through someone’s mind when you’re afraid and you’re trying to react in the moment.” She also feared the case would cause others “to be afraid to help their neighbors.”
Adding: “And I want to mention he is a Marine. I have a lot of dear friends who are Marines. It is in their nature to want to protect people. Did it go too far? I wish he had let go sooner. But I think that is built into who he is as a service member.”
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