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The incident where a woman burned to death aboard a Brooklyn subway train is being blamed partly on the “Daniel Penny effect.”

As previously reported, on Sunday an illegal alien since identified as 33-year-old Guatemalan national Sebastian Zapeta set a sleeping woman on fire, leading to her untimely, heinous death.

Proof has since emerged that several commuters witnessed some of the incident but stood by and did nothing.

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While sad, none of this is shocking to Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.

“There’s no doubt that people don’t want to get involved. It’s the Daniel Penny factor. It’s frozen people,” he told the New York Post. “They’re saying to themselves: ‘I don’t want to get jammed up like Penny.’”

“People should have been running over to the woman on fire. They did nothing. They said nothing. Nobody came to her aid,” he added.

Penny is the former Marine who was accused of killing a violent black homeless man, Jordan Neely, during a tragic altercation on a New York City subway that occurred in 2023.

After Neely began threatening other passengers, Penny put him in what turned out to be a fatal chokehold. Penny was subsequently charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

Not until December of 2024 was Penny finally acquitted and freed from the clutches of the criminal justice system.

Many critics fear that what Penny was forced to endure after doing the right thing and stopping Neely has disincentivized others from taking action in similar situations, including the one that happened Sunday.

“People are reticent about getting in the middle of criminal activity,”  New York Conservative Party Chair Gerard Kassar, a Brooklyn resident, explained to the Post.

“There are a lot of New York City residents who think twice about acting because they don’t think they have the support of our Democratic elected officials. They are wary of revolving door justice. This murder never should have happened in the first place,” he added.

Social media users agree. But instead of blaming the “Daniel Penny effect,” they blame the Democrat lawmakers who created it in the first place.

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Meanwhile, state Sen. Leroy Comrie, the head of a committee that oversees the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), is demanding to know how exactly the burning woman incident even happened.

“We’re asking for a breakdown of what happened, how it happened, and why it took so long [to make an arrest],” he told the Post on Monday.

“Because of the actions of previous administrations, it’s a mess out there. There are too many [mentally ill] people who should be in facilities who are out in the streets. Some of these people need to be restricted in their movements,” he added.

Zapeta has since been charged with first-degree murder and arson.

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