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Donald Trump is endlessly willing to endorse extrajudicial violence
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/15/trump-violence-daniel-penny/No paywall
https://archive.is/ppGXr
Donald Trump admits he doesn’t really know what happened in that subway car in Manhattan earlier this month, but that certainly won’t stop him from picking sides.
“Well, I think he” — that is, Daniel Penny, who put Jordan Neely in a chokehold that led to Neely’s death — “was in great danger and the other people in the car were in great danger,” Trump told The Messenger. “I haven’t seen the tape. But I think he was in danger. And it sounded like the other people in the car were in danger.”
Neely was a Black homeless man who, on the afternoon of May 1, got on the F train in Manhattan. Police say that witnesses described Neely as acting “hostile and erratic.” It’s expected that this idea will be central to Penny’s defense against a charge of second-degree manslaughter filed last week.
But Trump’s information about the case appears to have come largely from right-wing media, presumably including Fox News.
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