U.S. Marine veteran pleads not guilty to charges in subway chokehold death of Black man


By Xia Lin
  • World
  • Thursday, 29 Jun 2023

NEW YORK, June 28 (Xinhua) -- Daniel Penny, the U.S. Marine veteran charged with choking homeless Black man Jordan Neely to death on a Manhattan subway in New York City, pleaded not guilty to the charges on Wednesday.

Penny, white and 24, was recorded on cellphone video holding Neely in a chokehold on an F-Train for several minutes on May 1, and arraigned on the charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.

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