The notorious leader of New York's BLM chapter denigrated the former Marine as “another victory for the KKK” after the judge in the case dropped the top charge of manslaughter in the Daniel Penny trial. It caused outrage outside.
After Friday's deadlocked jury, Judge Hoke Newsom told reporters that anyone who thinks Penny is innocent has “racism in their hearts,” according to reports. suggested at least one juror may be a “white supremacist resister” Report from the Daily Mail.
“Logically, if you select a white supremacy expert to serve on your jury, and you solidify your jury with white people, obviously you think race plays a special role in this case.” So obviously you're looking for a white supremacist to support a cause,” Newsom said. to the report.
In both cases, jurors deadlocked on the top charge in the case, second-degree manslaughter.
Newsom said the high-profile subway suffocation incident that made headlines for months was about race.
“Racism has its tentacles all over this case and the hearts of white Americans,” Newsom said.
Posted by users on X The article, which has accused Newsom of trying to intimidate jurors, who will return next week to deliberate on a lesser charge of manslaughter, received 14,000 likes. !” is attached.
“Radical BLM activist Hawk Newsom is behind the protests in front of the courthouse and is trying to intimidate the jury in the Daniel Penny trial. Why would they allow this?” User Matthew Nicole writes:
Mr. Newsom is a frequent mob inciter, once promising “bloodshed” in response to Mayor Eric Adams' increased police crackdown.
Penny, 26, was charged with manslaughter for allegedly choking Jordan Neely, 30, a mentally ill homeless man, during an encounter on a Manhattan F train in May 2023.
Neely was allegedly harassing and threatening other passengers when Penny put him in a chokehold.
On their second day of deliberations, jurors asked to reconsider a six-minute video taken by another passenger that showed Penny, a former Marine, strangling Neely.
Prosecutors reluctantly decided to drop the manslaughter charge after jurors sent two notes just hours apart, both saying the group was stuck on a manslaughter charge.
Judge Maxwell Wylie agreed to drop the charges and ordered the jury to return on Monday to deliberate on the lesser charge of manslaughter.
Jurors began deliberating Tuesday in a heated trial.
