“The View” co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin weigh in on Monday's acquittal of former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny, who was acquitted of manslaughter in the manslaughter of homeless man Jordan Neely. expressed dissatisfaction.
On Tuesday's episode of ABC's daytime talk show, Mr. Goldberg criticized Mr. Penny and his defense team for celebrating the defendant's acquittal at a bar, but Mr. Hostin said there was no way Mr. Neely had seriously threatened anyone on the subway. before Penny gave him a chokehold.
“And when you look at that and you look at the outcome of what happened, my question is, where is our compassion as a society?” Hostin asked, adding that justice was not served. suggested.
Penny, a 26-year-old Marine Corps veteran and architecture student, was charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide last year for suffocating Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man with schizophrenia, on the subway after he barged onto the train while shouting death threats. was indicted for. On the other hand, ingesting a type of synthetic marijuana known as K2 will get you high.
The first charge against Penny was dismissed last week, but he was found not guilty on the second charge.
Whoopi expresses her displeasure when she sees Penny going out with her defense team to a bar celebrating the verdict.
“I don’t know that I felt relieved to see them celebrating in a bar,” she began, before adding: “So you killed a man. He's dead, and maybe just dead – take the celebration home and don't do it outside. But that's just me.”
And she sympathized with Neely, saying: “And people are conflicted because he was a sick person, and now there's more information about him, but it turns out his mother was murdered, and that pushed him mentally. Maybe it's a pass. “
“There are failures everywhere here,” Goldberg added.
“There's a failure of the system…a failure on the part of the courts, a failure on the part of the hospitals, and a failure on our part, and how we respond to this.”
Later in the discussion, Hostin countered that Neely was just as much of a threat to subway passengers as was reported even before he was strangled by Penny.
“The important thing is how you explain and consent to risk, and who is at risk, right?” she began.
“Neely, a former Michael Jackson impersonator, talked about being hungry and thirsty and said he didn't care if he lived or died. There is no evidence he attacked anyone. There is no evidence that he touched anyone.”
“Thank you for this opportunity,” co-host Alyssa Farrar Griffin chimed in.
Earlier in the segment, she expressed the opinion that Penny is not the “villain” of this account.
“In this case,” Hostin repeated, acknowledging Griffin's point.
She continued: “No one on the train would have known that he had touched anyone before. Multiple parties said he had never approached anyone in a threatening manner. He testified that he did not.
The co-host then cited Whoopi's point that Neely's mother's murder destroyed her mental health.
“And his family said that's when his mental health started to decline,” Hostin said.
“Where is our compassion as a society?”
