A former U.S. Marine sergeant who killed a homeless Black man by putting him in a chokehold on the New York City subway earlier this month was charged with manslaughter on Friday in a Manhattan criminal court, hours after he surrendered to police.
A viral video showed Daniel Penny putting 30-year-old Jordan Neely in a chokehold on May 1 while they rode on an F train in Manhattan. Neely died from a compression of the neck, the medical examiner said, but Penny’s lawyers said their client did not mean to kill him.
According to witnesses, Neely, who was known to impersonate Michael
