Leroy N. Soetoro
2023-06-30 22:13:51 UTC
https://nypost.com/2023/06/14/daniel-pennys-self-defense-case-presents-a-
dilemma-for-him-and-nyc-in-the-future/
Heres the thing about self-defense in the big city: You can be damned if
you do, but maybe dead if you dont and you can never know which in
advance.
Do you risk it?
Think of this as Daniel Pennys dilemma and New York Citys into the
foreseeable future.
Penny chose to defend himself and other F-train passengers in lower
Manhattan May 1. When it was over, a career criminal with a long history
of violent behavior was dead and the former Marine Corps sergeant was
under arrest.
On Wednesday, Penny was formally indicted on a charge of manslaughter in
the second degree; hes looking at 15 years in prison.
Any determined DA, as a former chief judge of New Yorks top court once
wryly noted, can indict a ham sandwich and Manhattans Alvin Bragg has
done just that.
Not that Penny is a ham sandwich, of course. Far from it.
But Bragg is a determined DA determined, that is, to impose a quite
peculiar view of crime and punishment on the borough, never mind the
consequences.
Hes not solely responsible for the crime spikes that have beset the city
since 2019. Circumstances, the pandemic and race-obsessed lawmakers in
Albany and on the City Council have all done their bit.
Still, when Bragg early on announced that he wasnt interested in vigorous
prosecution of anything short of bloody murder, New York noticed.
The result hasnt been a crime wave of the pre-Giuliani era sort. That
reflected the arrival of a novel new drug crack and its impact was
felt everywhere and all the time.
Today the threat is episodic and largely confined to public spaces the
subways in particular and it is driven by a refusal to enforce even
minimal behavior standards.
Encounters with the aggressively mentally ill and threatening, drug-
addicted panhandlers happen everyday; they are terrifying precisely
because they are random, potentially lethal and, of course, because when
they happen there is almost never a cop in sight.
Picture the F train at Broadway-Lafayette on May Day, when the late Jordan
Neely was threatening the lives of subway passengers and Daniel Penny put
an end to it.
Impermissible vigilantism? Or legitimate self-defense?
Well, Alvin Braggs grand jury has decided to have a Manhattan petit jury
sort all that out.
But if Mr. District Attorney and, indeed, New Yorks crew of progressive
co-conspirators set out to write a recipe for vigilante violence, they
couldnt do better than what theyve already done.
When a citys public spaces are ceded to the addled and addicted, what
happens next unpredictable violence is inevitable.
So now Daniel Penny is in the dock. But hes not the only one who belongs
there if, indeed, he even does.
Alvin Bragg needs to look in the mirror.
***@bobmcmanus.nyc
https://www.givesendgo.com/daniel_penny
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Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
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dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.
dilemma-for-him-and-nyc-in-the-future/
Heres the thing about self-defense in the big city: You can be damned if
you do, but maybe dead if you dont and you can never know which in
advance.
Do you risk it?
Think of this as Daniel Pennys dilemma and New York Citys into the
foreseeable future.
Penny chose to defend himself and other F-train passengers in lower
Manhattan May 1. When it was over, a career criminal with a long history
of violent behavior was dead and the former Marine Corps sergeant was
under arrest.
On Wednesday, Penny was formally indicted on a charge of manslaughter in
the second degree; hes looking at 15 years in prison.
Any determined DA, as a former chief judge of New Yorks top court once
wryly noted, can indict a ham sandwich and Manhattans Alvin Bragg has
done just that.
Not that Penny is a ham sandwich, of course. Far from it.
But Bragg is a determined DA determined, that is, to impose a quite
peculiar view of crime and punishment on the borough, never mind the
consequences.
Hes not solely responsible for the crime spikes that have beset the city
since 2019. Circumstances, the pandemic and race-obsessed lawmakers in
Albany and on the City Council have all done their bit.
Still, when Bragg early on announced that he wasnt interested in vigorous
prosecution of anything short of bloody murder, New York noticed.
The result hasnt been a crime wave of the pre-Giuliani era sort. That
reflected the arrival of a novel new drug crack and its impact was
felt everywhere and all the time.
Today the threat is episodic and largely confined to public spaces the
subways in particular and it is driven by a refusal to enforce even
minimal behavior standards.
Encounters with the aggressively mentally ill and threatening, drug-
addicted panhandlers happen everyday; they are terrifying precisely
because they are random, potentially lethal and, of course, because when
they happen there is almost never a cop in sight.
Picture the F train at Broadway-Lafayette on May Day, when the late Jordan
Neely was threatening the lives of subway passengers and Daniel Penny put
an end to it.
Impermissible vigilantism? Or legitimate self-defense?
Well, Alvin Braggs grand jury has decided to have a Manhattan petit jury
sort all that out.
But if Mr. District Attorney and, indeed, New Yorks crew of progressive
co-conspirators set out to write a recipe for vigilante violence, they
couldnt do better than what theyve already done.
When a citys public spaces are ceded to the addled and addicted, what
happens next unpredictable violence is inevitable.
So now Daniel Penny is in the dock. But hes not the only one who belongs
there if, indeed, he even does.
Alvin Bragg needs to look in the mirror.
***@bobmcmanus.nyc
https://www.givesendgo.com/daniel_penny
--
We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that
stupid people won't be offended.
Durham Report: The FBI has an integrity problem. It has none.
No collusion - Special Counsel Robert Swan Mueller III, March 2019.
Officially made Nancy Pelosi a two-time impeachment loser.
Thank you for cleaning up the disaster of the 2008-2017 Obama / Biden
fiasco, President Trump.
Under Barack Obama's leadership, the United States of America became the
The World According To Garp. Obama sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
President Trump boosted the economy, reduced illegal invasions, appointed
dozens of judges and three SCOTUS justices.