by Andrew McCarthy at Fox News
It is a travesty that Marine veteran Daniel Penny was charged with two homicide counts by Manhattan’s elected progressive-Democratic district attorney, Alvin Bragg, over the death of Jordan Neely – who was menacing frightened subway passengers when Penny subdued him.
How fitting, then, that the conclusion of the jury trial, which began eight weeks ago, is proving to be as much a mockery of justice as the rest of the proceedings have been.
DANIEL PENNY ‘OVERCHARGED’ BY PROSECUTION IN ‘PATENTLY UNFAIR’ MOVE, ATTORNEY ARGUES
As I’ve explained a number of times, Bragg executed a couple of cynical stratagems to increase his chances of convicting Penny.
The first involves the crude racialist politics of the progressive-Democratic base that got Bragg elected in 2021. This faction looks at life as if it were a Howard Zinn revisionist history textbook, in which the world is divided into oppressor and oppressed classes, with race as the full-field theory for interpreting all phenomena.
In the real world,…
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