Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams defended Daniel Penny during a recent radio show appearance. Adams said Penny, who is currently on trial for the death of homeless man Jordan Neely, was doing “what we should have done as a city.”
Penny subdued Neely using a headlock after Neely threatened subway riders; Neely died shortly after. Penny faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of manslaughter.
“We’re now on the subway where we’re hearing someone talking about hurting people, killing people,” Adams said on the Nov. 30 episode of “The Rob Astorino Show.” “You have someone [Penny] on that subway who was responding, doing what we should have done as a city.”
“Those passengers were afraid,” the mayor added.
“The government wasn’t there. The police weren’t there. Danny was,” Penny’s defense attorney, Steven Raiser, told jurors during his closing argument. “And when he needed help, no one was there. The government has the nerve to blame Danny because police weren’t there? Blame Danny for holding on when police weren’t there?”
Adams also criticized the city’s mental health system.
“Then you look at the complete failure of our mental health system, a complete failure from the days of closing psychiatric wards and having those who needed help just turned over into the street without giving any safety net to accept them.”
Adams also blasted the media’s coverage of the case — including the use of a misleading picture of Jordan Neely.
“It seemed like it was a young innocent child who was brutally murdered, and it gave that impression. When you look at the photo that was being used, it wanted to set up in the minds of people that we were dealing with a young innocent child that, you know, just a Michael Jackson imitator that, you know, was brutally assaulted.”
The jury is currently deliberating.
Adams has been bucking Democrat talking points lately, despite leading the biggest Blue City in the nation. Adams recently indicated he would work with incoming Border Czar Tom Homan to help remove illegal migrant criminals from the city.
Watch the clip below:
HOLY SH*T!
NYC Mayor Eric Adams just dared the left to "cancel" him over working with Border Czar Tom Homan and Trump.
"Cancel me because I'm going to protect the people of this city."
He says illegals are "committing crimes, robberies, sh*oting at police, r*ping innocent… pic.twitter.com/ByIw0FZuut
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) December 3, 2024
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