2024 GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley has called for a pardon for Daniel Penny, the man who inadvertently killed homeless agitator Jordan Neely by placing him in a chokehold on a New York City train.
Haley called Penny’s arrest an “injustice,” urging New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to pardon the 24-year-old Marine of his second-degree manslaughter charge.
“Military members, they are trained to defend and protect. That’s what he was trying to do,” Haley said on the Cats & Cosby radio show. “He was trying to defend the people that were on there that were being harassed by this person and that was having challenges. And now he’s being prosecuted.”
“I actually don’t think we need to just get behind Penny. I think we need to tell the governor she needs to pardon him. We need to pardon him because what he was doing was trying to protect other Americans,” she added.
Haley also accused DA Alvin Bragg of caving to demands that Penny be charged rather than wait for a grand jury to make the decision based on evidence.
“What Bragg is doing, he’s allowing criminals to run free on the street. And he’s going after citizens who are trying to protect themselves and protect people around them,” Haley said.
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She’s right, but still no chance of being president
🤝 & ditto for everyone in the January 6th מלחמת מצוה [with yesterday’s Arizona revelations, it sure was a stoles election]
This once respected governor, turned Trump sycophant, turned political hack and opportunist should STAY HOME in her own state of South Carolina and work on criminal justice issues. The murder rate in South Carolina is 13.4 per 100,000 population versus 4.8 per 100,000 in NYS.
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Dorah,
Poor baby, did someone criticize your woke hero, Alvin Bragg? Does freedom of speech only apply to kapo thugs like you?
Bragg another cultural hateful dude
The death is still under investigation. Nikki Haley should wait, along with the rest of us, until we know what happened. And Haley should know that.
huju,
That didn’t stop you from commenting based on your having “commuted by subway for 25 years”. Go lick a third rail, you kapo hypocrite!