According to the co-founder of GiveSendGo, a crowdfunding platform, Marine veteran Daniel Penny’s legal fees campaign related to the incident involving the death of an unpredictable homeless man on the New York City subway has become one of the platform’s most successful fundraisers ever.
“It’s the No. 2 ever on GiveSendGo,” CFO Jacob Wells told Fox News Digital. “This definitely has sparked an emotional response with many people.”
Wells noted that at one point the fund was bringing in $1,000 per minute after Penny was charged with second-degree manslaughter by Manhattan prosecutors.
The legal defense fund has already raised more than $2.7 million.
Assistant District Attorney Joshua Steinglass said Jordan Neely, who suffered from severe and untreated mental illness, was being aggressive towards other subway riders, “making threats and scaring passengers,” when Penny tackled him placed him in a chokehold, inadvertently killing Neely.
The case has caused an uproar among liberals, who insist that Penny is a murderer. Others – including a black passenger who was on the train – say Penny is a hero who kept his fellow riders safe from a deranged man.
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With that much money and fame after he (hopefully) gets acquitted he should run for office . But nowhere near
NY of course
Wow, this is going to be interesting. We are going to have a hundred lawyers in the courtroom? or with this money will they hire a liberal to set in jail instead?
Brings back memories of Bernie Goetz who shot 3 black teenagers on the Subway who he claimed threatened him. Bernie’s gun was unlicensed and he served time in jail because of it. Penny did not have a gun and only used his hands. Goetz had no money and used the Public Defenders’s office. Penny will be able to afford the best criminal defense lawyer in the country with this money. He will be found innocent.
Maybe it wasn’t that the chokehold tightened? The marine might have been careful about that.
Rather maybe it was the jerking of the train that caused the marine’s arms to hit a vulnerable spot that killed the guy.
In which case, according to Jewish law, the TRAIN should be held liable, for causing the guys arms to jerk and thus being the final clincher.