The family of Jordan Neely, the Black man who died on a New York subway train after being placed in a chokehold by another passenger, criticised the rider for offering neither “an apology nor an expression of regret” in a statement released through lawyers.
The statement issued by attorneys for Daniel Penny, a white 24-year-old former US marine from Long Island, was “a character assassination and a clear example of why he believed he was entitled to take Jordan’s life”, the Neely family said in their own press release on Monday.
