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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Jennifer Peltz

Pathologist disputes finding that Marine veteran's chokehold caused subway rider's death

Subway Chokehold Death - (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

For six minutes, Jordan Neely was pinned to a subway floor in a chokehold that ended with him lying still. But that's not what killed him, a forensic pathologist testified Thursday in defense of the military-trained commuter charged with killing Neely.

A New York City medical examiner determined that Daniel Penny’s chokehold killed Neely, an agitated, mentally ill man whom Penny and some other riders found threatening.

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