Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg weaponized his office to carry out political persecutions.
Now the chickens have come home to roost.
And Alvin Bragg heard these two words that made it a really bad day.
Daniel Penny found not guilty
Alvin Bragg tried to jail heroic Marine Daniel Penny on manslaughter charges just because Penny acted like a good Samaritan.
Penny restrained career criminal Jordan Neely in a Manhattan subway car after Neely began acting violently and threatening the lives of other passengers.
Neely later died and Bragg charged Penny with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide to appease Black Lives Matter activists ahead of Bragg’s 2025 re-election campaign.
The jury deadlocked on the manslaughter charge.
But the Judge in the case acceded to Bragg’s illegal request to have the jury move on to the criminally negligent homicide charge even though the crux of Penny’s defense was that his actions were justified.
Since the jury was unable to reach a verdict on whether or not Penny’s actions were justified, there should have been no way they could move to deciding if Penny acted negligently in Neely’s death.
Bragg pulled this stunt because he wanted Penny convicted on some charge, any charge, and it didn’t particularly matter what it was.
Thankfully, justice was served and the jurors swiftly returned a “not guilty” verdict against Penny on the lesser charges.
Bragg’s reaction
Bragg released a statement saying, “The jury has now spoken.”
But Bragg also pulled the usually leftist card of claiming he and his prosecutors were the actual victim – and not the innocent man he tried to unjustly jail for 15 years – because his office got some angry phone calls.
“Unfortunately, over the duration of this trial, talented career prosecutors and their family members were besieged with hate and threats – on social media, by phone and over email,” Bragg’s statement added. “Simply put, this is unacceptable, and everyone, no matter your opinion on this case, should condemn it.”
New statement from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Daniel Penny acquittal
Jurors’ lengthy deliberation underscored why this case was put in front of a jury of Mr. Penny’s peers, Bragg says
“The jury has now spoken.” https://t.co/SAeSkAZjpm pic.twitter.com/NjxVdB0D1Y
— Dan Rivoli (@danrivoli) December 9, 2024
This case could also imperil Bragg’s career.
Former public defender and parents’ rights advocate Maud Maron is challenging Bragg in the upcoming election.
Maron explained to Fox News that just bringing this case against Penny was a travesty of justice.
“The NYPD Officers who initially interviewed Daniel Penny and declined to arrest him got it right,” Maron began.
“The Manhattan jury who heard all the evidence, deliberated and returned a verdict of not guilty got it right. The New Yorkers and their fellow Americans who were rooting for Daniel Penny as a hero and understood he should never have been charged in the first place got it right. The only person who got this wrong was Alvin Bragg,” Maron added.
Calling the case “reckless,” Maron said the Manhattan District Attorney should be a clear-eyed law enforcement official and not a political activist leveraging the penal code for their ideological ends.
“DA Bragg has pursued a reckless ideological agenda since his first day in office. Manhattan deserves a district attorney who will defend all New Yorkers, apply the law fairly and make Daniel Penny’s heroism unnecessary by cleaning up the subways and streets of New York City,” Maron concluded.
