After the court dismissed the highest allegation of manslaughter, the well-known leader of the BLM chapter in New York sparked a fervor outside the Daniel Penny trial by slurring the former Marine and yelling that the Klan had won another win.
Hawk Newsome told reporters that anyone who thinks Penny is innocent has racism in their heart after the jury deadlocked on Friday, according to the Daily Mail. He also implied that at least one juror in Penny’s case might be a white supremacist holdout.
“Obviously, you think race has a specific role in this case and obviously you are looking for that one white supremacist hold out if you pick a white supremacist jury specialist and pack a jury with white people,” Newsome added, according to the newspaper.
On the accusation of second-degree manslaughter, the most serious charge in the case, the jurors were tied both times.
According to Newsome, race is at the center of the well-publicized tube choke that has dominated news for months.
According to Newsome, racism is pervasive in this case and in white America’s thoughts.
14,000 people liked a post on X that accused Newsome of trying to scare jurors who will be back next week to consider a lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide.
In an effort to intimidate the jury in the Daniel Penny case, radical BLM member Hawk Newsome is leading the demonstrations outside the courthouse. Why do they permit this? User Matthew Nichol wrote.
A frequent agitator, Newsome once threatened violence in response to Mayor Eric Adams’ demand for more robust law enforcement.
After reportedly choking Jordan Neely, 30, a homeless man with mental illness, during a May 2023 encounter on a Manhattan F train, Penny, 26, was charged with manslaughter.
According to reports, Neely was threatening and disturbing other travelers when Penny put him in a chokehold.
Jurors asked to view a six-minute video taken by another traveler on the second day of deliberations, which showed Penny, a former marine, strangling Neely.
After jurors sent two letters within hours of one another stating that the panel was at a standstill on the matter, prosecutors grudgingly agreed to withdraw the manslaughter charge.
In his decision to drop the charge, Justice Maxwell Wiley instructed the jury to reconvene on Monday to deliberate on criminally negligent homicide, which carries a less penalty.
In the fiercely contested trial, jurors started deliberating on Tuesday.
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