r/BoomersBeingFools • u/DappyHayes • 18d ago

Disillusioned NYC Leaders Feel the Social Contract Shattered After Jordan Neely's Chokehold Death by Daniel Penny, a Trained Marine Sargent

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u/RoosterontheSpectrum 17d ago

This has nothing to do with boomers. A marines incompetence of choke holds caused him to kill a mentally distressed man.

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u/ChanceAd3606 17d ago edited 17d ago

A marines incompetence of choke holds caused him to kill a mentally distressed man.

I think you're mistaken. What actually happened was a violent man with 42 previous arrests, including being convicted of sucker punching a 67 year old woman, breaking her nose and shattering her orbital bone, lost his life because he was threatening to kill people on the subway.

Neely plead guilty to assaulting that 67 year old woman in exchange for a sentence that didn't send him to prison, but instead to a mental health facility where he could rehabilitate. Neely fled from the mental health facility and refused to show up for his return court date.

"A mentally distressed man". No, it was a violent man who was failed by his father (abandoned his son even after the child's mother was murdered) and also failed by the city of NY DA office for not locking him up in jail a long time ago.

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u/Calculagraph 17d ago edited 17d ago

I like the part in the middle where you reinforce that he was having a mental health crisis.

You editorialized it a bit, but you aptly described a man fighting with his disorder. I've definitely walked out of a few therapy sessions I knew I needed at the time; but I wasn't driving.

Beyond any of this, are you trying to say that Dudly Dowrong knew about Neely's past actions, the ones you think deserve death as punishment? Because he's a former marine, not a cop, so I doubt it. Plus we have a whole court and appeals process that is supposed to come before executions. That's murder.

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u/seattleseahawks2014 Zoomer 3d ago

I have my own mental illnesses myself, but still. I'm going to see shit like this in the regards of being a young woman myself. I mean, I've actually had psychotic episodes in the past and I have hurt people too. I put the responsibility parlty squarely on myself.