Closing the tabs once again ...

Y'all talk about Daniel Penny using a chokehold as say police don't use it? Police have handcuffs, and pepper spray and tasers and guns and partners. Penny is just a civilian stepping in. RIDICULOUS ARGUMENT.

But more than that, it's this insistence that we ignore common sense. As if the population of America is supposed to let a man scream death threats at us because it could upset some activist somewhere in America.

Normal people are exhausted with this shit. It's why Trump is president. If we want the Democrats to win again, we need to come back to the reality the people we say we represent are living in.

Ed: You may be surprised when you click through to see the author of this argument. 

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Made a chart for the American Left last night on @cnn to help them tell the good guys from the bad, since it seems so many can’t locate the truth about the Daniel Penny and Luigi Mangione cases. pic.twitter.com/xRzJuhcAmA

— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) December 10, 2024

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A New York City councilwoman is calling for the incoming Trump administration to launch a civil rights probe against the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office for its handling of the Daniel Penny subway choking case, accusing District Attorney Alvin Bragg of being racist.

"It’s really simple. The Manhattan D.A. has made this racial. We have seen what A.G. Bragg has been capable of and has tried to pursue, and I think between Trump and now, this is the icing on the cake, with Penny,” Vickie Paladino told Fox & Friends First on Tuesday.

Ed: Trump just appointed Harmeet Dhillon as the deputy AG in charge of the Civil Rights Division at the DoJ. She may well be interested in investigating Bragg for all sorts of reasons, but this is certainly an opening Bragg has created. But it's still better to have Manhattan voters clean their own house, either at election time or through a recall (if applicable).

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The jury's acquittal of Daniel Penny reveals America is freeing itself from the myth that we're divided by race. The divide is between a small elite, in this case trying to criminalize masculinity itself, and the rest of us. So grateful to join @megynkelly @MegynKellyShow! pic.twitter.com/1IEKUQppaz

— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) December 9, 2024

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Following Penny’s acquittal, Cruz urged the former U.S. Marine to sue Bragg for malicious prosecution in a statement obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Alvin Bragg is an absolute catastrophe. First, he indicted Donald Trump in a partisan case, and then he indicted Daniel Penny for saving the lives of other subway passengers from a deranged lunatic threatening to kill everyone,” Cruz said in the statement. “Penny should sue Bragg for malicious prosecution and hold this rogue Soros prosecutor accountable.”

Ed: I like that option better than a DoJ investigation, under the circumstances. 

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Daniel Penny is a hero! Alvin Bragg is a FOOL pic.twitter.com/R0Y3ruO84n

— LeoTerrell (@TheLeoTerrell) December 9, 2024

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"So we got a problem," she continued. "All the white people here have work to do. Stay the f**k outta black people's business! Go in your neighborhood and do the anti-blackness work in there."

She added, "I don't need your opinion! I don't need no Marxist bullsh*t! I can read black Marxism on my own!"

Ed: Houston, we have a problem ... and we just identified it. Tom Knighton followed up on this ...

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See, the reason she’s lashing out at white people who are also upset by the verdict is simple. To her, we’re the same. There’s absolutely no difference between someone like David Duke and the white people who were at the rally and anyone anywhere else along the spectrum.

This is Marxist collectivism as applied to the American model. See, Marxism focuses on class warfare, but the United States is a country where there’s a great deal of social mobility. The wealthy can be poor next week and the poor can be rich in the same time period. Class struggle doesn’t work when people can also see that there’s mobility.

Race, however, is immutable. You can’t change your race, no matter how much Rachael Dolezal wishes she could.

So to people who buy into Marxism, race is the defining characteristic and everyone should be judged based on their group.

Ed: This is the only argument for prosecuting Penny in the first place. Neely posed a real, immediate threat to everyone around him, and Penny responded to the threat in a reasonable manner. In a world in which the progressives in charge acted responsibly, Neely wouldn't have been allowed to return to the streets to threaten others. He would have either been committed to a psychiatric facility or in prison. 

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The move to dismiss the top charge of manslaughter against Penny, 26, in the May 2023 subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely backfired spectacularly on prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office, attorneys said.

“To say that as a tactical matter, the DA botched their analysis here is an understatement,” said former Manhattan prosecutor Mark Bederow, who called the case “a failure of prosecutorial discretion.” ...

“What Judge Wiley set up is, for in the future, prosecutors to overcharge a case, and if the jury gets hung up on that top charge, well the prosecutors will just move to dismiss the top charge and then try to get a decision on the lower charge,” Aidala said. “So it gives them almost two bites at the apple. That’s why, in all the research everyone’s done, we’ve never seen a situation in Manhattan where a judge has allowed a prosecutor to dismiss the top count while the jury’s deliberated.”

Ed: That in itself was corrupt, and one has to wonder whether the jurors realized it and adjusted their mindsets accordingly. I'm also mystified as to how a jury could be hung on a manslaughter charge but then acquit on negligent homicide for the same death. 

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AOC: The subway will be safer if we lock up people like Daniel Penny pic.twitter.com/6R5SyndtHc

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) December 10, 2024