December 9, 2024
With the Daniel Penny verdict, BLM is trying to relive the glory days of George Floyd
By Andrea Widburg
The big news is that Daniel Penny was acquitted—which is kind of strange when you consider that some on the jury desperately wanted to convict him on the greater charge but nevertheless agreed to acquit him on the lesser charge. I suspect that the anti-Penny holdouts just gave up. The outcome is a happy one, of course, but it doesn’t remove from New York City the stain of having prosecuted Penny in the first place. If there ever was a case of righteous self-defense and defense of others, this was it.
However, what’ll be more interesting in the next day or two than the verdict itself is to see whether BLM is successful in its effort to relive the glory days of the 2020 George Floyd riots. Certainly, the BLM types are trying to gin up some violence.
New York’s BLM leader, ignoring the fact that Jordan Neely’s journey to death began when he threatened to kill people on a subway car, pretended that Daniel Penny murdered Neely out of the blue on racial grounds. With that imaginary narrative in place (and it’s unclear if he’s a victim of our dishonest media or is willfully blind to the facts), the BLM leader demands that blacks turn vigilante against random whites, just to even the score:
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