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Daniel Penny’s prosecution was ‘BS’ and a ‘political trial,’ original NYC subway vigilante Bernie Go
« on: January 05, 2025, 12:07:31 pm »
 
Daniel Penny’s prosecution was ‘BS’ and a ‘political trial,’ original NYC subway vigilante Bernie Goetz says
By Kathianne Boniello
Published Jan. 4, 2025, 9:22 a.m. ET
 
Daniel Penny's prosecution was "political," according to infamous subway vigilante Bernie Goetz.
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The original subway vigilante, Bernie Goetz, thinks the prosecution of Daniel Penny for the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard a train was “BS.”

Goetz, 77, spoke to WABC’s Frank Morano Dec. 10 about the Penny case, nearly 40 years to the day after he shot a foursome of thugs who tried to rob him on a Manhattan train.

“This is about New York, and New York I consider a BS society, and what the Penny case has in common with my case is, it’s all BS,” he told the host of the show, “The Other Side of Midnight.”
 
“This is what you have in some democratic states with left wing government,” added Goetz.
 
Goetz said the legal system should be “a truth-seeking process,” but that his case, and the case against Penny, were not.

“Here when you see lawfare, it’s not so much to protect the public but to simply impose the will of the people running the system,” Goetz added in the 30-minute interview. “That’s what my case was and that’s what you have here. It was a political trial.”

He called Penny’s acquittal “a good thing.”

https://nypost.com/2025/01/04/us-news/daniel-pennys-nyc-prosecution-was-bs-and-a-political-trial-bernie-goetz-says/
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Re: Daniel Penny’s prosecution was ‘BS’ and a ‘political trial,’ original NYC subway vigilante Berni
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2025, 02:00:49 pm »
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Re: Daniel Penny’s prosecution was ‘BS’ and a ‘political trial,’ original NYC subway vigilante Berni
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2025, 10:49:09 am »
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The original subway vigilante, Bernie Goetz ...   shot a foursome of thugs who tried to rob him on a Manhattan train.
It's hardly vigilantism to defend or protect oneself against violent criminals. NY Post should rewrite that sentence.


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vigilante
noun
vig·​i·​lan·​te ˌvi-jə-ˈlan-tē
Synonyms of vigilante
: a member of a volunteer committee organized to suppress and punish crime summarily (as when the processes of law are viewed as inadequate)
broadly : a self-appointed doer of justice
Goetz didn't join a mob or appoint himself anything. He was in fear for his life, as I understand it.
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