Over the last couple of weeks or so, as the top stories of the day make their way through the news a couple of things have become clear, to me at least. But maybe I just need more coffee.
Story #1
The Daniel Penny trial. Mr. Penny is a Marine veteran who was minding his own business on one of the dangerous subways in New York City. How dangerous? Dangerous enough the mentally defective governor of New York ordered 750 national guardsmen to help patrol the subway system. With numbers that shock no one, sanctuary city New York has seen a 45% increase in subway arrests since 2023, and that number is from March of this year. But the poor deranged governor wants to correct large government policies by ignoring common sense and enacting even more government policies that won’t help. Her brilliant plan?
The new deployment adds to the additional 1000 NYPD officers ordered into the subway last month to conduct bag checks and follows the slashing of a conductor and other high profile crimes.
Hochul is also calling for people deemed to be too dangerous by a judge to be banned from the subway. She is pushing for a state law that allows judges to block a person from riding the subway or buses for three years if they are convicted of attacking a passenger.
So why is that so stupid? Well, back to the Daniel Penny trial. Mr Penny is on a subway when Jordan Neely a homeless, mentally ill man high on synthetic pot boarded. Mr Neely had quite the history.
According to the Post, Penny’s defense called New York court clerk Brian Kempf, who told the court that authorities had an open warrant for Neely’s arrest related to an assault conviction in 2021.
As part of a plea deal, the Post reported, Neely had agreed to participate in intensive outpatient therapy to avoid prison time for the conviction. But Neely left treatment, and a judge issued a warrant for his arrest.
That was in February 2023, according to Fox News. It was just two months before the fatal encounter on the Manhattan F train.
In other words, a police officer who encountered Neely engaged in any one of his customary criminal acts (he’d had 42 arrests between 2013 and 2021, according to Newsweek) could have run his name and found a court order to take him into custody.
But that didn’t happen, just like want the poor dear that’s governor of New York won’t happen either, because New York only arrests law abiding people for defending themselves and others, or people they don’t like. They prosecute those too.
Neely got on the subway car and began making threats. According to Mr. Penny the conversation went something like
“Some guy came in, and he’s like with his jacket off and he’s like, ‘I’m gonna kill everybody. I’m gonna go to prison forever. I don’t care,'” Penny said.
This seemed to have created some consternation among the other passengers trapped below ground in a metal tube.
And Penny had good reason to be concerned.
In the year before Neely’s death, more than 20 people had been shoved onto the subway tracks in New York City, FOX 5 New York reported previously — many of them by mentally ill homeless suspects.
The other passengers who were suppose to be prosecution witnesses testified at the trial, after all, they had a front row seat.
But a host of prosecution witnesses, Penny’s fellow passengers, knocked massive holes in that tale, as one after another veteran subway rider described how terror-stricken they felt while trapped in the train car with the angry, unstable, threatening Neely.
One woman said she “was scared s–tless” by Neely’s behavior and recalled him yelling: “I don’t give a damn. I will kill a motherf—er. I’m ready to die.”
She stuck around after the ordeal to thank Penny for defending her and everyone else in the car that day.
Another, a high school student, said she was “so nervous” that she feared she “was going to pass out,” and said she didn’t hear other passengers’ warning to Penny to let go of Neely during the struggle.
A third said Penny restrained Neely “so he wouldn’t attack anybody” — more proof that Penny was selflessly acting on behalf of others and a direct blow to lefty claims that his actions were racially motivated.
Add to that, Neely wasn’t dead when first responders got there.
According to The Daily Mail, two police officers confirmed that Neely still had a pulse when they arrived on the scene, but one witness, an NYPD Sergeant, testified that none of his team performed mouth-to-mouth on Neely because he was a ‘drug user.’
Per The Daily Mail:
‘He seemed to be a drug user.. he was an apparent drug user. He was very dirty. I didn’t want them to get… hepatitis.
‘If he did wake up he would have been vomiting. I didn’t want my officers to do that.
‘He was filthy. He looked like a homeless individual. You have to protect your officer,
‘I wouldn’t want my officer to get sick if the person throws up,’ he said.
Chundru, a former Miami-area medical examiner who now runs a private practice in Texas conducting autopsies in a half-dozen counties, said that he did not believe an air choke caused Neely’s unconsciousness and, therefore, did not cause his death.
Chundru said he found the cause of death to be “the combined effects of sickle cell crisis, the schizophrenia, the struggle and restraint, and the synthetic marijuana.”
Someone schizophrenic, high on K2 and involved in a struggle can die without a chokehold being involved at all, he said. Similarly, he said, if there were no health issues and the chokehold was the only factor, Neely would not have died.
Shades of George Floyd!! Goodness gracious Matilda! There was no gun involved, there was no murder, a bystander bravely put himself in harms way to protect the innocent on that subway, some of whom I’m quite sure couldn’t defend themselves, and what do the deranged leftist prosecutor (Alvin Bragg) and governor (Kathy Hochel) do? Go after the hero because I guess he didn’t just stand back and let the police handle it.
So what happens now when there are no bystanders willing to step into the gap and help fellow citizens in the hell hole known as New York City?
Story #2
To be completely honest about it, I’m not sure if a unprovoked is worse or better than a provoked stabbing attack. But the third victim, the woman also later died of her injuries inflicted by Ramon Rivera, a 51-year-old homeless man with a history of eight arrests. As the article points out, don’t confuse this stabbing attack with the one that happened a few days earlier, that was a different perpetrator. It’s almost like criminals in New York realize they won’t be prosecuted. Only former presidents and good Samaritans are of interest to Alvin Bragg.
Could someone have stopped it? I dunno, it happened very close to the area of another stabbing attack just a few days before, and the Daniel Penny trial is going on. So. Perhaps people see the “justice system” in action and think I want no part of that pile of bovine feces.
It’s like the left doesn’t want people to defend themselves, gun or no, self defense is never warranted if it’s going to injure one of their precious illegal invader future voters or a criminal. Apparently the longer the rap sheet, the better.
So what does the left think is justice? Probably nothing we would recognize as such. Which brings us to
Story #3
A verdict was reached in the Laken Riley murder case. I’m sure everyone knows Laken was a wonderful young woman. She was a nursing student in Georgia who had gone out for a run in an area where she had ran before. A few minutes after she started her run, an illegal invader named Jose Ibarra attacked her. So who is Jose Ibarra? He’s one of Kammie and Joe’s babies, an illegal invader into our country.
Ibarra entered the United States illegally through El Paso, Texas, in September 2022 and was released via parole just a day after being taken into custody, Fox News reported. In September 2023, Ibarra was staying for free at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York, which was used as a temporary migrant housing center. He then took a free flight from New York City to Atlanta, Georgia, paid for with federal money under the Biden-Harris administration, the New York Post reported.
Less than six months later in February, Ibarra killed Riley, an Augusta University nursing student, while she was jogging on the University of Georgia’s campus in Athens.
Riley struggled for 18 minutes for her life as she fought the illegal invader attempting to rape her until he finally killed her by smashing her head in with a rock, repeatedly.
So now a verdict has been reached in the murder trial. I’ve seen headlines that said things like justice for Laken. He gets life in prison. Again, 3 hots and a cot on the taxpayer dime.
No, no it wasn’t justice. Georgia is a death penalty state. He cruelly and callously murdered a young woman who wanted to spend her life helping others and all he gets is free room and board for life. So why didn’t he get the death penalty? Because he’s an illegal invader and one of Joe and Kammie’s babies. And the prosecutor is a fellow traveler, Deborah Gonzalez.
The district attorney who declined to seek the death penalty against illegal alien Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan national convicted of murdering 22-year-old Georgia student Laken Riley, is a criminal justice activist and outspoken Kamala Harris supporter.
She “takes into account collateral consequences to undocumented defendants” when charging criminals.
You can tell a lot about a candidate by the company they keep. Vote Biden to Gonzalez – The Democrat for DA #athensga. #gapol pic.twitter.com/ujsGOINczu
— Deborah Gonzalez (@DG4DA) September 15, 2020
Democrat DA Deborah Gonzalez only sought a sentence of life behind bars without the chance of parole, which the judge overseeing Ibarra’s bench trial granted Wednesday.
Although Georgia is a death penalty state, Gonzalez said pursuing the death penalty was not in the interest of “justice.”
So what else does little Debbie take into account?
“Our utmost duty is to ensure that justice is served and that the victim’s family is an integral part of the deliberation process. We understand that there will be those outside this office who will disagree with our decision and seek to exploit this case for political gain. However, the integrity of our judicial process and the pursuit of justice must always transcend political considerations,” Gonzalez said, according to local WRDW-TV.
Is that right Debbie? Well, what did Laken’s family say? What did they want to see done? What would have made them feel that “justice” had been achieved?
During victim impact statements, Riley’s mother, Allyson Phillips, implored Haggard to show “no mercy” in sentencing Ibarra. Addressing the judge, she said, “Your honor, I’m asking you to give Jose Ibarra the same thing he gave us when he […] showed no mercy when she was begging for her life.”
“Jose Ibarra took no pity on my scared, panicked, and struggling child,” the grieving mother said. “This sick, twisted, and evil coward showed no regard for Laken and human life. We’re asking the same be done to him.”
Riley’s father, Jason Riley, said, “The pain I feel is unimaginable,” and that he’s “haunted” by the fear she must have felt in her final moments. “The pain of not being there, not being able to protect her, is something I’ll never escape.” Riley’s sister, Lauren Phillips, cried as she pleaded for the stiffest sentence possible. “Jose Antonio Ibarra has completely ruined my life,” she said, hoping he receives a punishment that will “ruin his.”
The left cares far more about the illegal invaders, and criminals than they do honest law abiding citizens. Remember when the dims knelt in the capitol because a career criminal named George Floyd who was high on drugs and complaining he couldn’t breath died while being arrested?
Well, how many minutes have the knelt in the capitol for a victim of their policies and failure to do their jobs? Oh none? Right.
No guns were involved in any of these stories, what is involved is self defense and defense of others. Daniel Penny could and did, and he was arrested. The lack of someone stepping in if they had been able cost 3 people in NYC their lives. And the verdict in the Laken Riley trial clearly demonstrates the left has no understanding of the meaning of the word “justice” let alone how to execute it. But I’m full of helpful suggestions. For example, justice. Deborah Gonzalez thinks justice wouldn’t be served to ask for the death penalty for one of her illegal invaders who has been supported by American taxpayers since he illegally entered the country. Fine, now she personally pays for his upkeep for the rest of her life. Put some skin in the game Debbie. Because the rest of America has already put in too much, the Riley/Phillips family most of all in this case.
No Debbie, no you didn’t give a darn about what the victim’s family wanted. You just wanted to side with your leftist heroes Kammie and Joe. You don’t know the meaning of the word “justice”. Justice would be Daniel Penny getting a heroes thanks and a key to the city. Justice would be the first citizen that saw the Hispanic construction worker stabbed could have intervened and stopped it, however they needed to do that. Justice for Laken would have been no open borders and she finished her nurse’s training and went on to fulfill the letter she wrote in her diary to her future husband.
The left doesn’t understand justice and they don’t want it. They don’t care about people, they care about power for themselves. Justice?
