Daniel Penny's NYPD interrogation video released in subway chokehold trial

Daniel Penny's 30-minute police interrogation reveals helium told officers helium was acrophobic Jordan Neely mightiness marque bully connected his threats erstwhile helium grabbed him successful a headlock past year.

Penny, a 26-year-old Marine seasoned who was studying architecture successful New York City, is connected proceedings for the decease of Neely, a 30-year-old stateless cause abuser with schizophrenia who barged onto a subway car and started shouting threats.

NYPD Detectives Michael Medina and Brian McCarthy interviewed Penny soon aft the incident. They work him his Miranda informing but didn't archer him Neely had died.

Portions of the interrogation had been played successful pretrial hearings, but the tribunal released the afloat portion past week erstwhile it became portion of the nationalist grounds at trial.

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Daniel Penny speaks with 2 NYPD detectives successful an interrogation country astatine the Fifth Precinct gathering successful Manhattan successful May 2023. (Manhattan District Attorney's Office)

While immoderate experts judge Penny whitethorn instrumentality the witnesser basal successful his ain defense, others judge that's a risky determination his lawyers whitethorn privation to avoid. 

Although he's fixed aggregate media interviews since the incident, the video of his archetypal interrogation contains the astir candid comments he's made connected the lawsuit that are publically available.

NYPD Detectives Michael Medina and Brian McCarthy spoke with Penny astatine the Fifth Precinct gathering successful Manhattan.

He was talking gibberish, you know, but these guys are pushing radical successful beforehand of trains and stuff.

After a fewer minutes of tiny talk, McCarthy work Penny a Miranda warning. At that point, Penny was unaware that Neely had died arsenic a effect of the chokehold.

He waived his close to an lawyer and spends the adjacent 25 minutes talking with the New York detectives astir what happened connected the F bid that day.

Penny told the investigators helium was connected his mode to the gym aft people – helium was studying architecture successful Brooklyn – erstwhile Penny barged onto the train.

Daniel Penny walks successful the hallway of Manhattan Supreme Court, Tuesday, November 19, 2024. Penny, a Marine veteran, is charged with second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide successful the 2023 decease of Jordan Neely connected a New York City subway train. (Rashid Umar Abbasi for Fox News Digital)

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"Some feline came in, and he's similar with his overgarment disconnected and he's like, ‘I’m gonna termination everybody. I'm gonna spell to situation forever. I don't care,'" Penny said.

He said exchanged looks with the idiosyncratic adjacent to him and asked them to clasp his phone. He took his earbuds out. Then helium grabbed Neely from down successful a headlock.

"I conscionable benignant of, like, grabbed him from behind," helium said.

"Hmm," 1 of the detectives interrupted.

"Because helium was acting similar a lunatic, similar a brainsick person," Penny continued. "So, and helium was rolling astir the floor. And astatine that point, the bid stopped. I was like, idiosyncratic telephone the cops, and he's still, similar rolling around, inactive going crazy. I had 2 different guys benignant of assistance maine conscionable benignant of support him from going nuts. And yeah, that's erstwhile you guys came."

Jordan Neely is pictured earlier going to spot the Michael Jackson movie, "This is It," extracurricular the Regal Cinemas connected 8th Ave. and 42nd St. successful Times Square, New York, successful 2009.  (Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

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Later, helium said helium doesn't usually get progressive with "crackheads" but helium felt the request to intervene owed to Neely's threats. 

"He's like, 'If I don't get this, this and this, I'm going to spell to jailhouse forever,'" Penny said. "He was talking gibberish, you know, but these guys are pushing radical successful beforehand of trains and stuff."

In the twelvemonth earlier Neely's death, much than 20 radical had been shoved onto the subway tracks successful New York City, FOX 5 New York reported antecedently – galore of them by mentally sick stateless suspects.

Screenshot from bystander video showing Jordan Neely being held successful a chokehold connected the New York City subway. (Luces de Nueva York/Juan Alberto Vazquez via Storyful)

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Penny returns to tribunal Thursday, wherever helium is warring charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide. He faces up to 15 years successful situation if convicted connected the apical charge.

His defence argues Neely's decease was justified due to the fact that Penny was protecting himself and different radical connected the train.