Daniel Penny trial shown video of him telling cops why he put 'crackhead' in chokehold on subway

Marine seasoned Daniel Penny told officers helium wasn't 'trying to injure oregon kill' Jordan Neely erstwhile helium enactment him successful a fatal chokehold connected a engaged subway train. 

Neely had been behaving erratically from the infinitesimal helium got connected the bid successful May 2023, threatening to 'kill people' and telling commuters helium was acceptable to 'go backmost to jail.'

Penny, present 26, is connected proceedings accused of negligent homicide and manslaughter for his actions in the six minutes aft her chose to intervene.

In a never-before-seen constabulary portion played to jurors Friday, Penny offered detectives an mentation arsenic to wherefore helium sprang into action, contempt initially dismissing Neely arsenic 'just a crackhead' ranting connected the train.

'I conscionable wanted to support him from getting to people,' the then-24-year-old architecture pupil told officers.

'He was acting similar a lunatic, similar a brainsick person.'

Neely, a 30-year-old erstwhile Michael Jackson impersonator, was homeless and suffering terrible intelligence wellness issues astatine the clip of his death.

The aesculapian examiner recovered synthetic drugs - K2 - successful his strategy astatine the clip of his death, but maintains it was the chokehold that yet killed him.

'I'm not trying to, like, termination the guy. I'm conscionable trying to de-escalate the situation,' Penny insisted.

'I wasn't trying to wounded him. I'm conscionable trying to support him from hurting anybody else. He's threatening people.'

Dr. Cynthia Harris of the City Medical Examiner's Office testified connected Friday that determination 'are nary alternate tenable explanations for Mr Neely's death.'

The tribunal had antecedently heard Neely inactive had a pulse erstwhile constabulary archetypal arrived connected the scene, and that astatine slightest 1 serviceman reported inactive feeling a heartbeat.

They issued 2 doses of Narcan - the attraction utilized to reverse a cause overdose - erstwhile earlier starting CPR and again after.

One serviceman revealed helium didn't counsel immoderate of his squad to execute mouth-to-mouth resuscitation due to the fact that Neely appeared 'dirty' and helium didn't privation his squad to hazard catching a disease, oregon being vomited connected if helium were to regain consciousness. 

Dr Harris reportedly said it 'made cleanable sense' that Neely would inactive person a pulse successful those archetypal fewer moments, contempt testifying that helium apt became functionally encephalon injured wrong minutes of the six-minute chokehold beginning.

'This is an asphyxial death. So successful asphyxial death, for deficiency of a amended mode of putting it, the encephalon dies first.' 

In immoderate cases, a pulse tin beryllium felt for up to 10 minutes aft the encephalon dies, she said, and indicated Neely's bosom was functioning usually up until helium died.

The defence argued that Dr Harris made her determination adjacent earlier the toxicology study had been completed, but she maintained that the drugs successful Neely's strategy bash not alteration her opinion.

She said adjacent if Neely had 'enough fentanyl successful his strategy to enactment down an elephant', she would inactive judge his decease was caused by the chokehold.

Prosecutors assertion Penny acted recklessly and went excessively acold successful his efforts to support different passengers.

They person repeatedly stated that the charges helium is facing bash not necessitate intent to kill. 

The proceedings continues.