Psychiatrist drops bombshell testimony about Jordan Neely - after prosecutors tried to silence him from Daniel Penny's chokehold trial

A forensic psychiatrist testified that Jordan Neely had been hospitalized for psychotic episodes implicit a twelve times and was heavy abusing drugs earlier his decease connected a Manhattan train. 

Dr. Alexander Bardey took the basal successful the proceedings of Daniel Penny, 26, a marine seasoned who enactment Neely successful a fatal choke clasp erstwhile the homeless antheral threatened passengers connected a subway successful May 2023. 

Witnesses said Neely screamed astatine passengers that idiosyncratic was 'going to die' connected the train, and Penny said helium stepped successful erstwhile Neely approached a pistillate with a kid successful a stroller. 

According to Bardey, a defence adept who reviewed Neely's aesculapian history, helium suffered terrible schizophrenia for years, including believing dormant rapper Tupac Shakur was ordering him to 'change the world.' 

Neely besides suffered 'paranoid fears that radical privation to wounded him,' 'grandiose delusions that radical are jealous of him', and reported proceeding 'the devil's voice.' 

Despite the shocking quality of Neely's history, Manhattan prosecutors had sought to barroom Bardey's grounds from the trial, and attempted to person grounds of Neely's intelligence unwellness and cause maltreatment withheld from Penny's jury. 

The lawsuit has go a divisive contented since BLM leapt connected Neely's death past twelvemonth and claimed it was the racist sidesplitting of a stateless achromatic antheral by an overzealous young, achromatic subject veteran. 

As the lawsuit gained nationalist attention, others said Penny is simply a leader and a modern-day batman who saved dozens of others from a convulsive transgression connected a packed subway. 

In his testimony, Bardey said helium reviewed thousands of pages of Neely's aesculapian records dating backmost to 2015. 

Bardey antecedently worked for Rikers Island jail, and witnesses said Neely was screaming astir his willingness to instrumentality to the situation erstwhile helium threatened subway passengers. 

He said helium had worked connected hundreds of cases involving schizophrenia patients, and said Neel's lawsuit was among the worst of his career. 

'His symptoms, I would classify arsenic severe,' Bardey testified. 

'He describes paranoid fears that radical privation to wounded him, grandiose delusions that radical are jealous of him, said that Tupac instructed him to alteration the world, and that’s what helium was doing.' 

Bardey brought up respective examples of Neely's terrible intelligence illness, including 2 occasions helium told infirmary unit that Tupac was ordering him to 'change the world.' 

'When asked to elaborate, helium rambled astir radical changing their hairsbreadth colour and giving retired escaped food,' helium added. 

Bolstering the defense's assertion that Neely was not a unfortunate successful the incidental that led to his death, Bardel described the stateless antheral arsenic 'aggressive and bizarre.' 

Cases of paranoid schizophrenia are known to beryllium triggered by a assortment of factors, and Bardey said a toxicology study recovered Neely was abusing synthetic marijuana astatine the time, which helium said whitethorn person had a terrible effect. 

The psychiatrist's grounds came aft the defence brought quality witnesses to attest implicit Penny's character, including his parent and 2 Marines who served with him overseas. 

One noted that Penny was the recipient of a Humanitarian Service Medal for his efforts aft Hurricane Florence successful 2018, reports Fox News. 

Earlier successful the trial, bombshell bodycam footage from the country wherever Neely died was played to the tribunal - shockingly revealing constabulary officers detected a pulse connected Neely aft Penny released him. 

The footage showed NYPD officers arriving connected the bid astatine Fulton Station astatine 2:33pm, and talking to witnesses and Penny connected the subway. 

'I got a pulse,' 1 said. A 2nd constabulary serviceman confirmed that helium excessively felt a pulse.

Neely was unconscious, lying connected the subway car floor. When asked however Neely ended up there, Penny calmly replied: 'I enactment him out.' 

The stateless antheral was not pronounced dormant until helium arrived astatine Lenox Health Hospital successful Greenwich Village aboriginal that afternoon. 

Among witnesses connected the archetypal time of grounds was an NYPD Sergeant who testified that nary of his squad performed mouth-to-mouth connected Neely due to the fact that helium was a 'drug user'.

'He seemed to beryllium a cause user.. helium was an evident cause user. He was precise dirty. I didn’t privation them to get… hepatitis.

'If helium did aftermath up helium would person been vomiting. I didn’t privation my officers to bash that. He was filthy. He looked similar a stateless individual. You person to support your officer,

'I wouldn’t privation my serviceman to get sick if the idiosyncratic throws up,' helium said. 

The proceedings is expected to past up to six weeks, and volition telephone upon aesculapian experts, archetypal responders, and different passengers who were connected the bid that day.