A trial has begun in the case of a former U.S. Marine who is accused of putting a homeless man in a fatal chokehold on a New York City subway train.
@BBCNews reports: “Daniel Penny, 25, has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree manslaughter and negligent homicide. … The May 2023 event quickly became a political flashpoint, with conservatives praising Mr. Penny as a hero, and critics including civil rights activists saying he acted as an unjustified vigilante.”
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9p1p3pdj7o
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My hopes are for murder in the first degree.
Penny is a trained killer who was specifically put through a rigourous course in order to properly assess threats, as should be standard for Marines, and opted for a specifically violent and murderous solution what he considered a problem: someone who was non-violent, non-harmful, and who put nobody else at risk.
When a trained killer chokes someone else to death in the streets, what are we supposed to call it?
