On Friday's episode of Human Events Daily, host Jack Posobiec revealed details about the Daniel Penny trial as it unfolds in New York City. Penny, 25, was arrested after subduing and accidentally killing homeless man Jordan Neely who was harassing frightened passengers on a train.
While Posobiec was live, it had just been reported that the jury was deadlocked. He revealed he received a report from a source in New York that most of the jury for the trial want to find Penny not guilty. "In fact, there's only about two holdouts that really are adamantly believing that Penny should be found guilty. The rest of them saying, 'Look, we think this is a self-defense situation'," the host said, adding "Please take it with an absolute grain of salt."
"I certainly believe it's a self-defense situation. I think the majority of the country believes it's a self-defense situation," he continued. "Horrible situation. It never should have happened. But unfortunately, there was a situation where someone became violent, where someone became a threat to others and themselves, by the way, and Penny responded in the best way that he knew how, the best way that he knew how, and he was trying to do the right thing.
"And in our country, in our world ... don't we want to live in a place where, when there is a situation like this, that someone would be able to step up and do the right thing, to help out, to help defend other strangers, people they don't even know, people that they're not related to, people that they don't have connections to in any way, willing to intervene save them, because it is the moral and social right thing to do. That's actual social justice, by the way.
"No, I don't think that Neely, the assailant in this case should have been killed ... I don't think that's something that anyone ever intended. I think it was just a horrible outcome of a horrible situation, but one in which Daniel Penny did not play a role other than to attempt to protect the other people on that train," Posobiec stated.
Watch the full episode below.
While Posobiec was live, it had just been reported that the jury was deadlocked. He revealed he received a report from a source in New York that most of the jury for the trial want to find Penny not guilty. "In fact, there's only about two holdouts that really are adamantly believing that Penny should be found guilty. The rest of them saying, 'Look, we think this is a self-defense situation'," the host said, adding "Please take it with an absolute grain of salt."
"I certainly believe it's a self-defense situation. I think the majority of the country believes it's a self-defense situation," he continued. "Horrible situation. It never should have happened. But unfortunately, there was a situation where someone became violent, where someone became a threat to others and themselves, by the way, and Penny responded in the best way that he knew how, the best way that he knew how, and he was trying to do the right thing.
"And in our country, in our world ... don't we want to live in a place where, when there is a situation like this, that someone would be able to step up and do the right thing, to help out, to help defend other strangers, people they don't even know, people that they're not related to, people that they don't have connections to in any way, willing to intervene save them, because it is the moral and social right thing to do. That's actual social justice, by the way.
"No, I don't think that Neely, the assailant in this case should have been killed ... I don't think that's something that anyone ever intended. I think it was just a horrible outcome of a horrible situation, but one in which Daniel Penny did not play a role other than to attempt to protect the other people on that train," Posobiec stated.
Watch the full episode below.
