Thirteen people were hit with charges after a group of protesters angry about Jordan Neely’s chokehold death took over a Manhattan subway station and jumped onto the train bed, cops said Sunday.
The protest brought a busy Q train at the Lexington Ave. and E. 63rd St. station to a halt Saturday night, after a line of demonstrators got onto the tracks at about 6 p.m.
Video showed one man jumping atop the board that protects the third rail, which normally carries a killer charge of 600 volts of electricity, while a woman yelled, “Don’t get on the rail! It’s electrified! It is electrified!”
Of those arrested, two were being processed and sent to Manhattan criminal court for arraignment on a variety of charges, a police spokeswoman said.
Ten more were given desk appearance tickets, meaning they’ll have to show up before a judge at a later date to face criminal charges. A 13th person was issued a summons.
The charges they face range from assault and resisting arrest to obstruction of governmental administration, trespass and unlawful interference to a railroad train, the police spokeswoman said.
The NYPD has not yet released any of their names.
The protest stopped a downtown Q train with about 450 passengers inside, an MTA spokesperson said.
Videos showed protesters on the station’s downtown tracks serving the F and Q trains, with the lights of the stopped Q train visible further up the tunnel.
On the opposite tracks, the protesters held a train’s doors for what one witness said was 15 minutes.
Neely’s caught-on-camera Monday death has been ruled a homicide.
Marine veteran Daniel Penny, who is white, put Neely — a Black 30-year-old Michael Jackson impersonator with a history of mental illness and multiple arrests — into a chokehold on an uptown F train entering the Broadway-Lafayette St. station in the Bowery, amid 911 calls from straphangers.
Chilling video shows Penny, 24, keeping Neely in the chokehold for more than two minutes as he slowly kicked his legs and finally stopped moving, while two other men helped restrain him. None of the three were arrested on the scene.
What happened in the lead-up to the chokehold and whether race factored into the confrontation remains a focus of intense debate. Prosecutors in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office are still weighing whether to charge Penny and the two men who restrained Neely.
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Next time just pick out the leaders,,,strap them to the tracks for a Pearl Pureheart experience and see if one of their Mighty mouth leaders flies in and comes to save the day. These pathetic political perineal parts of the American body politic mice that roar, need to get real lives and jobs instead of continually placing themselves into positions that no matter which they go, north or south they just end up stinking the place up, and leaving messes in their wake when the high winds of reality blow their tent cities and houses of straw into the streets, alleys and subterranean tracked choo choo’s of constant complaining. This is what you get when you pay people to stay home, where idle hands are the devil’s workshop. Forced jail time or hours and hours of community service should be their reward, letting no Soros abilty to just pay off their fines and let them walk to protest another day.
I have no real problem with exercising one’s freedom of speech, whether they agree or disagree with my personal opinion. I do, however, have a problem when that free speech turns violent and/or too disruptive for other people to go about their business uninterrupted.
I wonder what would have been the public response if this was any other scenario other than a black man being aggressively subdued by a white man? How about forgetting about racial divide and focus on the fact that Mr. Neely was acting in a criminal manner and creating fear in other law abiding citizens just waiting for the subway train. How about the fact that Mr. Neely had been arrested fourteen times previously for much the same behavior. When is enough just simply enough? We judge Mr. Penny, who choked Mr. Neely, as a bad guy but we can have no way of knowing what the imminent danger Mr. Neely actually posed; we must assume that it was significant enough to warrant the resulting response.
“Marine veteran Daniel Penny, who is white, put Neely — a Black 30-year-old Michael Jackson impersonator with a history of mental illness and multiple (47) arrests —”
I.A.W. U.S. Census & FBI (Table 43a)
Black males make up about 7% of the U.S. population but every year commit ~56% of all the murders and ~64% of all robberies in the U.S… Every year in the U.S. there are ~6,000 African-Americans men, women and children killed and 92% of them were killed by fellow African-Americans.
How many bodies do you have to step over to get to the one that you think is important only because a White person was involved?
AND Note, the monb, called the blacks ON THE TRAIN wanting to just GET TO WORK “white supremacists”.
MAN IS WHite supremacy, the biggest inclusive group out there.
There’s a BIG difference between free speech/public demonstrations, AND CONTINUALLY BLOCKING TRAFFIC!
These protesters just didn’t show up to protest Jordan Neely’, no, they most likely were paid protestors, better than working for a regular job.
former Republican President, Ronald REAGEN ONCE SAID,” Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children im the blood stream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed down for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”
Big all-powerful-GOVERNMENT” You will obey, COMRADE.
Appears like the perfect time to have had a run-a-way train!
CORRECTION- THE LAST LINE”-BIG -ALL POWERFUL GOVERNMENT, YOU WILL OBEY COMRADE.”