Monday, May 15, 2023

It IS Happening Here -

 




The NYPD and the media we used to slam as tabloid got out front to prevent another explosion of Black Lives Matter protests .  A thirty year old mentally ill Black man named Jordan Neely had been strangled by a white guy - a 24 y.o.  ex-marine, in a way very similar to the death of George Floyd.

By the time independent reporters the press started poking holes in the police version of the choke-hold death it was nearly too late.  To the widespread derision of MAGAs online putative Presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron De Santis was calling to lionize the  young white ex-marine who choked Jordan Neely in plain view on the F train in lower Manhattan. As Shulam put it: 


"According to Juan Alberto Vázquez, a freelance journalist who took the only published video of Penny putting Neely in a chokehold, Neely was “aggressive” but not specifically threatening or getting physical with anyone on the train.


According to Juan Alberto Vázquez, a freelance journalist who took the only published video of Penny putting Neely in a chokehold, Neely was “aggressive” but not specifically threatening or getting physical with anyone on the train.t respond to HuffPost’s requests for comment, posted a video of Neely’s final moments on his Facebook page, along with a quote purportedly from Neely written in Spanish: “I don’t have food, I don’t have anything to drink, I’m fed up....I don’t care if I go to jail and they give me life in prison.” Neely didn’t seem to want to attack anyone, Vázquez wrote.

“He started screaming all these things, took off his jacket, a black jacket that he had, and threw it on the ground,” Vázquez told the New York Post for a story published May 2, the day after Neely’s death. He also told The New York Times that day that Neely had said, “I’m ready to die.”

As a subway rider I understand that an angry decompensating young men is frightening. But converting such a killing into a cause for celebration of vigilante justice is appalling.
- GWC

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