Commuters stand on the F practice whereas it stops on the Carroll St. station February 13, 2014 within the Brooklyn borough of New York Metropolis. Picture credit score: Preston Rescigno
A white ex-marine choked to demise a 30-year-old man named Jordan Neely who was performing in an “erratic method” whereas using a New York Metropolis practice on Monday (Might 1). According to Juan Alberto Vazquez — a contract journalist who taped the encounter and posted it on his Fb web page, “Luces de Nueva York,” — Neely was screaming on the practice, saying: “‘I don’t have meals, I don’t have a drink, I’m fed up… I don’t thoughts going to jail and getting life in jail. I’m able to die.’”
Vazquez stated he was non-violent however began to throw rubbish at fellow commuters. That is when the a 24-year-old U.S. Marine Corps veteran — whose identify has not but been launched — bought concerned and restrained him.
The altercation occurred at 2:30 PM native time on an F practice heading towards the Broadway-Lafayette station. In Vazquez’s video, you may see Neely being held down for at the very least two minutes. Even after Neely stopped shifting, the person nonetheless continued to carry him down for at the very least one other 50 seconds. In response to a number of reports, the person had Neely within the chokehold for quarter-hour. Neely was laying immobile and at one level you may hear somebody saying, “He’ll be all proper.”
The conductor quickly known as 911 and by the point EMS got here, Neely was unconscious. Neely was later taken to Lenox Well being hospital in Greenwich Village, the place he was pronounced useless. On Wednesday, Might third, the medical examiner revealed Neely died from “compression of neck (chokehold)”; they decided the demise to be a murder.
Though the ex-Marine was taken in for questioning, he was launched with out expenses, inflicting outrage amongst many progressive customers on social media. Earlier than the post-mortem outcomes had been launched, a rally for Neely was held on the Broadway-Lafayette station. Some New Yorkers remembered Neely as as soon as being a Michael Jackson impersonator.
TW: Lynching
The lynching of Jordan Neely is what occurs once you blame each violent factor that occurs on this nation on psychological sickness as a result of whereas it excuses violent habits from white folks, it criminalizes psychological sickness in Black folks.
The person who choked him
— @[email protected] (@Imani_Barbarin) May 3, 2023
Occupied with a person named Jordan Neely, how he ought to nonetheless be right here. Don’t allow them to (the cops or their PR papers) trick you into changing into heartless & pondering sure of us don’t have a proper to exist. Don’t turn out to be numb to the normalization of homicide, regardless of the way it’s spun.
— #SaveNewCollege 💙 🌈 (@4lala) May 3, 2023
A person named Jordan Neely was choked to demise in public on the subway this week whereas folks watched and even cheered. That is horrific.
The fixed demonization of poor folks and other people in psychological well being disaster in our metropolis permits for this barbarism. It’s making our metropolis sick.
— Julia Salazar (@JuliaCarmel__) May 3, 2023
Occupied with the person who was strangled within the subway in NYC and my thoughts retains circling again to “the lynchings labored” thread. That is the mentality. White folks shouldn’t need to be uneasy, so executions are so as. https://t.co/QoJ3vMOEdh
— Plz Preorder Let This Radicalize You 🔥 (@MsKellyMHayes) May 3, 2023
The individuals who watched that Marine homicide Jordan: who did nothing whereas he was choked to demise, who sidestepped his lifeless physique to depart the practice, who sadistically cheered as a result of our manufactured housing scarcity satisfied them that unhoused persons are the risk. No phrases.
— Zoé (@ztsamudzi) May 3, 2023
in case you’re in the big apple, it is advisable to be being attentive to what occurred to jordan neely. it is advisable to perceive how essential bystander intervention is. and what you’d do to step in in case you witnessed somebody being harmed. he was only a particular person asking for assist.
— elly belle 🔮 (they/them) (@literElly) May 3, 2023
There’s completely blood on Eric Adams’ arms within the homicide of Jordan Neely. When from a place of authority you perpetuate a tradition of wrangling unhoused folks, particularly these in psychological misery, like a public nuisance as a substitute of uplifting their humanity.
— Dana White (@ItsDanaWhite) May 3, 2023
The NYPD has shared Neely’s criminal history, which incorporates 40 arrests, and in addition revealed that he had documented points with psychological well being. Officers had been reportedly on the lookout for Neely for an assault he was allegedly concerned with in 2021.