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A4 U.S. NEWS
Friday 12 May 2023
Man who choked NYC subway rider to death will face

manslaughter charge

By JAKE OFFENHARTZ and in New York and beyond,
MICHAEL R. SISAK triggering intense debates
Associated Press and protests. Left-leaning
NEW YORK (AP) — Man- advocates described the
hattan prosecutors said killing as an act of racist
Thursday that they will bring vigilantism, invoking com-
criminal charges against parisons to the infamous
a man who used a fatal subway shooting carried
chokehold on an unruly out by Bernhard Goetz
passenger aboard a New against four teenagers in
York City subway train, a 1984.
death that stirred outrage Others, including Mayor
and debates about the re- Eric Adams, have urged
sponse to mental illness in caution, calling on New
the nation’s largest transit Yorkers to wait for the full
system. facts and investigations.
Daniel Penny, a 24-year-old They note that much is still
U.S. Marine Corps veteran, not known about what pre-
will be arrested and face a cipitated the chokehold.
charge of second degree As the investigation has
manslaughter, which could continued, Manhattan Dis-
carry a jail term of up to 15 trict Attorney Alvin Bragg
years. has faced pressure to
“We cannot provide any make an arrest. Penny was
additional information until A group of several hundred people protest the death of Jordan Neely, Friday, May 5, 2023, at questioned by police in the
he has been arraigned in Washington Square Park in New York. hours after Neely died, but
Manhattan Criminal Court, Associated Press released without charges.
which we expect to take the struggle, Neely, who is helped restrain Neely, had ness, friends said. He had A second-degree man-
place tomorrow,” the Man- Black, had been scream- acted in self-defense. been arrested several slaughter charge in New
hattan district attorney’s of- ing and begging for mon- “Daniel never intended to times, and had recently York will require the jury to
fice said in a statement. ey aboard the train prior to harm Mr. Neely and could pleaded guilty to assault- find that a person has en-
The charges come nearly the takedown, but had not not have foreseen his un- ing a 67-year-old woman gaged in reckless conduct
two weeks after Penny physically attacked any- timely death,” they said in in 2021 as she left a sub- that creates an unjustifi-
pinned fellow subway rider one. a statement. way station. After pleading able risk of death, and then
Jordan Neely, 30, to the Attorneys for Penny, who A former subway performer guilty, he missed a court consciously disregards that
floor of a subway car and is white, did not immedi- known for his spot-on Mi- date, leading to a war- risk. The law also requires
put him in a chokehold that ately respond to a request chael Jackson impression, rant for his arrest that was that conduct to be a gross
lasted for several minutes. for comment. They previ- Neely struggled in recent still active at the time of his deviation from how a rea-
According to a freelance ously said their client, along years with homelessness death. sonable person would act
journalist who witnessed with two other riders who and worsening mental ill- His death has divided some in a similar situation.q

Army officially designates Fort Moore,

dropping Confederate name Benning

tended a ceremony Thurs- a married couple. Founded in 1918 as Camp
day unveiling the new sign Hal Moore served in Viet- Benning, the Georgia base
that will stand outside the nam as commander of a had long been named for
base headquarters. The cavalry battalion based Henry L. Benning, a justice
post commander, Maj. at Fort Benning and was on the Georgia Supreme
Gen. Curtis Buzzard, wel- awarded the Distinguished Court who vocally sup-
comed attendees for the Service Cross. Julia Moore ported secession after
first time to Fort Moore, successfully lobbied the Abraham Lincoln won the
The children of Lt. Gen. Hal and Julia Moore join the command
team at what’s now Fort Moore during the unveiling the new named in honor of the late Pentagon to adopt a pol- presidency in 1860. Ben-
sign, Thursday morning, May 11, 2023, at Doughboy Stadium in Lt. Gen. Hal Moore and his icy that military families ning joined the Confeder-
Fort Moore, Ga. wife, Julia Moore. would be notified of war ate Army during the Civil
Associated Press Located just outside Co- casualties in person rather War and rose to the rank of
FORT MOORE, Ga. (AP) — The name change for the lumbus, the Georgia base than by telegram. brigadier general.
The Army’s training hub in post formerly known as trains soldiers to fight in the “Together Hal and Julie The name changes are part
Georgia was renamed Fort Fort Benning had been in infantry, to serve in tank Moore embody the very of a broader effort by the
Moore during a ceremony the making for more than crews and is home to the best of our military and our U.S. military to confront ra-
Thursday, replacing the a year, since an indepen- elite Army Ranger School. nation,” Buzzard told the cial injustice. The Pentagon
name of a Confederate dent commission recom- Roughly 70,000 soldiers and ceremony crowd. “And the in January ordered that
officer that had adorned mended in May 2022 re- civilian workers are sta- renaming of this installation the names of Confeder-
the base for more than a naming nine of its bases tioned there. as Fort Moore is a fitting trib- ate officers and soldiers be
century with that of a dec- commemorating Confed- The name Fort Moore marks ute to their lifelong dedica- stripped from bases, ships,
orated Vietnam War com- erate officers. the first time the Army has tion to the Army and its sol- streets and other places by
mander and his wife. Soldiers and dignitaries at- named a base in honor of diers and their families.” the end of the year.q