“The View” co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg and Sunny Hostin expressed disappointment over the acquittal of Daniel Penny, the former U.S. Marine who was found not guilty Monday in the manslaughter of homeless man Jordan Neely.
During Tuesday’s episode of the ABC daytime show, Goldberg criticized Penny and his legal defense team for celebrating the defendant’s acquittal at a bar, while Hostin suggested the verdict was wrong because Neely wasn’t seriously threatening anyone in the metro. before Penny administered a chokehold to him.
“And so when you look at this and you look at the outcome of what happened, my question is, where is our compassion as a society?” Asked the Host, implying that justice was not served.
Penny, a 26-year Navy veteran and architecture student, was charged last year with manslaughter and involuntary manslaughter in the subway drowning death of Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man with schizophrenia who boarded the train shouting death threats. while high in a type of synthetic marijuana known as K2.
The first charge against Penny was dismissed last week, while he was found not guilty of the second.
Whoopi expressed her disappointment after seeing Penny at a bar celebrating the verdict with his legal team.
“I don’t know that seeing them partying in a bar put me at ease, you know,” she began, adding, “I mean, you killed a guy. The man is dead and maybe just – he brings the party home, he doesn’t take it outside. But that’s just me.”
She then sympathized with Neely, saying: “And people are conflicted because he was a sick man and the more information we’re learning about him now – it turns out his mother was murdered and it could have been her that drove him to his state of mind.”
“There’s failure everywhere here,” Goldberg added.
“There is system failure … failure on the part of the courts, failure on the part of the hospitals and failure on our part and how we deal with that.”
Later in the discussion, Hostin countered that Neely was as dangerous to subway passengers as reports say he was before Penny placed him in a chokehold.
“That’s the thing: how do we describe and subscribe to risk and who is dangerous, right?” she began.
Neely, a former Michael Jackson impersonator – he talked about being hungry and thirsty and said he didn’t care if he lived or died. There is no evidence that he assaulted anyone. There is no evidence that he laid hands on anyone—”
“On this occasion,” co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin called out.
Earlier in the segment, she expressed her opinion that Penny was not the “villain” in this account.
“In that case,” Hostin repeated, conceding Griffin’s point.
She continued, “No one on the train would know he touched anyone before. Many people testified that he did not approach anyone in a threatening manner.”
The co-host then cited Whoopi’s point that Neely’s mother being killed destroyed his mental health.
“And his family says that’s when his mental health started to decline,” Hostin said.
“Where is our compassion as a society?”
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