I would sincerely love to get my hands on the police report and follow up investigations done by detectives in this case.
What I am gathering is that Neely was agitated and volatile and perhaps threatening but had not actually assaulted anyone in this instance.
It makes me wonder why Penny thought it necessary to approach and subdue him with the aid of two other passengers who were never charged with a crime btw.
My opinion is that after Penny was released, due to public outcry from police critics, the spineless district attorney that is Alvin Bragg responded in a political fashion with race being a central factor.
The other thing I find perplexing is that the New York medical examiner ruled it a homicide by neck compression. An ME’s sole job is to determine the cause of death not motive.
Both the New York Times and Washington Post referred to Neely as a black subway performer without mentioning his dire mental dysfunction and voluminous criminal charges and history,