U.S Marine/Subway Samaritan Charged With Manslaughter

Three things, and ya might not like 'em all

U.S. Marine Veteran Daniel Penny, who physically stopped a potentially violent situation on a NYC subway last week resulting in the unintended death of a homeless mentally ill man, has been charged with 2nd degree manslaughter by the Manhattan district court.

Three things.

One...
And you might not like this part, but it's true. If you look at this through a pristinely objective lens, and set aside all the politics, racial overtones, societal opinions and media hype, it is not unreasonable for manslaughter charges to be brought in this case. A person died in a situation where it can be reasonably argued that, unintentional or not, their death was caused by another person. That's manslaughter. We have a specific set of laws for that, and you cannot pick and choose only the laws which suit you, so you let the system work and see what happens.

Two...
What IS tragically unfair is that if this goes to trial, it will be in Manhattan, and he has no chance of coming through the process unscathed there. Because while I describe having "faith" in the system above, we all know it is imperfect, and the NYC court system is a glaring example of it's imperfection. A white male, former military putting a chokehold on a black, homeless man with a history of mental illness on a subway car in NYC is a first ballot Hall of Fame "guilty" charge in Alvin Bragg's NYC court system.

Three...
If this all proceeds forward, now looking at it through an historic perspective, there will be "Protests" of every shape, size, race and degree of 'peacefulness' occurring just a few trains tops away from me...and my curious nature, pathologically contrarian lean and penchant for poor choices will compel me at some point to go and look at them if yhey do. Y'all need to talk me out of that shit. 😒

Thoughts?

Go!