appropriate or inappropriate. ainsley: one lady on the train is a witness, she s lived in new york for 50 years and she is a woman of color, she said they are trying to make this about race, she said it is not about race, he s a hero. she said, i m sitting on the bus and i hear someone spewing rhetoric, i don t care if i have to kill an f, i will. i m looking at where we are in the tube, meaning the subway, in this can and we re in between stations, there is nowhere to go. the people on that train, we were scared, scared for our lives. brian: that is why, after waiting a while, reportedly danny penny takes action. she says he is a hero and saved a lot of people that day. mr. penny cared for people, that is what he did, that is his
After the ruling that Jordan Neely’s death on a subway train was a homicide, the Manhattan district attorney’s office faced several choices over how to charge his killer.
Readers discuss the arrest of Daniel Penny for killing a mentally ill man and their fears about riding on the subway. Also: Democrats as a working-class party.