washington. penny is charged with the death of neely. alvin bragg needs the go-ahead from a grand jury before he can prosecute. neely made comments and his attorney describing something the grand jury will have to consider, penny s state of mind when he restrained neely. what was his mindset when he put jordan neely in a choke hold? well, the mindset is pretty simple. he was fearful for the safety of those passengers. so when he acted, his mindset was to keep his fellow passengers safe from attack. dana: nate foye is live with more. the vet says he would do the same thing again in similar circumstances and denies race played any role. he said i judge a person based on their character, i m not a white supremacist. he is charged with second degree manslaughter for this alteration on the subway you see here. he said he was on his way to the gym when he encountered jordan neely. his lawyers say he was protecting others after neely was threatening people on the train. he s
paul mauro. one of the things from the witnesses, call for number one that we re starting to hear more of is that they said the rhetoric from neely was very frightening. very harsh. people that travel the subway see and hear everything. this was different. frightening people were gravitating towards the exit doors and we couldn t get out because we were between stations. if this goes to the grand jury today, as perhaps our reporting shows, how much do these witness statements play into that? i mean, undeniably they are going to. what we re seeing is the battle for the public relations narrative. i feel that likely what happened here is daniel penny s lawyers made the decision that they have to counter the narrative that so many of the people in the public media and in the from the progressive sphere want to put in place that it was some sort of a vigilante white supremacist
all recognizable to you? has there been previous white supremacist activity like this in your district, or is there any sense in which these guys were sort of usual suspects for this sort of thing? or was this a surprise, and were these, were these strangers? well, we understand that one of the groups that was involved, one of their leaders is based in kissimmee, which is just around the corner from the east orlando district that i represent. we also saw in south florida, some leaflets and some paper, some anti-semitic documents and flyers that were being left in our communities that were promoting the same hateful message. but i think what s important to contextualize here is what are we doing in our state that is potentially affecting the rise in hatred and extremism in florida.
that number is growing. we also know that unfortunately, there were more floridians that were arrested and that are seeing charges brought against them who were involved in the violent insurrection on january 6th in the nation s capital and many of those individuals were tied to some of these groups like the proud boys, and so it s really incumbent on folks to speak out and announce this type of hatred and bigotry, and really just kind of be aware and open their eyes to this rise of extremists and hateful behavior in our area. were any of these groups at all recognizable to you? has there been previous white supremacist activity like this in your district or any is there any sense of how much these guys were usual suspects with the sort of thing? or was this a surprise? were these strangers? we understand that one of
really just kind of be aware and open their eyes to this rise of extremists and hateful behavior in our area. were any of these groups at all recognizable to you? has there been previous white supremacist activity like this in your district or any is there any sense of how much these guys were usual suspects with the sort of thing? or was this a surprise? were these strangers? we understand that one of the groups that was involved, one of their leaders is based and kissing me, which is just around the corner from the east orlando district that i represent. we also saw in south florida, leaflets, papers of anti-semitic documents and flyers that were being left in our communities that were promoting the scene, hateful messages. i think watson port and to contextualize here is what are