and subway choking victim jordan neely s family calling the indictment of daniel penny, quote, the right result for the wrong he committed. what nbc news has learned about the charge he ll be facing coming up. but we ll start with new reporting that former president donald trump had multiple opportunities to resolve the standoff over classified documents amicably but opted out every time. according to the washington post trump time and time again rejected the advice of lawyers and advisers who urged him to cooperate and repeatedly refused to give documents back, even when some of his longest-serving advisers warned of peril and some flew to mar-a-lago to beg him to return them. other advisers told the post that the fact that the fbi and national archives wanted the documents so badly made trump even less inclined to give them back. now the former president s lifelong penchant for digging in and doubling down isn t just putting hmm at legal risk, it s drawing republicans
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and you know you have a response from jordan neely s family saying that this in their words is the right result for the wrong he, meaning daniel penny, committed. but there you have it. very forcefully from his own mouth. daniel penny saying that this was a way to protect himself, that people in that train feared for their lives and that s what he was trying to do, that he meant to restrain him and in his words not kill him. so barbara, how tricky are self-defense claims? what do you need to show or, you know, if you feel like you re protecting others in addition to yourself. yeah, so defense of others is a valid defense even if he says he was not fearful for himself. the law is essentially the case. and in new york the law of self-defense or defense of others requires a reasonable fear of loss of life or serious bodily injury. and so based on the things he said, that he was going to kill people, that he was willing to die for it, could amount to
The suspect told police the victim threatened him and tried to choke him, but prosecutors say surveillance video from inside tells a much different story.
self-defense in their trial. a new bill would not only call those murders justified but prohibit police from even detaining those suspected of violence, as long as they claim self-defense. it s being dubbed by opponents as the make murder legal act, by putting the burden of proof on prosecutors to disprove self-defense claims, something difficult to do where the only witness could be the person who was killed. joining me now is britney cunningham and paul butler, former federal prosecutor. let me read a little bit of this law, which perhaps appropriately is bill number 666. l number 666