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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

A New York jury acquits Daniel Penny for killing Jordan Neely in a subway car last May. Meantime, Hunter Biden's pardon has others in

Washington asking, what about me? Raising the prospect that President Biden might grant

mass clemency to political allies

and members of his administration. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're

joined today by my colleagues, columnist Bill McGern, and Kim Strassel. After four days of deliberations,

a jury of 12 of Daniel Penny's peers, seven women, and five men

acquitted him of the charge of criminally negligent homicide for his intervention on the

New York subway train on May 1st, 23, painted by some as a hero, others as a vigilante. Let's listen first to New York Mayor Eric

Adams at a press conference on Monday. We have a mental health system that is broken. When you have

someone repeatedly going through that system, that's a signature of failure. And we need help in Albany and in the city council.

We can't sit back and mourn the loss of someone that is caught up in the system when we're not

taking the action every day. But a jury of his peers heard the case, so all the facts and all the evidence and made a decision and I joined

DA Braggs and stated that I respect the process. Bill, what do you make of this verdict? And maybe

the place to start is just to remind listeners of what happened on the subway that day. Well, what

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