Hey Bill O'Reilly here.

Welcome to the No Spin News for Monday, December 9, 2004, stand up for your country.

Well, this morning, Daniel Penny, New York City found not guilty

of crimes in a terrible situation. He, Penny, Long Island native Marine Corvette on a subway,

a guy named Jordan Neely, 30-year-old homeless blackmail, came into the subway car, was terrorizing the passengers.

Mr. Penny sought to neutralize the conduct by getting Neely in a chokehold and nearly died.

And it was a big, obviously big New York City story

because many felt that the very far left

district attorney, Alvin Bragg,

should not have brought the charges

as there were so many people in the subway car

saying they were afraid of this guy.

Neely, who was a trouble man, in a long rap sheet.

So anyway, it went to trial, and the jury acquitted a penny of criminally negligent homicide this morning

and last Friday of second-degree manslaughter.

If he had been convicted, he would have had to do time.

So now he's done.

But he's being sued civilly by Jordan's family, you know, and it never ends.

And I'm going to do a more in detail analysis here for WABC, which is our flagship radio station. But I'll tell you that a case like this, even though I believe justice was done, because it was reasonable doubt all over

the place about intent and whether he died from the confrontation with Daniel Penny, he had

drugs in his bloodstream, you know,

on and on, okay. But there was reasonable doubt in my opinion. But there's also a race factor here

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