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Sid & Friends In The Morning

Heroes & Villains | 12-10-24

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, Comedy, News

4.2828 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2024

⏱️ 167 minutes

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Summary

On this Tuesday edition of Sid & Friends in the Morning, Daniel Penny is a free man after being acquitted on all charges in his caught-on-tape subway chokehold death trial. His lead attorney Thomas Kenniff says the victory is a huge weight off of everyone's shoulders, highlighting how the case should have never been brought in the first place. In other news of the day, the UnitedHealthcare CEO assassin is taken into custody in Pennsylvania, ending an almost week-long chase of the now identified 26-year-old killer in Luigi Mangione. Also, Pete Hegseth won't back down regarding his nomination to become President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Defense Secretary, and Lara Trump officially steps down as RNC co-chair. Alex Traiman, Curtis Sliwa, Rich Lowry, Mark Levin, Jeanine Pirro, Scott Feltman and Joe Parisi join the program on this Tuesday installment of Sid & Friends in the Morning. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is sit-in friends in the morning.

0:03.3

Entertaining and informative.

0:05.7

Oh, you're my best friend.

0:08.2

77 WabC.

0:11.7

Daniel Penny, acquitted of all charges in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a subway last year.

0:16.7

Fox Fives, Michelle Ross, has been inside the courtroom covering the trial every day of jury deliberations.

0:21.5

She joins us now live from Lower Manhattan with reaction.

0:24.3

After hearing from more than 40 witnesses, seeing medical records,

0:27.9

and also watching that subway chokeholds death video replayed dozens of times,

0:32.6

this jury was finally able to come to unanimous decision after five days of deliberations,

0:37.7

officially acquitting Daniel Penny of any criminal wrongdoing.

0:42.6

Daniel Penny is now a free man after a jury of 12 Manhattanites acquitted him in a case

0:48.2

that has sparked public outrage over the subway chokehold's death of Jordan Neely,

0:52.8

a homeless man whose behavior, according to witnesses,

0:55.9

was violent and alarming on that crowded F train. Penny showing a motion for the first time in the

1:01.4

courtroom since the trial began over a month ago, smiling as his defense attorneys embraced him

1:06.9

immediately after the not guilty verdict. The courtroom erupting in applause. Neely's father

1:12.6

turning to someone behind him, cursing in anger, saying, are you clapping when my son got blanking killed?

1:20.7

Protests quickly turning violent outside the courthouse with one person arrested. The verdict comes

1:26.3

after the court dismissed the first count of

1:28.4

second-degree manslaughter after the jury had a difficult time coming to a unanimous decision. After

1:34.2

five days of deliberations, they delivered the not guilty verdict on the second count of

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