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Hello everybody. I'm John Fawson with this Great America Show Midday Update for Monday,

December 9th. Truth, justice, and the American way, folks. It's happening in

New York, slowly but surely. Today, the big news out of the Big Apple, a New York City jury found

Marine veteran Daniel Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the chokehold death

of Jordan Neely in New York City subway car in

23.

Penny, who was 26 years old, pled not guilty to charges of second-degree manslaughter

and criminally negligent homicide.

The judge in the case dismissed the second-degree manslaughter charges against Penny

on Friday after jurors said they could not come to unanimous decision.

Jurors in the case deliberated for more than 20 hours, Penny faced a maximum possible sentence of 15 years in prison on the manslaughter charge or four years on the negligent homicide charge. The acquittal came after jurors heard from more than 40 witnesses. Some of those witnesses included passengers who described Neely's terrifying outburst on the train

before Penny approached him from behind and took him down at the Broadway Lafayette Station.

Penny himself did not take the stand during the trial with his defense lawyers saying

their client statements to police adequately describes the encounter.

Folks, as I said, things aren't going too well for Alvin Bragg over in the Marxist

run New York City. And like I said, it's truth, justice, and the American way. This case should

have never been brought in the first place. Just another waste of taxpayer dollars, folks,

like we're printing money and we can afford to keep on doing these witch hunts and these

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