The killing of Jordan Neely

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Politics, Daily News, News

4.3 • 10.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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A subway rider choked to death Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old homeless man known to New Yorkers for his impersonations of Michael Jackson. WNYC reporters Matt Katz and Samantha Max explain the complexity of the incident. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Miles Bryan, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Video from Saturday shows demonstrators hold the doors open and stop an F-train around 6pm.
0:07.0	Over the weekend, some New Yorkers protested a killing on the subway in the subway.
0:12.0	Protesters actually climbed onto the tracks, which is quite a dangerous scenario.
0:18.0	13 people we reported were arrested as a result of that.
0:21.0	One week ago, a 24-year-old writer named Daniel Penny put in a chokehold a fellow passenger
0:27.0	who was acting erratically.
0:29.0	Penny killed Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old man who was known to New Yorkers for his Michael Jackson impersonations.
0:35.0	Neely was also homeless.
0:37.0	Mayor Eric Adams gave a kind of non-answer to the question of what subway writers should do in these kinds of situations.
0:44.0	We cannot just blankly say what a passenger should or should not do in a situation like that.
0:50.0	We should allow the investigation to take his course.
0:53.0	We'll be up on today's plain two New York reporters on a killing that has divided the city.
0:58.0	Dad, I'm hungry!
1:00.0	Right, what do I cook for tea?
1:02.0	Err, McCain chips. These will be good.
1:04.0	You know they'll come out nice and crispy if you cook them in a rye fryer.
1:07.0	Just say, Alexa, open McCain and Alexa will help you.
1:11.0	What? You mean if I say Alexa, open McCain, Alexa will open the bag of chips for me?
1:15.0	Not literally open the bag of chips for your dad, but Alexa can tell you how to cook them and give you ideas for tea.
1:21.0	Ah, okay. Alexa, open McCain.
1:24.0	Well done, dad. Such a tech wizard.
1:26.0	Chip, chip, hooray. Crispy air fryer perfection with McCain.
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