Wednesday, December 18, 2024
The Briefing with Albert Mohler
The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
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🗓️ 18 December 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Part I (00:14 - 14:15)
There are Deeply Troubled People Among Us: The Daniel Penny and Jordan Neely Case Raises Massive Mental Health Issues in NYC and Beyond
- In Penny Verdict, a Flashpoint in the Debate Over Crime and Mental Illness by The New York Times (Hurubie Meko and Anusha Bayya)
Part II (14:15 - 19:34)
President Biden’s Reckless Clemency Commutations: President Biden Grants Shocking and Controversial Clemency Commutations
Part III (19:34 - 26:00)
Salvation is Not a Pardon or Commutation: At the Heart of the Gospel is the Substitutionary Atonement of Christ on Our Behalf
- Victims ‘shocked’ after Biden grants clemency to ‘kids-for-cash’ judge and $54 million embezzler by CNN (Marshall Cohen)
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, December 18, 2024. I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. |
| 0:14.0 | Much of America was fascinated and quite pleased, just a matter of days ago, when Daniel Penny was found not guilty of charges that had |
| 0:23.2 | been brought against him by the District Attorney in Manhattan related to the death of |
| 0:28.4 | Jordan Neely on a subway car after an incident that had led to a chokehold being applied by |
| 0:35.4 | the former Marine Daniel Penning, and it eventually led to the |
| 0:38.6 | death of Jordan Neely. The district attorney in Manhattan charged Penny with criminal charges, |
| 0:44.5 | including at least two major felony charges. One of them was dropped after the jury said it was |
| 0:50.6 | deadlocked. A lesser charge was allowed, but just a matter of hours later, |
| 0:55.5 | the jury basically came back and rendered a not guilty verdict. And so the immediate story |
| 1:01.3 | came down to the fact that the jury had acquitted a man who had killed another man on a subway |
| 1:06.5 | car, but it was ruled, at least in the view of the jury, to have been justified, given the |
| 1:12.8 | circumstances of the fact that Jordan Neely presented a clear and present danger, and thus |
| 1:17.9 | when Daniel Penny, the former Marine, on a subway car under the surface of New York City, |
| 1:22.6 | put Jordan Neely in a chokehold, even when that led to Jordan Neely's death, there was no appropriate |
| 1:29.4 | criminal charge to be brought against Daniel Penny. The basic facts of the case are very well known. |
| 1:35.4 | Jordan Neely had been known to police authorities and transportation authorities there in New York |
| 1:41.0 | City for some time because he had been arrested numerous times for various |
| 1:46.2 | violations. He was known to be suffering from psychiatric problems. He had a deep personal struggle. |
| 1:51.5 | He was a very large man. And on the day that he died because of this chokehold, at least that is what |
| 1:58.3 | police understand, in the very day, he had gone onto the subway area and then |
| 2:03.1 | into a subway car and was acting in a way that indicated some kind of psychotic break or something |
| 2:09.0 | similar to that. It was behavior that scared many people on the subway car. And when you had |
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