NEW YORK (AP) — After being acquitted of homicide, the military veteran who choked a volatile, mentally ill man on a New York subway told an interviewer he put himself in a “very vulnerable position” but felt compelled to act.

Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran at the center of a New York City subway murder trial, spoke out for the first time after a jury found him not guilty, noting that at the time of the incident he was in “a very vulnerable position.

Daniel Penny was charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide for putting Jordan Neely, a homeless man, into a chokehold on May 1, 2023, on a New York City subway train (Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

A New York jury on Monday acquitted subway vigilante Daniel Penny in the chokehold death of street performer Jordan Neely on a Manhattan subway train last May, finding Penny not guilty of criminally negligent homicide.

The Marine veteran who choked a volatile, mentally ill man on a New York subway says he put himself in a “very vulnerable position."

A Marine veteran who put an agitated subway rider in a chokehold on a New York subway has been acquitted in the man’s death.

A Manhattan jury delivered the verdict, clearing Daniel Penny of criminally negligent homicide in Jordan Neely’s death last year.

A jury found Daniel Penny did not commit a crime when he administered a chokehold on Jordan Neely, who later died.