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

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 jury found Daniel Penny not guilty in the 2023 chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway. Neely was a street performer who was experiencing homelessness. CBS News New York's Alice Gainer has the latest.

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.