![]() “He started lamenting that he didn’t have food, that he didn’t have water. ![]() ![]() “He started yelling,” Vázquez said in an interview on Thursday evening, a day after he was interviewed by police. On Monday afternoon, freelance journalist Juan Alberto Vázquez was headed to Yonkers on from Brooklyn on the F train when it pulled into the Second Avenue stop in Manhattan, where Neely boarded. The killing, captured on video, has become a flash point in the heated argument over public safety that has dominated the concerns of New Yorkers since the pandemic. Meanwhile, investigators are poring over evidence and calling for witnesses to step forward as they weigh charges for the veteran, who was finally identified in media reports on Friday. ![]() But years later, on Monday, he died inside the subway after an ex-Marine, now identified as 24-year-old Queens resident Daniel Penny, put him in a choke hold.Īnger has been rising over Neely’s death and the lack of charges so far for the man who killed him, with protests throughout the city and Mayor Eric Adams tussling with critics such as Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Jordan Neely once wowed straphangers with his Michael Jackson impersonation, performing on the subway with an ultrasmooth moonwalk in his red “Thriller” jacket. Protesters and police clash on the platform of the Lexington Av/63 St. ![]()
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