"¡¡No tengo comida, no tengo que beber, ya estoy.Posted by Luces de Nueva York on Monday, May 1, 2023 (Vázquez cut that portion from the video he published.) “And then when Jordan tried to escape again, they rolled over again,” he said. For about a minute, “nothing happens they’re just lying there,” he said. Then Vázquez started to film the scene inside the car. Vázquez stepped out to tell the conductor to stop the train while the veteran told bystanders to call the police. (Vázquez told the New York Times he did not actually see Penny grab Neely, just heard them go down and then saw them on the floor.) About 30 seconds later, the train reached the Broadway–Lafayette Street stop: “When the two doors opened, everyone rushed out, obviously, afraid, because now there was an actual fight.” From what I understood, he was yelling that he was tired, that he didn’t care about going to jail.” Neely did not ask for anything and was acting in “a very violent way, a very dramatic way,” at one point throwing his jacket to the floor so hard that Vázquez could hear the zipper’s impact: “The people who were sitting around him - well, yeah, they were scared, and they stood up and they moved around the train car” as Neely stood in place and kept yelling.Īt that moment, Vázquez said, “this man came up behind him and grabbed him by the neck” and forced Neely to the ground. “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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