Dramatic bodycam footage performed in courtroom on Friday confirmed first responders attempting to revive a dull Jordan Neely after former Marine Daniel Penny put the troubled homeless man in a chokehold on a Manhattan subway final yr.
The video was proven to jurors in Penny’s extremely charged manslaughter trial in Manhattan Supreme Court docket within the Could 2023 demise of subway busker Neely.
“He’s not respiration,” one officer might be heard saying.
Medics might be seen within the video utilizing completely different strategies to attempt to convey Neely again, together with chest compressions, CPR, a defibrillator machine and an injection of Narcan.
Because the EMTs labored on Neely, a composed Penny might be seen calmly standing close by chewing one thing that will have been gum.
An post-mortem confirmed Neely had K2 in his system on the time of his demise, in response to the protection.
The video was performed in the course of the testimony of the primary trial witness, NYPD Officer Teodoro Tejada.
Tejada additionally searched Neely for weapons however solely discovered a muffin in his jacket.
At one level in the course of the video, Penny is also heard telling officers he “put [Neely] down.”
Jurors later within the day have been proven two extra bodycam movies taken by arriving officers.
Chaotic footage taken from the physique digicam of NYPD Officer Dennis Kang confirmed the cop yelling, “My man! Stick with me … yo!” as he furiously shook Neely’s abdomen in a bid to jolt him awake.
Video from the bodycam of NYPD Sgt. Carl Johnson, in the meantime, confirmed one other angle of arriving officers giving Neely chest compressions, however not mouth to mouth resuscitation, earlier than EMS staff arrived.
Penny, 26, is accused of placing Neely, 30, in a chokehold for greater than six minutes on a crowded F practice after the homeless man burst onto the practice “performing erratically and menacingly” towards straphangers.
He faces as much as 15 years behind bars.
The trial is anticipated to last as long as six weeks.
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