Cop's blunt testimony about 'dirty drug user' Jordan Neely at chokehold trial of Marine vet Daniel Penny

A New York City constabulary serviceman has delivered blunt grounds during nan first time of Marine seasoned Daniel Penny's manslaughter proceedings wherever he described really he believed bum man Jordan Neely to beryllium a 'dirty supplier user'.   

NYPD Sergeant Carl Johnson was among nan first witnesses to springiness during nan proceedings which sewage underway connected Friday. 

Sergeant Johnson testified that nary of his squad performed mouth-to-mouth connected Neely because he was a 'drug user'. 

'He seemed to beryllium a supplier user.. he was an evident supplier user. He was very dirty. I didn't want them to get… hepatitis,' Johnson said. 

'If he did aftermath up he would person been vomiting. I didn't want my officers to do that. 

'He was filthy. He looked for illustration a bum individual. You person to protect your officer,' nan sergeant went on.

'I wouldn't want my serviceman to get sick if nan personification throws up,' Johnson said. 'There's a definite statement wherever you person to protect your officers.' 

Police detected a beat connected Neely after he was put successful a chokehold by Penny, bombshell caller bodycam footage reveals. 

The video became nationalist connected Friday arsenic Penny's manslaughter proceedings sewage underway.

Penny, then 24, is accused of sidesplitting Neely by putting him successful what prosecutors opportunity was a fatal chokehold. 

The May 2023 incident sparked uproar successful America with Black Lives Matter describing it arsenic 'the racist sidesplitting of a mentally sick achromatic man by an overzealous achromatic subject faithful.' 

Others opportunity Penny is simply a hero, a modern-day batman who stepped successful erstwhile Neely made fierce threats connected nan subway, including to a toddler boy whose mother shielded him pinch a stroller. 

During opening statements today, bodycam footage of nan infinitesimal cops recovered Neely was shown. 

NYPD officers arrived connected nan train astatine Fulton Station astatine 2.33pm.

Two constabulary officers confirmed that Neely still had a beat erstwhile they arrived. 

'I sewage a pulse,' 1 said. A 2nd constabulary serviceman confirmed that he excessively felt a pulse. 

Neely was unconscious, lying connected nan subway car floor.  

When asked really Neely ended up there, Penny replied: 'I put him out.' 

Despite initially detecting a pulse, they issued Narcan - nan supplier utilized to reverse opioid overdoses - to Neely - and started CPR astatine 2.38pm.

Paramedics from Northwell Health arrived connected nan train astatine 2.48pm - 15 minutes aft nan police.

At 3.13pm - almost 45 minutes aft constabulary first arrived - Neely was still connected nan train, by past surrounded by paramedics. The bodycam released by nan tribunal coming ends then. 

He was not pronounced dormant until he arrived astatine Lenox Health Hospital successful Greenwich Village later that afternoon.

In opening statements, Manhattan prosecutors said: 'Jordan Neely took his past breaths connected nan soiled level of an uptown F train. He was 30 years old, homeless and mentally ill. 

'He rather literally, went for nan jugular,' Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran said. 

'His first effort was moreover laudable: to protect chap New Yorkers from a perceived threat,' Yoran told jurors successful an opening statement. 

'But deadly beingness unit is permitted only erstwhile it's perfectly basal and only for arsenic agelong arsenic it's perfectly necessary, and present nan suspect went measurement excessively far.' 

She said he showed 'indifference' toward Neely and 'didn´t admit his humanity.' 

The prosecution accepted that Neely had been 'menacing' passengers connected nan train. 

But she said nan full exchange, from nan clip Neely sewage connected nan train, to nan clip nan doors opened astatine nan adjacent station, lasted conscionable 30 seconds. 

It was Penny's prime to support Neely restrained for a further 5 minutes and 53 seconds that formed nan ground of nan state's case. 

'We walk group for illustration Jordan Neely each day. As New Yorkers, we train ourselves not to engage, not to make oculus contact, to dress group for illustration Jordan Neely don't exist.'  

Boarding nan train car, Neely threw his overgarment to nan floor, screaming that he was hungry, thirsty and wanted to spell backmost to jail.  

Witnesses will attest to nan jurors that it was scarier than nan accustomed New York subway encounter, Yoran said.

'His sound was large and his words were threatening,' Yoran told jurors, though he was not equipped and not physically threatening immoderate peculiar individual. Within 30 seconds of Neely getting connected nan subway car, Penny came up down him and utilized his near limb to compression Neely's neck.

Yoran told jurors that different man who helped to get Neely to nan crushed many times told Penny that he could fto spell because he had a beardown grip of his arms. 

'The suspect has specialized training successful chokeholds. A personification passes retired and you person to instantly fto go… a greenish loop Marine is taught, and intelligibly knows. 

'He pushed Mr Neely to nan constituent of nary return, definite to die. When he did fto go, he near Neely connected nan level and didn't look back. He picked up his hat, dusted himself off, and stood complete his body.' 

Yoran said Penny's defense that he was acting to protect other, susceptible passengers connected nan train can't beryllium considered beyond nan constituent that each nan passengers had fled nan train. 

'[The level of force] whitethorn person been reasonable initially, [Neely's behavior] would warrant an first usage of force. But astatine nan constituent that Penny killed Mr Neely, location was nary 1 to protect. At that constituent location was nary excuse aliases justification for nan deadly usage of beingness force.' 

Jurors will spot cellphone videos recorded from nan platform. Yoran said that, arsenic a Marine, Penny was trained successful first assistance and knew nan chokehold he was utilizing could beryllium deadly.

'You will spot Mr. Neely's life being snuffed retired earlier your very eyes, but what you will besides spot successful this video is really unnecessary this deadly chokehold was,' Yoran said. She noted that 2 men stayed connected nan car to thief Penny restrain Neely.

'With nan constabulary intelligibly connected their way, pinch nan train virtually empty, nan defendant's chokehold connected Jordan Neely was conscionable beginning,' Yoran said.

While nan authorities intends to reason that Penny ne'er fto up nan first unit he placed connected Neely's neck, nan defense insists he made respective attempts to loosen his grip, and that only had a ray clasp connected Neely by nan clip he stopped fighting back. 

'This struggle did past 5 to six minutes. But Danny was not, and could not, person been squeezing his neck. We cognize that because if he was, Neely would person passed retired successful nan first minute,' Penny's lawyer, Daniel Kenniff said.  

Kenniff told jurors that Penny was a assemblage student and connected his measurement to nan gym that afternoon.

'He still has nary measurement of anticipating what is astir to hap arsenic nan subway doors are astir to adjacent and a seething, psychotic man storms connected and announces his presence,' Kenniff said.

 Penny was prompted to enactment erstwhile he watched Neely move toward a female pinch a young child, uttering nan words: 'I will kill,' he said.

'What Danny does is leap into action,' Kenniff said. 'Danny's behaviour that time wasn't accordant pinch personification who devalued quality life.'

'In that moment, Danny could look distant and pray, aliases he could summon nan courageousness to put nan information of his neighbors supra that of himself, to protect those who could not protect themselves,' and he did nan latter, Kenniff said.

'It doesn't make him a hero. But it doesn't make him a killer.'

Kenniff told jurors that nan grounds will not beryllium Neely died by asphyxiation, and that his decease whitethorn person been a consequence of narcotics successful his assemblage and nan 'excitement' of nan struggle. He said Penny astatine times loosened his grip astir Neely's neck.

Once successful court, Penny sat consecutive up successful his spot astatine nan defense table, mostly looking straight ahead. 

A personnel of Neely's family who was successful nan assemblage sometimes sniffled pinch tears 

Opening statements began connected Friday aft a grueling two-week process of selecting nan 12-person jury. 

An first hunt was conducted of Neely's assemblage and jacket, which was nearby. 

No weapons were found, and nan only possession he had astatine nan clip was a muffin stuffed into his overgarment pocket. 

Police initially felt a faint pulse, and a changeable of Narcan was administered. 

Once nan beat disappeared, officers began performing CPR, and past issued different changeable of Narcan. 

At nary constituent did Neely regain consciousness. 

Kenniff based on that Penny had only intended to intervene until constabulary could travel and return over. 

'Something that took measurement longer than expected,' he said. 

From nan clip constabulary received nan dispatch call, it took 7 minutes for first responders to arrive. 

It was past different 10 minutes earlier emergency services arrived pinch a defibrillator and much resources. 

'Danny was desperately waiting for constabulary to show up and thief him nan measurement he had helped different passengers connected this train,' Kenniff said. 

The proceedings is expected to past up to six weeks, and will telephone upon aesculapian experts, first responders, and different passengers who were connected nan train that day.