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Kevin Castro Riestra's avatar

It's so twisted to characterize "I don't have food. I don't have a drink" as menacing. Also, it's mind shattering and soul crushing to read someone positing hypotheticals about whether others and Neely might or might not have made it out unscathed when the fact of the matter is Neely didn't make it out unscathed.

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Jay L Gischer's avatar

The WSJ question was, "Was Penny right to intervene?" Actually, my answer to that is yes. Intervening is fine. It's appropriate. My complaint is not that he intervened. There are lots of behaviors that can be described as "intervening". You could step up to Neely, face to face and engage him in conversation, making yourself the focus of him. Draw him out, talk to him ... this will make him less likely to act out, not more.

AND, I think Penny was unequivocally wrong to hold Neely in a chokehold for 15 minutes. That's way past any mandate. As I've said before, the question in my mind was whether Penny was negligent or reckless. Prosecutors have gone with "reckless". They may have more information than I have. They may think they will get information in discovery. They may be feeling pressure and expect to plea bargain back to something else.

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