US Marine vet surrenders to manslaughter charge in New York subway death

NEW YORK - A US Marine veteran surrendered to police Friday to face a manslaughter charge over the chokehold death of a homeless man behaving erratically on New York City’s subway.a Michael Jackson impersonator who often performed on the train, sparked outrage after it was caught on camera.

Daniel Penny turned himself in around 8am and is due to be arraigned in a state court in the afternoon. The charge accuses Penny of “recklessly” causing the death of 30-year-old Neely, but it stops short of saying he had intent to kill.The death on May 1 angered activists and left-leaning lawmakers, andThe video showed Mr Neely on the ground of a subway train as Penny appears to hold him around the neck for several minutes in front of a few onlookers.

Mental health and homeless activists said the city had failed Mr Neely. Left-wing congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York said Neely had been “murdered.”Protesters – including some who spilled onto subway tracks last weekend, sparking several arrests – decried Mr Neely’s death as an example of white “vigilantism.”

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