Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Bill O'Reilly on Why Daniel Penny Was Found Not Guilty

Episode Date: December 10, 2024

Bill O'Reilly tackles the Daniel Penny verdict. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's a racial component to this story that there shouldn't be. All right. So the guy, Jordan Neely, was a homeless black man who just caused trouble. He was a drug taker. He was a chaotic, mentally ill person. He haunted the subways, and people were afraid of him. Now, it doesn't matter what color he was. There are white people that do that.

There are every ethnicity does that. No matter that he's black. He just happened to be that way, happened to be an African American. It's not the central driver to the story. The story is that you're sitting in a subway, you're trying to get to work or get home, whatever. And a guy comes in and he's screaming that he's going to do damage. and he's going up to people. He's in their face. He wants money. And a bystander says enough and takes him down and he winds up dead. And the bystander was penny. And what tilted this story

for me was that the people in the subway car who witnessed this, almost all of them were afraid and we're happy about the physical intervention. And that's why he got found not guilty, Penny, because it was a reasonable doubt in the jury's mind that Penny meant to do this guy any damage. He was stopping chaos, Penny. And unfortunately, and I mean that, I don't want this guy Jordan nearly dead.

That's ridiculous. He should have been dealt with by his family. his family suing this, suing that, screaming this, well, where were you when this guy's out on the street? What did you do, family members? Try to help him. Well, my kid, I damn well would have gotten him off the street. So anyway, that is a very important part of this story intent. The other part of the story that's disturbing is that New York City authorities don't know how to handle this problem so that we the people civilians are helpless. We don't know what to do. So Penny intervenes, former Marine, a strong guy, do you think anybody else is going

to do what Penny did? And have to go on criminal trial with his zealot like Alvin Bragg, you know how much that cost? Now, Penny had his bills paid by a variety of fundraisers to help him, but now he's being sued civilly and it's on and on. Who's going to help when the authorities don't, you know, they're looking at you as a criminal, and then you have to go through the process that costs tens of millions of dollars before it's all over. Nobody has that kind of money. So this discourages people from protecting other people. That's really the most heinous thing consequence of this whole thing, other than, of course, the death of this guy who should not be dead.

But if you have someone in your family or you know someone who is totally out of control, then you've got to seek some way to help the person. Sometimes there isn't a way. Sometimes these people are so self-destructive, matter what you do, it's not going to help. I know that. But you've got to try. And this guy, 30 years old, he's dead. He's dead because his whole life was chaos.

Now, how much of that was his fault? I don't know. Probably a mentally ill guy. But you can't allow. Society can't. New York City can't, a mentally ill person to hurt others. And they do every day. You've got to stop it.

Isolate it. You can't be a whole other we can do. Oh, the laws need to be changed and fast. But the politicians don't care. I don't care about the people in the subway. They care about their own power base and ideology.