Three of the suspects who allegedly vandalized an F practice in Brooklyn.
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Police are trying to find a gaggle of mask-wearing vandals who allegedly plastered an F practice in Brooklyn final week with statements concerning the Daniel Penny case.
In keeping with legislation enforcement sources, at the least 9 suspects had been on board a northbound F practice on the Neptune Avenue station in Coney Island at round 4:24 a.m. on Dec. 5 after they coated the inside of the practice with messages that repeated, “A man was lynched here.”
The statements appeared to reference the continued trial of Penny, who’s dealing with trial for the choking loss of life of Jordan Neely, a homeless subway performer, again in Might 2023 on board an F practice on the Broadway-Lafayette Streets station in NoHo.
Jordan Neely impersonating Michael Jackson earlier than his loss of life.GoFundMe/Carolyn Neely
Police sources mentioned the messages had been a sequence of stickers wrapped all through the practice’s inside to nearly seem like conventional adverts. A bunch of grownup women and men positioned them all through the practice automotive; many of the vandals, police mentioned, wore hoods, hats and face masks.
Officers from the sixtieth Precinct and Transit District 34 had been alerted to the incident. So far, no arrests have been made.
Regardless of the character of the statements, police couldn’t affirm if the vandalism was a protest response in response to Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin Bragg’s transfer to drop manslaughter prices in opposition to Penny on Friday. The choice got here after three days of jury deliberations, throughout which they deadlocked on the manslaughter cost.
Nonetheless, a Dec. 6 article on Hyperallergic, a recent arts discussion board, reported that an “autonomous group of activists” boarded the F practice that very same day on the Broadway-Lafayette Avenue cease and the Bleecker Avenue station in SoHo to publish the “A man was lynched here” messages.
Former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny exits the courtroom for a break throughout his trial for the loss of life of Jordan Neely, man whose loss of life has been dominated a murder by the town’s health worker after being positioned in a chokehold on a subway practice, on the Manhattan Prison Courtroom in New York Metropolis, U.S., December 3, 2024. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
Jurors within the Penny trial will deliberate once more on Monday on a lesser cost of criminally negligent murder after it deadlocked on a verdict following greater than three days of deliberation.
In the meantime, the investigation concerning the vandalism on the F practice stays ongoing.
On Sunday, the NYPD launched photographs and video of the suspects who stay at massive. The video reveals the suspects getting into the practice station via the turnstile.
