The trial of Daniel Penny continued today and during cross examination the defense showed police body camera footage of two witnesses who testified that they were very afraid of Jordan Neely that day and grateful when Penny intervened. The first was a woman named Alethea Gittings:
“He said, ‘I’m willing to die, I’m willing to die,'” another woman says.
In another video, that same woman says, “He scared the living daylights out of everybody.”
That witness told the jury she’s been riding the subway for over 50 years and has been threatened before, but this was the first time she was actually scared. She described Neely as resisting when Penny put Neely in a chokehold to restrain him…
She also said she went over to thank Penny after.
The other witness was a woman named Lori Sitro who was on the train with her young child.
Another woman on the train with her…
