The Daniel Penny Verdict Is A Signal That The BLM Era Is Over

“If we don’t get no justice, they don’t get no peace!”

Those were the chants reportedly heard from inside the New York City courthouse where Daniel Penny sat waiting on Monday morning as jurors deliberated his fate. Outside, Black Lives Matter (BLM) protesters tried to bully the system into submission. Penny’s attorneys motioned for a mistrial, arguing that the chants amounted to jury intimidation. But Judge Maxwell Wiley denied the motion, saying he could “try to find” a room where jurors could deliberate out of earshot of the chants but was “not sure [he] could find one,” according to Matthew Russel Lee of the Inner City Press.

But despite the theatrics and threats from the protesters, the jury stood firm. On Monday, twelve New Yorkers refused to buckle under the weight of racial grievance politics. They acquitted Daniel Penny of criminally negligent homicide after the manslaughter charge had been dismissed on Friday. Perhaps this verdict serves as a bold sign that Americans have finally had enough of the BLM hysteria and mob mentality that demands guilt despite the facts so long as the accused is white.

After the May 2023 incident, leftists’ knee-jerk reaction was to convict Penny in the court of public opinion of murder before a trial. Such a response was deemed acceptable on the left. The same crowd that made George Floyd a martyr before any facts were established rushed to brand Penny a murderer. In their eyes, the narrative threshold for race-based violence was met: Penny was white and Neely was black.