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LightningAce11 posted...

Oh the guy is a marine? Should look into his history to see how much he has killed before. This was his first response?

The man, a former marine who has not been identified, is being represented by Raiser and Kenniff, a Manhattan law firm whose founding partners were both in the armed services.

But Mr. Neelys attacker has not been arrested or charged with a crime, raising questions about how such cases are processed by New Yorks legal system and angering many left-leaning politicians and activists who have called the process racist. They have asked why the man, who appeared to be white, was not kept in custody, and argued that were he Black, he would have been.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/nyregion/subway-chokehold-arrest-decision.html

A 24-year-old man was taken into custody, police said.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/01/subway-rider-dies-after-being-put-in-chokehold-in-nyc/

Who is right? I have two news articles saying different things about him being arrested. Which is apparently a loaded term, arrest seems different from being taken from custody? Probably? At least the news articles seem to make that distinction. One thing "seems" certain, he's 24 years old and a marine. "Everyone" is reporting on those two facts but how would I know that they're all not just copy pasting the same shit from one primary journalist? No fucking clue.

The 24-year-old Marine veteran, who appeared to be white, was taken into custody and released without charges. His name has not been released publicly.

https://apnews.com/article/nyc-subway-death-headlock-c1b1383b3163f3f5d2c22a267bc52f41

I am inclined to believe that APnews is correct here however. He's a 24 year marine who DID get "arrested" or at least taken by the cops (taken into custody vs arrested) and released. So this MAYBE corroborates the claim from both news pages about him being arrested AND also not being arrested. Because he WAS arrested and released. So fucking weird to keep track of.

But again, you'd hope that if you're military trained you'd know what lethal force is. So there is no I copied a wrestling move and accidentally killed someone oopsie type of argument here. You were trained you should know what kills and what doesn't.

Hopefully, they release or allow people to see the train cameras. Then people will have a better understanding. All everyone has access to apart from the cops is what Juan said in his post and his video. The cops have the train cameras so I would hope the reason they released him is that not because he was white or a marine but because they saw the train camera dude was actually dangerous and marine guy saved people (which is odd because Juan said NONE of this and he'd look pretty bad as a witness if he failed to say any of this in his post). Or you know cops probably be corrupt saw white marine and was like you can go.