NEW: Legendary Golfer Comes Out In Support Of Daniel Penny

Legendary golfer Phil Mickelson offered his support to Marine veteran Daniel Penny, who is currently awaiting a verdict in Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s criminal case against him.

Penny was hit with multiple charges, including manslaughter and negligent homicide, after he subdued Jordan Neely, a homeless man who had been arrested 42 times, on a New York City subway line, Multiple witnesses have testified that Neely was telling passengers that he “wasn’t afraid to die” and was threatening to physically harm passengers when he was subdued by Penny.

Neely — who had a history of drug use and chronic issues — still had a pulse when New York City Police officers arrived on the scene. According to bombshell evidence that came out during trial, NYPD officers did not administer life-saving aid due to the fact that Neely was covered in filth.

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Despite these circumstances, Penny was arrested and charged by Bragg’s office in connection with Neely’s death.

Penny explains his side of the story in a pre-trial video statement

While the jury was deliberating, six-time major champion Phil Mickelson came out in support of the Marine veteran in an X post.

Mickelson was speaking in reference to a statement from Trending Politics News’ own Collin Rugg, who described Penny as a “model citizen” in an X post of his own.

“He is a breed of young men who are becoming less and less common. He puts his own safety at risk to help others.He didn’t cower or pull out his phone to film when Jordan Neely started threatening to k*ll people. Instead, he took it upon himself to protect subway passengers,” Rugg wrote. “He was praised by the passengers on the train but was ridiculed by the city of New York. He is the citizen that every mayor of every city should want more of. He is the person you hope is around if your loved ones’ lives are being threatened. Anyone who is quiet about this injustice lacks moral clarity and should take a long look in the mirror. ”

“Daniel Penny is a hero,” the post concluded.

In a quote tweet, the legendary golfer stated that he “agreed.”

“Thank you Daniel for serving your country and for protecting the many passengers whose lives were threatened by this violent and deranged individual,” Mickelson added.

Agree. Thank you Daniel for serving your country and for protecting the many passengers whose lives were threatened by this violent and deranged individual. https://t.co/tUI5pe7pFV

— Phil Mickelson (@PhilMickelson) December 6, 2024

Mickelson is far from the only public figure to offer his support to Penny while the jury deliberates. America’s Most Wanted founder John Walsh recently took time out of a segment on the UnitedHealthcare CEO assassination to discuss the trial and likewise describe Penny as a “hero.”

“And here we’ve got a a marine risking his life to jump on a guy. And then the victim, Jordan Neely, he’s a mentally ill guy, been arrested 27 times. The whole society let him down,” Walsh told Fox News host Jesse Watters. “We’re the richest, most powerful country on the planet. We couldn’t get this guy help. But then they try to turn it into a race thing.”

“I have a son who lives in Brooklyn he says, ‘dad, those of us that can afford Uber do it, but the people on the subway are people who can’t.’ The  dishwashers and the people coming in the city, it’s a horrible thing that the city of New York is doing to this guy. The DA’s office really needs to be held accountable.

On Friday, after several days of deliberations, the jury was unable to come to a consensus on the manslaughter charge. Prosecutors then asked a judge to drop the manslaughter charge so that the jury could deliberate on the negligent homicide count, a move former assistant U.S. attorney Andy McCarthy described as an attempt to “strong-arm” the jury into a compromise verdict.

“This really was never a recklessness case, the evidence doesn’t lend itself to that. I think he threw in the recklessness charge in the hope that it would increase his odds of getting a conviction by giving the jury something to basically compromise on,” McCarthy told Fox News host Neil Cavuto. “

“You know, he knew that they probably wouldn’t get him on the recklessness, so they could feel better about convicting him on the negligence, like they were being more fair. So what’s happened here is exactly that, in the sense that the recklessness charge after four days and 30 hours of deliberations is finally gone. But now the jury’s being told it’s got to come back and start from scratch on the negligence charge. And that’s really not the way the case was tried, because that was not the way the indictment tees it up.”

McCarthy believes that Penny’s legal team will have a “good basis” for an appeal if the Marine veteran is convicted.

“They took four days and 30 hours. They came into the judge this morning and said, ‘we can’t resolve the count that is in front of us.’ And he gave them the famous Allen charge,which is where the judge basically tries to strong arm the jury and to, you know, try to get back there and agree to something. They went back for a few more hours, still couldn’t agree. That’s a good time to call it a day, and that’s obviously not what they elected to do.”

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