As I’ve written many times, when the race-baiting left are at it, simply flip the script. Try saying whatever they’re saying about ‘white people’ and change it to ‘black people’, and see how it would fly. If it’s racist to say about blacks, it’s racist to say about whites, too.
Imagine, for instance, if the defence in the George Floyd trial had referred to the deceased merely as ‘the black man’. Even more cities would have burned.
Yet, it’s just fine to do it to a white man.
Just to really rub the hypocrisy in, by the way, this by people who accused ‘the white man’ of not seeing a black man’s humanity. Yes, they really said both of those things.
On day two of his manslaughter case, Daniel Penny ceased having a name.
He became merely “the white man.”
During the prosecution’s opening statements on Friday, they asked why Penny, 26, did “not see Mr Neely’s humanity.”
On Monday, the Marine Corps veteran – facing 15 years for the subway chokehold that killed mentally ill homeless man Jordan Neely – was reduced by the same prosecution to his race and sex.
Over and over.
It started when a witness, bystander Ivette Rosario, who shot a short, shaky video of the incident, took the stand. Rosario clearly didn’t know Penny’s name, so she referred to him as ‘the white guy’.
But she was not corrected by Assistant DA Jillian Shartrand, nor did the lawyer inform Rosario of the defendant’s name. Instead, Shartrand adopted it as her own, calling him “the white man.”
Shartrand continued to question Rosario, referring to the defendant as such, more than a half a dozen times. It was jarring to hear it repeated so casually.
Given the racial undertones of the case, with BLM protesters hurling accusations of Penny being a “racist vigilante,” it felt doubly reckless. Even if it wasn’t wholly malicious.
Notably the judge, Democrat-appointed Justice Maxwell Wiley, failed to correct the prosecutor, either.
In fact, when Penny’s defense attorney, Thomas Kenniff, got up to cross examine Rosario, his client’s name was the first order of business. He clarified that “the white man” was indeed his client and kindly agreed with Rosario that they’d refer to him as “Danny” and Neely as “Jordan.”
Thus, “Danny” – sitting almost motionless in court – was finally back in the room.
At the same time, the identities of the jurors have had to be suppressed by the court, due to threats against their lives. High-profile Democrat politicians are willfully pre-judging the case.
This is sounding more and more like the mirror-image of Jim Crow-era show-trials.
Except that Jordan Neely was no Emmett Till.
The Bronx resident testified she, like most New Yorkers, has seen her share of underground nonsense and “situations,” she said, pointedly adding: “But not like that,” of Neely’s outburst when he boarded the train at 2 Avenue. According to witnesses Neely said “someone is going to die today” and he was “ready to go to Rikers” prison.
And on that short but harrowing ride, she was so nervous, that she testified how she buried her head in her friend’s chest and thought she might pass out […]
It’d be easier for us to all look away. Ignore how our city’s disastrous, “compassionate” policies toward the mentally ill and unhinged violent drug users have endangered everyday New Yorkers.
But one man didn’t look away during the chaos. And he’s standing trial for it.
It’s just another day in the Democrats’ ‘defund the police’ America.
