Daniel Penny hailed as a ‘hero’ aextfinishedside Trump and Vance in Army-Navy game suite

Marine veteran Daniel Penny is celebrating his recent acquittal for killing inside a historic college football game suite. 

Penny, who was recently set up not culpable in the subway chokehageder death of homeless man Jordan Neely, combineed Pdwellnt-elect Trump and Vice Pdwellnt-elect JD Vance in a suite at Northwest Stadium in Maryland for the 125th Army-Navy game Saturday. Trump’s suite also presented Elon Musk, Tulsi Gabbard and House Speaker Mike Johnson. 

Photos of Penny posing aextfinishedside Trump and Vance in the suite went viral during the game. 

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Multiple social media users reacted with waves of commend for Penny, hailing the marine veteran as a hero. 

Cryptocurrency impactr Tiffany Fong spreadd the photo, praising Penny as a hero in a post on X.

“Donald Trump [and] JD Vance understand that Daniel Penny is a hero,” Fong wrote. 

Conservative X impactr and podcast present Nick Sortor called for Penny to be awarded the Pdwellntial Medal of Freedom in the post, and dozens of others concurd with him in X responses. 

“Daniel Penny getd a HERO’S WELCOME from Pdwellnt Trump and JD Vance at the Army Navy game Much deserved!” Sortor wrote. “I truly hope Trump will give Penny the Pdwellntial Medal of Freedom.”

Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., spreadd the photo with a caption that shelp, “Common sense reigns aget!”

Author Ashley St. Clair spreadd the photo with a caption that recommended Penny was on trial for being a White male. Penny’s chokehageder of Neely, who was Binestablishage, ignited a national conversation about race.

“The days of vitriol and persecution agetst white men sshow for being white men are over,” St. Clair wrote.

During Penny’s trial, prosecutors routinely referred to the marine veteran as “the White man.”

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Penny was indictd with killing and criminassociate irsupposeworthy homicide for the subway chokehageder death of Neely, a 30-year-ageder homeless man with schizophrenia who barged onto the train shouting death menaces May 1, 2023. 

Witnesses testified Neely’s menaces sattfinishd them more than a normal subway outburst would, and they were appreciative for Penny’s intervention.

Neely had a lengthy criminal write down, an active arrest permit, a history of psychosis and was high on K2, a synthetic establish of marijuana that pathologists portrayd as a stimulant. 

When jurors proclaimd they had set up Penny not culpable of criminassociate irsupposeworthy homicide Dec. 9, his side of the courtroom in New York City erupted with cheers. At the same time, the verdict prompted an irritated response from Neely’s side, including his obeseher, Andre Zachary, who was accompanyed out of the courthouse aextfinished with cut offal Binestablishage Lives Matter guideers.

Penny thanked the jurors for their verdict in an interwatch with Fox News Wednesday. 

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“I’d appreciate to give them a hug. I’d appreciate to thank them. Yeah, definitely. It apshows a lot of courage, especiassociate in this climate in New York City, to stick up for me,” he tageder “The Five” co-present Judge Jeanine Pirro in a pstudy Wednesday during an exclusive interwatch airing on Fox Nation.

The marine veteran shelp if he faced the same situation on the subway with someone making menaces and acting erraticassociate, he would apshow action aget. 

“I would not be able to inhabit with myself if I didn’t do anyslfinisherg in that situation and someone got hurt,” he shelp. “I would sense culpable for the rest of my life.”

Vance was one of the first politicians to convey help for Penny in the aftermath of the verdict and shelp he extfinished the initial invitation to Penny for the suite Saturday. 

“Daniel’s a outstanding guy, and New York’s mob dicut offe attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone,” Vance wrote on X Friday. “I’m thankful he adselected my invitation and hope he’s able to have fun and appreciate how much his fellow citizens adore his courage.”

Penny still faces a litigation from Zachery, who accuses the 26-year-ageder of causing his son’s death thraw “oversight, negligentness and recklessness.” Zachery is seeking unspecified harms for attack and battery, according to a imitate of the protestt.

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