Photo from the Broadway-Lafayette station by Jeremiah Moss
On Monday afternoon around 2:30, Jordan Neely boarded the uptown F train at the Second Avenue station. [Early reports mentioned that he entered the train on Second Avenue. That narrative has seemed to change.]
According to the Associated Press, "he was yelling and pacing back and forth on an F train ... witnesses and police said, when he was restrained by at least three people, including a U.S. Marine veteran who pulled one arm tightly around his neck."
Video taken by a passenger shows the unnamed 24-year-old former Marine holding Neely in a chokehold while other riders restrained him on the floor of a train. The former Marine was taken into police custody but later released later Monday without being charged.
Neely, who was 30, died from compression to his neck as a result of the chokehold, the medical examiner ruled yesterday.
Per the Times: "The episode, filmed on a nearly four-minute video that shows other riders helping to pin down Mr. Neely while others looked on, has led to a police investigation and spurred advocates for the homeless, city officials and others to call for an arrest."
And from The Guardian: "Advocates argued that the circumstances surrounding Neely’s life and death — his struggles with homelessness, food insecurity and mental health struggles — reflected longstanding failures to provide social services to impoverished New Yorkers."
Here are some of the headlines about the death of Jordan Neely and the aftermath...
• NYC subway chokehold death ruled a homicide, as groups demand justice for Jordan Neely (NBC News)
• Possible charges against Marine in chokehold death of Jordan Neely as NYPD and Manhattan DA confer (Daily News)
• Who killed Jordan Neely? (Hell Gate)
• Mayor Adams and police criticized for lack of action over Jordan Neely's death (The Guardian)
• Outrage grows after Jordan Neely was choked to death on the subway (New York)
• Jordan Neely NYC subway chokehold death sparks outcry: 'We've got a deep problem' (USA Today)
• Who was Jordan Neely? Friends recall 'sweet kid,' talented performer killed in subway chokehold (Gothamist)
• Eyewitnesses react to subway killing of Jordan Neely (Gothamist)
