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Shocking footage released at Daniel Penny’s trial shows the moment emergency doctors said Jordan Neely had a pulse
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Shocking footage released at Daniel Penny’s trial shows the moment emergency doctors said Jordan Neely had a pulse

Shocking footage played in court showed the moment first responders said Jordan Neely still had a pulse after ex-Marine Daniel Penny put the troubled homeless man on a Manhattan subway block last year.

The chaotic body camera footage, which captured two police officers confirming an unconscious Neely still had a pulse when she arrived at Fulton Station on May 1, 2023, was shown to jurors in Penny’s manslaughter trial in Manhattan Supreme Court .

“I feel a pulse,” one officer said, while a second officer confirmed Neely “had a pulse” before he later died.

In police body camera footage shown in court Friday, first responders are heard saying Jordan Neely still had a pulse. NYPD

Moments later, an officer could be heard saying, “He’s not breathing.”

Medics could be seen in the video trying to revive Neely with chest compressions, CPR, a defibrillator and an injection of Narcan.

An NYPD officer told prosecutors that Neely initially had a “weak pulse” when first responders arrived. NYPD

The dramatic footage was played as NYPD Officer Teodoro Tejada testified as the trial’s first witness on Friday.

The officer told prosecutors that Neely initially had a “weak pulse” when first responders arrived — but that officers could no longer find a pulse minutes later.

Medics could be seen in the video trying to revive Neely with chest compressions, CPR, a defibrillator and an injection of Narcan. NYPD

Tejada also searched Neely for weapons, but found only a muffin in his jacket.

A peaceful Penny could be seen calmly standing next to Neely’s unconscious body casually chewing what may have been gum, according to the footage.

As emergency medics worked on Neely, a peaceful Daniel Penny (pictured, wearing a tan jacket) could be seen sitting calmly nearby. NYPD

Penny, 26, is accused of fatally choking Neely, 30, for more than six minutes on a crowded F train after the homeless man exploded in locomotive “acting erratically and threateningly” towards other passengers.

Penny is accused of choking Neely for more than six minutes on a crowded F train.

Penny, who faces up to 15 years behind bars, could also be heard on the video telling responding officers he “knocked (Neely) down.”

Additional footage taken from NYPD Officer Dennis Kang’s body camera showed the officer yelling, “My man! Stay with me… me!” as he angrily shakes Neely’s stomach in an attempt to shake him awake.

“I felt a pulse a few times, but initially I didn’t feel a pulse … about the third time, I felt a slight pulse,” Kang testified on direct examination, adding that he rubbed Neely’s sternum and did not he did it. administer rescue breaths, even though you never saw Neely breathe.

He testified that the police did not have the proper equipment when they arrived at the scene.

Multiple angles of the body camera footage show first responders trying to wake the homeless man. NYPD
Penny faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. James Messerschmidt for the NY Post

Body cam of NYPD Sgt. Carl Johnson showed officers from a different angle performing chest compressions on Neely before EMS workers arrived.

Johnson told the court he ordered Narcan during the chaotic scene, claiming Neely was an “apparent drug user and was very dirty.”

The process is expected to take up to six weeks.