![]() ![]() “‘I don’t mind going to jail and getting life in prison. ![]() ![]() Vazquez told NYT that Neely screamed, “‘I don’t have food, I don’t have a drink, I’m fed up,’” prior to being attacked. Video of the incident, which according to NYT was shot by freelance journalist Juan Alberto Vazquez, has since circulated online and shows Neely becoming unconscious while a conductor calls for police. That’s when a the 24-year-old Marine, who has not been identified, got in an argument with Neely and placed him in a chokehold.Ī second person came to help, as Neely struggled to escape the hold by flailing his arms and legs until he became unresponsive. The incident occurred on Monday, when Neely walked on the F train and began acting in a “hostile and erratic manner,” according to police. Jordan Neely, a Black man who had performed as a Michael Jackson impersonator, was killed on a New York City subway train by a Marine Corps veteran who put him in a chokehold, the New York Times reports. ![]()
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