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Shocking footage shown in Daniel Penny's trial shows the moment paramedics said Jordan Neely had a pulse

Shocking footage shown in Daniel Penny's trial shows the moment paramedics said Jordan Neely had a pulse

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

The chaotic bodycam footage that captured two police officers confirming that the unconscious Neely still had a pulse when she arrived at Fulton Station on May 1, 2023 was revealed to the jury in Penny's involuntary manslaughter trial in the Supreme Court of Manhattan shown.

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

In police bodycam footage shown in court Friday, first responders can be heard saying Jordan Neely still had a pulse. NYPD

Moments later, an officer was heard saying, “He's not breathing.”

In the video, medics could be seen trying to revive Neely using chest compressions, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a defibrillator device and a Narcan injection.

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 officers were unable to find a pulse a few minutes later.

An NYPD officer told prosecutors that Neely initially had a “weak pulse” when first responders arrived. NYPD
In the video, medics could be seen trying to revive Neely using chest compressions, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, a defibrillator device and a Narcan injection. NYPD
As emergency responders worked on Neely, a composed Daniel Penny (pictured in a tan jacket) could be seen standing calmly nearby. NYPD

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

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

Penny, 26, is accused of putting Neely, 30, in a fatal chokehold for more than six minutes on a crowded F train after the homeless man stormed onto the locomotive and behaved “erratically and threateningly” toward other passengers had behaved.

Penny is accused of holding Neely in a chokehold for more than six minutes on a crowded F train.
Multiple angles of the bodycam footage show first responders trying to shake the homeless man awake. NYPD

Penny, who faces up to 15 years behind bars, was also heard in the video telling responding officers that he had “knocked (Neely) down.”

Additional footage captured by NYPD Officer Dennis Kang's body camera shows the officer screaming, “My man! Stay with me… yo!” as he angrily shook Neely's stomach to wake him up.

“I felt a pulse a few times, but at first I didn't feel one…about the third time I felt a slight pulse,” Kang testified at direct examination, adding that he rubbed Neely's sternum but this did not perform rescue breathing even though you never see Neely breathing.

If convicted, Penny faces up to 15 years in prison. James Messerschmidt for NY Post

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

NYPD Sgt. Carl Johnson's bodycam showed officers from a different angle performing chest compressions on Neely before emergency responders arrived.

Johnson told the court that he ordered Narcan during the chaotic scene and claimed that Neely was an “obvious drug user and very dirty.”

The process is expected to take up to six weeks.

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