On the same day that US Marine Daniel Penney was indicted for manslaughter in New York, a similar incident was unfolding on another subway car. A mentally-disturbed ex-con named Devictor Ouedraogo was pacing the car, taking off his shirt and threatening to “erase” the passengers. He began threatening one couple, and after he punched the young woman in the face, her companion, 20-year-old Jordan Williams, pulled a knife and stabbed him twice. Ouedraogo died, and now Williams, too, is facing manslaughter charges.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/juliorosas/2023/06/15/nyc-da-charges-man-who-protected-girlfriend-from-crazed-assaulter-n2624566

The twist is that Twitter mobs accused the white Penny of racism for defending the passengers from a threatening, mentally-deranged black man who’d been arrested and released over 40 times. They can’t do that with Williams, who is black himself. Even his own mother drew parallels with Penny in pleading for her son’s release from the Rikers Island jail, writing, “He should not suffer because he cannot afford bail on a case where he simply was justified in the actions he took.” She noted that Penny was bailed out immediately because supporters donated funds, but worries her son won’t be, even though they both acted in self-defense.

It's a good point, also made by the New York Post’s Nicole Gelinas, that conservatives should also support Williams or else he’ll be kept in jail and forced to accept a plea for defending himself and his girlfriend against a dangerous ex-con who was assaulting them.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/daniel-penny-s-indictment-won-t-change-the-roots-of-the-nyc-subway-crime-crisis/ar-AA1cC6HM

The cruel irony is that both of these men, and I assume, anyone else who defends himself from a criminal who’s been repeatedly released by the NYC DA, will be charged by that same DA for defending himself.  The people who are really responsible for all the crime, fear, assaults and deaths are the leftist DAs who reflexively side with criminals over law-abiding citizens. The best you can say about them is that these two cases prove they aren’t racist: they will charge law-abiding citizens for defending themselves, regardless of their color.

Of course, the DA's never have to worry about defending themselves from the criminals they’ve freed, since they have police protection and never take the subway. They should be forced to ride it every day with no protection and see what they’ve created. Better yet, they’re the ones who should be in a jail cell on Rikers Island, paying for all the blood that’s on their hands.

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