Newsmax Panel Debate Over Jordan Neely Killing Causes Tempers to Flare: ‘If Someone Looks at Me Wrong… Should I Kill Them?’

thewrap.com:

told CNN. Neely’s death was ruled a homicide, and Penny has been charged with second-degree manslaughter for the fatal choke.

Newsmax host Jenn Pellegrino asked the panel if these charges marked “the beginning of the end of the Good Samaritan,” which sparked a lively shouting duel amongst the pundits. “You know, it certainly seems that way in [Manhattan District Attorney Alvin] Bragg’s New York City,” Pellegrino continued. “I mean he goes after former President Trump, he’s focused on that, but the people that are out there either defending themselves from violent crime or defending others…”“There was no violent crime though,” retorted political analyst Jason Nichols, to which Pellegrino replied, “He was threatening people.”“No, but there was no violent crime,” Nichols said. “He didn’t attack anyone.

Violent crime means someone was attacked. Nobody was attacked. If someone looks at me wrong or screams at me, should I kill them?

Should I choke them to death? Should I come up behind them and put them in a rear naked choke?”“Probably, yeah,” “The Right Squad”host Chris Plante replied. “If he’s threatening to murder people on a subway train.”Several voices raised all at once, leading to an incoherent cacophony of shouting.“He did not threaten, he said he was hungry…” Nichols argued. “And being mentally ill is not a crime.