‘The View': Joy Behar Met With Awkward Silence After Saying Jordan Neely Would’ve Been Allowed a Gun in Texas
thewrap.comkilled in a New York subway car on Thursday.In case you’re just getting up to speed, last week, a man named Jordan Neely was killed in New York, after yelling at passengers on a subway train that he was hungry and thirsty and tired of having nothing.
He was killed because another rider responded by putting him in a chokehold, despite the fact that Neely was not actually threatening anyone.
That passenger has not been arrested.To kick off the day’s Hot Topics discussion, the women of “The View” mourned the fact that the altercation ended in Neely’s death, rather than helping him to a shelter of some sort, but Behar argued that “it’s a very complicated story” and “not an open-and-shut case.”Pointing out that Neely had been arrested several times prior to the incident, and was actually on a list of homeless people at high risk, Behar noted that “the system failed that boy.” But, she also noted that the man who ended up killing him was a Marine, who was trained in proper chokeholds, and might’ve just “made a mistake.”As the conversation progressed, the women of “The View” got into detail about Neely’s prior arrests, with Sara Haines explaining that Neely had reached a deal with authorities and was battling drug addiction.“If he stayed clean for 15 months, they would reduce that charge for him.
But, you can’t make people stay if they don’t want to — and he had been in multiple times — or if they can’t, due to addiction problems,” she said.
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