In a live streamed address Wednesday, Mayor Eric Adams said Jordan Neely, a Black homeless man who was killed in a fatal chokehold by ex-Marine Daniel Penny last Monday, “did not deserve to die” — something many New Yorkers have called on the mayor to say for the past nine days.
During the speech, Adams expressed sympathy for Neely’s family, while acknowledging that Neely’s severe mental health issues weren’t the reason for his death.
