Here in New York, the trial for a white former U.S. marine who choked Black street performer Jordan Neely to death on a subway train in May 2023 began this week in a Manhattan court. Daniel Penny is facing charges of second-degree manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide for holding Neely in a chokehold until he died. Neely, a 30-year-old beloved street performer, was unhoused and hungry, and crying out for help when the ex-marine attacked him. Neely was well known to New Yorkers and tourists as a talented Michael Jackson impersonator.