Dramatic bodycam footage played in court on Friday showed first responders trying to revive a lifeless Jordan Neely after former Marine Daniel Penny put the troubled homeless man in a chokehold on a Manhattan subway last year.
The video was shown to jurors in Penny’s highly charged manslaughter trial in Manhattan Supreme Court in the May 2023 death of subway busker Neely.
“He’s not breathing,” one officer could be heard saying.
In police bodycam footage shown in court Friday, first responders can be seen trying to revive a lifeless Jordan Neely. NYPDMedics could be seen in the video using different methods to try to bring Neely back, including chest compressions, CPR, a defibrillator machine and an injection of Narcan.
As the EMTs worked on Neely, a composed Penny could be seen calmly standing nearby chewing something that may have been gum.
An autopsy showed Neely had K2 in his system at the time of his death, according to the defense.
The video was played during the testimony of the first trial witness, NYPD Officer Teodoro Tejada.
Tejada testified that Neely initially had a “faint pulse” when first responders arrived — but that officers could no longer find a pulse minutes later.
Tejada also searched Neely for weapons but only found a muffin in his jacket.
At one point during the video, Penny could also be heard telling officers he “put [Neely] down.”
Jurors later in the day were shown two more bodycam videos taken by arriving officers.
Chaotic footage taken from the body camera of NYPD Officer Dennis Kang showed the cop yelling, “My man! Stay with me … yo!” as he furiously shook Neely’s stomach in a bid to jolt him awake.
![As the EMTs worked on Neely, a composed Daneil Penny [pictured, wearing tan jacket] could be seen calmly standing nearby. NYPD](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/11/police-officer-tejada-s-body-92826850.jpg?w=1024)
As the EMTs worked on Neely, a composed Daneil Penny [pictured, wearing tan jacket] could be seen calmly standing nearby. NYPDVideo from the bodycam of NYPD Sgt. Carl Johnson, meanwhile, showed another angle of arriving officers giving Neely chest compressions, but not mouth to mouth resuscitation, before EMS workers arrived.
Penny, 26, is accused of putting Neely, 30, in a chokehold for more than six minutes on a crowded F train after the homeless man burst onto the train “acting erratically and menacingly” toward straphangers.
He faces up to 15 years behind bars.
The trial is expected to last up to six weeks.
