Cruz says Penny should sue Bragg

 Daily Caller:

Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is calling on Daniel Penny to go after Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg following Penny’s Monday acquittal by a New York City jury in his subway chokehold case.

Bragg failed to convict the 26-year-old Penny for criminally negligent homicide in relation to an incident in which Penny confronted and subdued Jordan Neely, a homeless man who was high on drugs and threatening passengers in a New York subway car in May 2023 before Penny subdued him. Following Penny’s acquittal, Cruz urged the former U.S. Marine to sue Bragg for malicious prosecution in a statement obtained exclusively by the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Alvin Bragg is an absolute catastrophe. First, he indicted Donald Trump in a partisan case, and then he indicted Daniel Penny for saving the lives of other subway passengers from a deranged lunatic threatening to kill everyone,” Cruz said in the statement. “Penny should sue Bragg for malicious prosecution and hold this rogue Soros prosecutor accountable.” (RELATED: BLM Leader Calls For ‘Black Vigilantes’ To Descend On Cities Following Daniel Penny Acquittal)

Bragg prosecuted President-elect Donald Trump and managed to convict him on 34 felony counts related to an alleged scheme wherein Trump falsified business records as part of a broader effort to “corrupt” the 2016 presidential election. Bragg, whose 2021 district attorney campaign received hundreds of thousands of dollars from left-wing megadonor George Soros via his Color of Change PAC, has also drawn intense scrutiny for being soft on criminals in his capacity as Manhattan’s top law enforcement officer.

Neely had been arrested 42 times before his encounter with Penny and had concerning mental health and substance abuse issues. Many observers and analysts believed that Bragg should have never brought the case against Penny given the circumstances surrounding Neely’s death, including the fact that Neely had not yet died at the time that police officers arrived on the scene.
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It is hard to see how Alvin Bragg could get elected without the help of George Soros. Soros is an obviously wealthy man who apparently likes prosecutors like Bragg.  I think Bragg has been a disaster for New York.  His case against Trump makes no sense to me other than an attempt to try to bar him from running for president.  Voters clearly were not persuaded that Trump was some sort of bogus businessman.

Daniel Penny strikes me as a heroic figure trying to protect the innocent.  It is absurd to try to criminalize him for protecting people 

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