Harmful protests erupted over the weekend in New York Metropolis as dozens demanded justice within the loss of life of Jordan Neely.

The New York Submit reported a number of individuals had been arrested after standing on the tracks and shutting down subway service Saturday between Lexington Avenue and East 63rd Avenue a bit after 6 p.m., forcing an oncoming Q prepare to slam on the brakes on the mouth of the tunnel.

Breaking: Protesters at the moment are disrupting the subway in NYC for Jordan Neely pic.twitter.com/NSO5UjAs7x

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Inflicting a extreme security hazard, energy needed to briefly be shut off within the Lenox Hill station. Protestors chanted “No justice, no peace!” and clashed with NYPD officers. In accordance to NBC 4, police have launched images of six protestors they need to query.

Final week, Neely’s loss of life made headlines. He was positioned in a chokehold by 24-year-old former Marine, Daniel Penny, for quarter-hour after he boarded a subway prepare and commenced hurling insults at passengers.

Richard Davey, head of New York Metropolis Transit, described the protestors’ actions as “harmful, reckless, and may be life-threatening.”

“Whereas peaceable protest has at all times been a part of American cloth, endangering transit staff and different responders, whereas additionally delaying New Yorkers simply making an attempt to get the place they should go, by intentionally risking contact with an electrified third rail, is unacceptable,” Davey mentioned.

A number of subway riders had been pissed off and begged officers to manage the scenario and take away the demonstrators.

White protesters scream at and stop a black man from going to work as a result of they’re making an attempt to protest the loss of life of a black man (Jordan Neely).pic.twitter.com/BGmTKhXtfX

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Within the midst of protests, authorized representatives for Penny launched a press release issuing “condolences to these near Mr. Neely,” highlighting Neely’s documented historical past of psychological sickness and claiming Penny “by no means meant to hurt Neely.”

New: Daniel Penny, the person who choked and killed Jordan Neely, has launched a press release by way of his attorneys pic.twitter.com/QvHS5N69sG

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