It was pretty obvious to me Daniel Penny was not going to be convicted of “manslaughter.”
Woke has cooled down a lot. Presumably, that’s because some kind of super-advanced computer models determined that whatever is left of civil society would collapse if it was pushed any further, and people would start lynching Jews.
If Derek Chauvin was on trial this week, he might have gotten off, and it’s likely that case will be appealed successfully.
Penny is young and handsome, a former marine, he fits into the supposed American ethos of the lone hero taking matters into his own hands. But what he did was much closer to a crime than what Chauvin did (not that what Penny did was illegal, but charging him with manslaughter was less obscene than charging a cop with murder and saying he should have just let the criminal go).
