KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Daniel Penny, the man who was accused of criminally negligent homicide in the May 2023 death of a 30-year-old man on a New York City subway, was acquitted earlier this week.

Speaking publicly for the first time since his acquittal, Daniel Penny said he restrained Jordan Neely on a subway car last May for more than five minutes because Neely was “extraordinarily strong” ...

Penny did not testify during his criminal trial. The Fox interview is the first time Penny has spoken publicly in detail about the event, and the venue represented friendly terrain as Pirro thanked ...

Penny also faced a more serious second-degree manslaughter charge, but Judge Maxwell Wiley dismissed it at the request of prosecutors after jurors twice told the court they could not come to a verdict ...