As soon as social media seized on the story, it was turned into a kind of intellectual junk food:
Daniel Penny is either a hero or a vigilante. You have to pick.
Jordan Neely is either a career criminal who was finally put down or a victim of every systemic injustice in American life. You have to pick.
I tried to recover both of them as well as a lot of other people from that clickbait factory.
Anand Giridharadas, the author of Man in the Mirror: Hope, Struggle, and Belonging in an American City, sits down with The City Reporter’s Harry Siegel and guest co-host Nicole Gelinas of the Manhattan Institute to discuss his kaleidoscopic new account of the many lives touched by Jordan Neely’s fatal encounter with Daniel Penny.
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