Alvin Bragg challenger criticizes decision to bring forward Daniel Penny trial as poor judgment.

Maud Maron, Alvin Bragg's challenger, claims that the Manhattan district attorney's decision to bring the Daniel Penny case to trial demonstrates his poor judgment.

On Monday morning, a Marine veteran named Daniel Penny was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide for the subway chokehold death of Jordan Neely, a 30-year-old schizophrenic homeless man with an active arrest warrant who was high on synthetic marijuana and had threatened to kill others.

"According to Maron, many New Yorkers breathed a sigh of relief with the verdict because the case should not have gone to trial. Maron believes that the case should not have been tried because too many New Yorkers have experienced similar situations on the subway, where a mentally ill or drug-addicted person is acting violently or threateningly. Maron has personally experienced this and knows that many other New Yorkers have as well. In Maron's opinion, Daniel Penny's actions were not criminal."

Daniel Penny did not want Jordan Neely to die, but nobody, including Maron, found it tragic that he did.

"The police who interviewed Daniel Penny and didn't charge him immediately, as well as the eyewitnesses on the subway who felt threatened but were grateful for his intervention, all point to the common sense understanding that what happened on the subway that day was not a crime, but rather a young man who had no criminal record and was serving his country, trying to do the right thing to protect others."

The candidate for Manhattan DA believes it is the responsibility of the voters to remove Bragg from his position.

"If we want a different outcome in the district attorney's office, we need a different person, and Alvin Bragg is not the solution, according to the voter in Manhattan who spoke to Planet Chronicle."

This report was contributed to by Planet Chronicle' Michael Ruiz, CB Cotton, Grace Taggart, and Kristine Parks.