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New book revisits Jordan Neely’s fatal subway encounter

Summarised by Spiced Kopi · 28 October 2026, 18:07 UTC ·10 sec listen

Journalist Anand Giridharadas returns to the 2023 New York subway killing of Jordan Neely in his book Man in the Mirror. It examines how a frightened passenger, former Marine Daniel Penny, held Neely in a chokehold that proved fatal.

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