100 CENTRE STREET, Nov 22 – The day after the Daniel Penny trial evidence closed on November 22, a new book was published about the case, "Daniel Penny for Your Thoughts," e-book and audiobook on Amazon here.
Inner City Press reporter Matthew Russell Lee live streamed the NYPD's perp walk on Elizabeth Street in May 2023, through the trial i November. He obtained and included the autopsy, court records - and some reflections of his character Kurt Wheelock, previously reviewed in New York magazine.
The book begins: "Onto a subway car like this one he got on, a muffin in his jacket pocket wrapped in plastic, a spleen speckled, it would turn out, by sickle cell disease. But that is not what killed him, Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran would say. Was it an improper blood choke, or the terror he inspired, in a lady from Park Slope with her baby, a Nike brand ambassador on the way to Rucker Park? Even the Bronx school girls said they were frightened, even if one did later drop the dime on the white man. That was prosecutor Jillian Shartrand's doing, to call the victim by his name and the defendant merely the white man. Of the decedent there was more, not only the mother stuffed in a suitcase but the channeling of Michael Jackson, dreams. Now to see a man lifeless on the subway's floor."
Audiobook and paperback coming.
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