CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings got into a brief dust-up with guest host Audie Cornish on Tuesday, after she implied that her compassion for Jordan Neely was rooted in her Christianity rather than her political beliefs.
The conversation came about in reaction to Monday’s not guilty verdict in the New York-based case against Marine Corps veteran Daniel Penny, who subdued a violent and threatening Neely using a choke hold. Though Neely was alive when police first arrived on the scene, he later died, and Penny was charged in relation to his death.
GOP strategist @ScottJenningsKY didn't hold back when Audie Cornish invoked religion to call Jordan Neely a victim. @DailyCaller pic.twitter.com/ZCOC7QuBot
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The discussion began with guest Geraldo Rivera, who argued that the case against Penny had been political from the start.
Cornish interrupted him, asking what he would say “to the parents of a victim who dies in this circumstance,” suggesting that Neely — who, by multiple accounts, had been threatening other subway passengers and behaving erratically before Penny and at least one other passenger stepped in to stop him.
“You keep referring to Neely as the victim,” Jennings said then, adding, “I think Penny is the victim in this case, and I think the people on the train are the victims.” […]
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