Medical examiners in New York City have ruled Jordan Neely’s death a homicide after being placed in a rear-naked choke for multiple minutes on an NYC subway earlier this week.
Jordan Neely, identified as a 30-year-old homeless black man, was said to have been screaming and behaving erratically when a 24-year-old white individual approached and put him in the chokehold. Footage of the incident was caught by freelance journalist Juan Alberto Vazquez who wrote on Facebook that the men were in that position “for about 15 minutes while other passengers and the train operator called the police.