It is entirely possible that Jordan Neely, the schizophrenic homeless man who died after accosting riders on a lower Manhattan subway car, had no intention of following through on his veiled threats that he wouldn’t “mind going to jail and getting life in prison.” It is fully possible that Neely, who had been arrested by the NYPD 42 times prior to his death last week, had no intention of punching a fellow passenger, as he had been arrested for doing four times previously.
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