New York Post
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Daniel Penny, a former Marine, is charged with second-degree manslaughter in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely, 30.
Peter Bergen: Left-wing commentators have suggested Penny was a white vigilante, a bulwark of white supremacy.
He says the impulse to protect others is deeply admirable and rare.
Bergen says there's no indication Penny was motivated by racial animus.
Of course, if Penny had reacted the same way countering a perceived threat from a white man, the tragic event would be a blip; it’s the catnip of a purported racial incident and the opportunity to put Penny, with no justification, in the company of long-ago racists acting extra-legally to intimidate and kill blacks that makes the case irresistible to progressives. Penny’s appointed role is to be an archetype, the “white vigilante,” with no room for nuance or complication — or even an accurate definition of vigilantism..
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