'Good Samaritan'? Ron DeSantis defense of subway vigilante stokes controversy
Gov. Ron DeSantis was somewhere in the Midwest when he leaped into a controversy involving a killing on a New York subway, using a religious parable to make his point.
“We must defeat the Soros-Funded DAs, stop the Left’s pro-criminal agenda, and take back the streets for law abiding citizens. We stand with Good Samaritans like Daniel Penny. Let’s show this Marine… America’s got his back,” DeSantis tweeted Friday.
Penny choked out a man on a New York City subway May 1. He faces a manslaughter charge after killing the man in the wake of threats to passengers.
DeSantis’ fundraising appeal only helped to bolster what is, at this writing, close to a million dollars banked for Penny’s legal defen...
