Behold the Media’s Most Absurd Spin about ‘Beloved’ Jordan Neely
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When the media describe a man with more than 40 arrests as a “beloved street performer” who “enjoyed making people happy,” you can bet they’re trying to sell you a narrative. So it went with the story of Jordan Neely, the man who died of strangulation after being subdued by several fellow passengers on the New York City subway last week.
Neely had a lengthy history of criminality and mental illness. In 2015, he was caught trying to drag a 7-year-old girl down the street, resulting in a four-month jail sentence for attempted kidnapping. In 2021, he punched a 67-year-old woman exiting the subway, breaking her nose.
However the news media found Neely’s odious history to be far less compelling than the fact that he was black, and therefore automatically a poor victim according to their warped interpretation of morality. And so they dug through his past for something they could spin, until at last they found something workable: between his more than 40 other run-ins with law enforcement over the past decade, he also sometimes panhandled while dressed as Michael Jackson.
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