'Who would you want on the train with you?': Defense lawyers make final plea to jurors, say Daniel Penny 'acted when others didn't' in closing statement

"Danny acted when others didn't," defense attorney Steven Raiser said during his closing statement in Manhattan Supreme Court. "He put his life on the line. He did that for perfect strangers."

Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran countered that the Marine veteran went 'way' too far by keeping the unarmed, mentally ill homeless man in a fatal chokehold for six minutes - long after he could reasonably have been considered a deadly threat.

"We are here today because the defendant used way too much force for way too long to way too reckless of a manner," Yoran said.

Raiser invited jurors to imagine how they would have felt had they been on the F train car where Neely - a 30-year-old homeless man with a history of mental illness and drug abuse - threatened straphangers before Penny put him in a chokehold.

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