Who Is Dafna Yoran, Prosecutor In Daniel Penny Subway Chokehold Trial?

Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran presented her arguements in the Daniel Penny NYC subway chokehold trial. She told the jurors that the 26-year-old former US Marine used ‘way too much force for way too long, in way too reckless a manner’ as he choked a Black man, Jordan Neely, last year. “The defendant was given all the signs that he needed to stop. He ignored them, he kept going, until a man died. He must be held accountable for that,” Yoran said on Tuesday.

Penny could face up to 15 years behind bars if convicted of manslaughter.

“He didn’t recognize that Jordan Neely was a person,” the Manhattan prosecutor added. “He saw him as a person that needed to be eliminated.”

She then replayed the video of Penny’s police interrogation, where the 26-year-old could be seen referring to Neely as a ‘crackhead’. He told detectives: “You know these guys, they’re pushing people in front of trains and stuff.”

“We’ve all spoken dismissively about people like Jordan Neely. Maybe we, too, have lumped them all together like this, but the context is very telling here. When the defendant is talking like this about Mr. Neely, he knows he very likely had killed him. Can you imagine a reasonable person speaking like this about a human being that he or she had just killed?” she added.

Who Is Dafna Yoran?

Dafna Yoran is a prosecutor in New York City who is currently representing the state in the high-profile trial of Daniel Penny, charged with manslaughter in the death of Jordan Neely on a subway in May 2023.

According to pro-Trump social media commentator Laura Loomer, Yoran is lesbian who is married ‘Peruvian pro-Black Lives Matter artist’ named Ana De Orbegoso.

Orbegoso lives in New York, the right-wing commentator added in a tweet.