Daniel Penny, the man acquitted this week of criminally negligent homicide while restraining a threatening passenger on a New York subway, accepted Vice President-elect J.D. Vance’s invitation to the annual rivalry game on Dec. 14 between the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Naval Academy.
“Daniel’s a good guy, and New York’s mob district attorney tried to ruin his life for having a backbone,” wrote Vance on X, referring to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.
