{"id":1925031,"date":"2023-05-05T12:26:34","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T16:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-aoc-spar-over-death-of-unstable-homeless-man-at-hands-of-former-marine\/"},"modified":"2023-05-05T12:28:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T16:28:41","slug":"nyc-mayor-aoc-spar-over-death-of-unstable-homeless-man-at-hands-of-former-marine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-aoc-spar-over-death-of-unstable-homeless-man-at-hands-of-former-marine\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor, AOC Clash Over Homeless Man&#8217;s Death by Ex-Marine."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnyc-mayor-aoc-spar-over-death-of-unstable-homeless-man-at-hands-of-former-marine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1925031&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and NYC Mayor Eric Adams Clash Over Homeless Man&#8217;s Death<\/h2>\n<h3>Background<\/h3>\n<p>On Monday, Jordan Neely, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/calif-girl-raises-32k-for-homeless-man-who-returned-grandmothers-wallet\/\" title=\"Calif. girl raises K for homeless man who returned grandmother\u2019s wallet\">homeless man<\/a> with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ten-times-deported-ms-13-gang-member-released-in-sanctuary-city-kills-girlfriend-in-front-of-their-daughter-then-commits-suicide\/\" title=\"Ten-Times Deported MS-13 Gang Member Released in Sanctuary City Kills Girlfriend in Front of Their Daughter, Then Commits Suicide\">criminal record<\/a>, died after being placed in a chokehold by a former Marine on a subway train in New York City. Witnesses reported that Neely was behaving erratically and shouting before the incident occurred. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-husband-charged-in-murder-of-his-wife\/\" title=\"Texas husband charged in murder of his wife\">medical examiner confirmed<\/a> that Neely&#8217;s cause of death was a &#8220;chokehold.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Following the incident, residents of New York City gathered to protest Neely&#8217;s death, with chants of &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; and &#8220;The Homeless Matter.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>The Clash<\/h3>\n<p>NYC Mayor Eric Adams called for assistance for unwell homeless people, stating that &#8220;any loss of life is tragic.&#8221; However, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez disagreed with Adams&#8217; statement, claiming that Neely was &#8220;murdered&#8221; and that Adams had &#8220;cut the very services that could have helped him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adams responded to Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s claims, stating that her comments were not &#8220;very responsible&#8221; and that the investigation into the incident should be allowed to take its course.<\/p>\n<h3>The Debate<\/h3>\n<p>The clash between Ocasio-Cortez and Adams highlights the ongoing debate over how to address homelessness and police reform in New York City. Ocasio-Cortez has been a leading advocate for shifting resources away from police forces and towards <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nyc-mayor-aoc-spar-over-death-of-unstable-homeless-man-at-hands-of-former-marine\/\" title=\"NYC Mayor, AOC Clash Over Homeless Man's Death by Ex-Marine.\">community social programs<\/a>, while Adams has called for a more balanced approach.<\/p>\n<h3>Key Points<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Jordan Neely, a homeless man with a criminal record, died after being placed in a chokehold by a former Marine on a subway train in New York City.<\/li>\n<li>Residents of New York City gathered to protest Neely&#8217;s death, with chants of &#8220;Black Lives Matter&#8221; and &#8220;The Homeless Matter.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>NYC Mayor Eric Adams called for assistance for unwell homeless people, while Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Neely was &#8220;murdered&#8221; and that Adams had &#8220;cut the very services that could have helped him.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The clash highlights the ongoing debate over how to address homelessness and police reform in New York City.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Download the Daily Wire app to stay up-to-date on this and other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dangerous-top-fbi-official-had-close-relationship-with-dozens-of-journos-accepted-tickets-to-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/\" title=\"\u2018Dangerous\u2019: Top FBI Official Had Close Relationship With Dozens of Journos, Accepted Tickets to White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner\u00a0\">breaking news stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) sparred with New York City Democratic Mayor Eric Adams\u00a0over the death of Jordan Neely, a homeless man with an extensive criminal record, at the hands of a former Marine. Witnesses said Neely embarked on an aggressive rant in a subway train on Monday afternoon, moving erratically and allegedly screaming that he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":1925032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[8334,5673,6499,7144,4586,13275,4602,7332],"class_list":["post-1925031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-aoc","tag-clash","tag-death","tag-ex-marine","tag-homeless","tag-mans","tag-mayor","tag-nyc"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}