A photo of Daniel Penny riding the New York City subway has gone viral. Alex Kent/Getty Images Penny was acquitted back in December and the acquittal was divisive. To some, he is viewed as a hero ...

How thin is the line between hero and vigilante? It is razor thin, as the trial of Daniel Penny has shown. Penny is a white, former Marine who put Jordan Neely, a Black man, in a six-minute choke ...

A memo circulated to investors seems to imply that hiring Daniel Penny will be good for the VC's public safety business.

Mr. Penny, who was acquitted after choking a mentally ill subway passenger to death, will work for Andreessen Horowitz.

Conservative politicians and right-wing media portrayed Penny as a hero. After his acquittal, he received an invitation from Vance to attend the Army-Navy game. "Daniel's a good guy, and New York ...