Calls for Justice and Mental Health Reform After Jordan Neely's Chokehold Death on NYC Subway

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Politicians and protesters are demanding accountability after a 24-year-old New York City subway rider put a homeless man in a fatal chokehold. Jordan Neely, 30, was a subway busker who performed dance routines in costume as Michael Jackson and was struggling with mental illness. He was homeless when he was killed Monday after an altercation on a northbound F train, police said. The manner of death was homicide, the city chief medical examiner's office said, and the cause was “compression of neck (chokehold).” Protests are planned across the city.
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