Daniel Penny, 24, is the man accused of putting Jordan Nealey in a chokehold. His mother was strangled to death when he was 14 and he struggled with mental illness since then. He made a living from what we could tell as a moonwalking Michael Jackson impersonator who danced on the subways and on the subway platforms of New York City until at least 2009. The NYPD has not given any official statement about his criminal history but other outlets have reported on many arrests for low level offenses that nearly hadn't been passed.

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