Andre Zachary, the father of Jordan Neely is moving to file a civil lawsuit against Daniel Penny following the Marine veteran's acquittal by a Manhattan jury on Monday.

The family of Jordan Neely is moving forward with a civil lawsuit against Daniel Penny after the Marine veteran was found not guilty by a jury on Monday. The Manhattan jury acquitted the 26-year-old man of criminally negligent homicide after the more serious manslaughter charge was dismissed because the jury was deadlocked on that count.

Jordan Neely’s father was escorted out of courtroom after the watershed verdict finding Daniel Penny not-guilty was read. After the verdict was read, Andre Zachary began jawing with someone in the gallery behind him,

The hailing of Penny as a hero is part of a right-wing campaign directed against the homeless and the mentally ill, hundreds of whom have no place to live other than New York’s massive subway system.

Daniel Penny, the Marine veteran at the center of the New York City subway chokehold trial, has been found not guilty in the death of Jordan Neely. A Manhattan jury on Monday cleared Penny,

Daniel Penny speaks out for the first time since being acquitted in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely, in an interview with Fox News.

Daniel Penny and his attorneys spoke out Tuesday, one day after a jury found Penny not guilty for the chokehold death of Jordan Neely.