‘America’s Most Want­ed’ Cre­ator John Walsh Calls Daniel Pen­ny Tri­al A ‘Trav­es­ty’

The man behind the pop­u­lar TV show “America’s Most Want­ed” has pub­licly denounced the tri­al against Daniel Pen­ny as a “trav­es­ty.”

John Walsh, who found­ed “America’s Most Want­ed” after his own son was kid­napped and mur­dered, appeared on Fox News Wednes­day night to dis­cuss the shock­ing mur­der of Unit­ed­Health­care CEO Bri­an Thomp­son in New York City. But before dis­cussing that sub­ject, Walsh said he want­ed to talk about the Pen­ny tri­al.

Pen­ny is on tri­al for the death of Jor­dan Neely, a men­tal­ly ill home­less man who was alleged­ly threat­en­ing pas­sen­gers on a New York City sub­way train.

“I just want to talk to you about [the] Daniel Pen­ny tri­al,” Walsh said when Fox host Jesse Wat­ters asked him about the mur­der of Thomp­son. “It’s the biggest trav­es­ty in the his­to­ry of this coun­try. That guy’s a hero.”

Walsh then explained that there were eight mur­ders on NYC’s sub­way this year, say­ing that they were up “60%.”

“And here we’ve got a Marine risk­ing his life to jump on a guy,” Walsh said. “And the vic­tim, Jor­dan Neely, he’s a men­tal­ly ill guy, been arrest­ed 27 times. The whole soci­ety let him down.”

“We’re the rich­est, most pow­er­ful coun­try on the plan­et. We couldn’t get this guy help. And then they try to turn it into a race thing,” Walsh added, refer­ring to Assis­tant Dis­trict Attor­ney Daf­na Yoran alleg­ing that race played a fac­tor in Penny’s deci­sion to sub­due Neely.

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Walsh said Pen­ny was a hero for pro­tect­ing the oth­er pas­sen­gers on the train, who tes­ti­fied that Neely was threat­en­ing them and that they feared for their lives.

“He should get a hero’s award,” Walsh said.

“I have a son who lives in Brook­lyn he says, ‘Dad, those of us that can afford Uber do it, but the peo­ple on the sub­way are peo­ple who can’t,’” Walsh added. “The dish­wash­ers and the peo­ple com­ing into the city … it’s a hor­ri­ble thing what the city of New York is doing to this guy. The DA’s office real­ly needs to be held account­able.”

Pen­ny is charged with sec­ond-degree manslaugh­ter and a less­er charge of crim­i­nal­ly neg­li­gent homi­cide. Jurors can find him guilty of one of the charges, or acquit him of all charges. If he’s found guilty of sec­ond-degree manslaugh­ter, he faces up to 15 years in prison. If found guilty on the less­er charge, he faces up to four years.

Jury delib­er­a­tions con­tin­ue on Fri­day.