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A witness admitted that he lied to the prosecution in the case of Daniel Penny, who is on trial for putting Jordan Neely in a chokehold in a New York City subway that allegedly led to his death. Eric Gonzales, 39, was not charged in exchange for testifying in the trial, Fox News reported. But Gonzales admitted he lied to District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s office when he was first interviewed. In his initial interview, Gonzales told police and prosecutors that he had been on the subway train with Neely and Penny and that Neely had attempted to hit him. He said this is why Penny put Neely in the chokehold, the Gothamist reported. Gonzales also said at the time that he had helped Penny hold Neely down, and when the two men let go, Gonzales asked Neely if he was okay, and Neely told him, “Yeah.” But on Tuesday, Gonzales admitted that he had made that story up. Assistant District Attorney Dafna Yoran asked Gonzales why he had lied. “I was trying to justify my actions for me having my hands on him,” Gonzales responded. Gonzales wasn’t in the subway car when Neely was making his alleged threats against other passengers. On Tuesday, he admitted that he had arrived after Penny already had Neely pinned to the ground. “Everybody was frantic and saying, call the cops, call the cops,’” Gonzales said, according to WFIN. “I see those two individuals on the floor, so I assumed one was trying to restrain the other until the cops came.” Gonzales later testified that he told Penny he could let go of Neely but wasn’t demanding that he do so. MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “I said I was gonna grab his hands so you can let go, giving him a different option to restrain him until police came,” Gonzales testified. “If I held his arms down he could let go of his neck. I didn’t think anything of it at the moment, I was just giving him an alternative.” Gonzales and Penny continued to hold down Neely, and told jurors that at one point he told Penny to loosen his grip on Neely, but later told him to tighten it. Video of the incident shows Gonzales telling Neely, “We’re not gonna let you go until the cops arrive.” Multiple witnesses have testified that they were afraid of Neely, who entered the train car and allegedly began ranting that someone was going to die that day and that he didn’t care if he went back to jail. These witnesses have all said they feared for their lives, with some even thanking Penny for stepping in, The Daily Wire reported. Penny faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted of manslaughter or up to 4 years if he’s convicted on the lesser charge of criminally negligent homicide.

Denzel Washington said he filmed a same-sex kiss scene, but it was ultimately cut from his upcoming film, “Gladiator II.” The 69-year-old Oscar-winning actor stars in Ridley Scott’s historical action film as Macrinus, a wealthy Roman businessman who keeps a stable of gladiators for sport, per Variety. The “Gladiator II” script says the character had been in relationships with other men in the past. This fact inspired an interviewer for Gayety to ask Washington, “How gay is the Roman empire?” “I actually kissed a man in the film but they took it out, they cut it, I think they got chicken,” the actor replied. “I kissed a guy full on the lips and I guess they weren’t ready for that yet. I killed him about five minutes later. It’s ‘Gladiator.’ It’s the kiss of death.” Scott responded to a question from The New York Times about Macrinus’ “hints of bisexuality” by saying, “There’s a twinkle.” MATT WALSH’S ‘AM I RACIST?’ NOW STREAMING ON DAILYWIRE+ “Also, he’s a gangster,” the director continued. “I think he was clearly a prisoner of war, went to the ring, earned his freedom, suddenly working in a giant bread factory and supplied bread for the Roman army. He maybe eventually took that over, then goes to munitions, so he’s an arms dealer. I thought that was his evolution. He said, ‘Oh, I like that. I’m a gangster.’” Paul Mescal, who plays Lucius Verus in the upcoming film, said he threw in an unscripted kiss scene and didn’t know how it would be received. The actor told CinemaBlend recently that he sporadically kissed Pedro Pascal, who plays Marcus Acacius, on the forehead during a fight scene. “I didn’t tell Ridley I was gonna do it. And then I was nervous after we did it because I thought he was going to f***ing hate it,” Mescal told the outlet. “So I nervously go over the radio being like, ‘Ridley? Did you like the kiss on the forehead? Yay or nay?’ And there was this kind of, like, [static] ‘I’m afraid I did.’ So I don’t know where it got lost in the edit, but I trust this man entirely, though. How he cuts his films.” Scott told the outlet that the deleted forehead kiss scene could make the director’s cut.  “Gladiator II,” the follow-up to a five-time Academy Award-winning historical epic from 2000, is already generating Oscar buzz, specifically for Washington. 

A post shared on social media purports X CEO Elon Musk banned DreamWorks from the platform for being too liberal. Elon Musk Bans DreamWorks Animation Permanently from X for Promoting Pride: “It’s Extremely Woke” pic.twitter.com/sNCeHTvGMR — War Baby (@barnsie40) November 12, 2024 Verdict: False The claim stems from satire. Fact Check: The Department of Government Efficiency, […]

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An image shared on Facebook purports to show former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Vice President Kamala Harris sitting together after the 2024 election results. Verdict: False The claim is false as the image shows Clinton and Harris at a November 2022 campaign event in support of New York Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul, according […]

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