Several speakers at the event lauded Penny, who was acquitted on a charge of criminally negligent homicide earlier this month in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely. According to witnesses, Neely had been shouting and threatening other passengers.

Daniel Penny, a former U.S. Marine who restrained a New York City subway rider with a chokehold and was this week acquitted of homicide in his death, will attend Saturday's Army-Navy football game as Vice President-elect JD Vance's guest.

Former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny accepted Vice President-elect J.D. Vance’s invitation Friday to be his personal guest at the upcoming