Defense shows Daniel Penny saw the humanity in everyone on the F train not just Jordan Neely

Throughout his manslaughter trial, Daniel Penny has been stoic, disciplined and emotionless — never cracking a smile or a frustrated grimace.His posture is so straight, you could hang a painting flush against his back.The 26-year-old’s been a blank slate for anyone to project upon.

Is he a former jarhead adrift? A cold loner who told cops that he “put [Jordan Neely] out.” A vigilante, as protesters outside the courtroom have called him?He is none of those things.According to character witnesses — including two Marine Corps sergeants who served with him, childhood friends, his siblings and his mother — “Danny’s” straight face belies a “softness” and compassion.He remains a man connected to his childhood roots in West Islip, Long Island, where the surfer was a lacrosse standout and played bass in local orchestras.“He was so kind.

If anything he was extra kind … He always spoke up,” Penny’s childhood friend Alexandra Fay told the jury Monday.A case for canonization, this hardly makes.But, then again, this is not a man who belongs behind a defense table fighting charges of manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide.On Monday, the prosecution rested after a grueling three days of testimony from medical examiner Dr.

Cynthia Harris, who said that Jordan Neely was killed solely by Penny’s chokehold even if, it turned out, Neely had enough drugs in him “to put down an elephant.”Penny’s defense started as news was breaking about madman and violent criminal Ramon Rivera fatally stabbing three innocent strangers in a spree across Manhattan — a reminder of the real and random terror that has been unleashed onto the citizens of New York City by progressive policies.First, Penny’s attorney Thomas Kenniff called the defendant’s sister Jackie, who spoke of their close relationship, their outdoorsy childhood and his bond with their grandparents, strengthened after their parents’ divorce.Then Gina Flaim-Penny said her son wanted to...