Daniel Penny attended a swanky Manhattan Institute fundraising gala within the Large Apple Wednesday evening, the place left-wing protestors staged a “die-in” to denounce the occasion’s extravagance and its rich elite attendees.
Penny – the previous Marine who was acquitted of criminally negligent murder within the Might 2023 killing of Jordan Neely on a New York Metropolis subway – obtained a heat welcome from different friends as he arrived at Cipriani forty second Road in Manhattan for the Alexander Hamilton Award Dinner Wednesday evening.
Because the Marine vet and different attendees donned tuxedos for the black tie affair – named after the person who based The Publish – they had been greeted by throngs of demonstrators who sprawled out on the bottom outdoors the soiree with cardboard headstones blasting President Trump, Elon Musk and “Top MAGA-donor billionaires.”
“Billionaire tax cuts killed me,” one of many makeshift tombstones learn.
One other learn, “Trump helped the rich, not me,” with a cranium and crossbones etched on the prime.
Third Act NYC organized the “MAGA Billionaire Blockade” to rally in opposition to “oligarchs” related to the Trump administration and the richest man alive, who, they are saying, have opposed minimal wage will increase and common healthcare whereas privatizing public providers for private acquire.
“On May 7, we’re crashing their party,” the group mentioned in a name to motion for the “die-in.”
“Because New York City is not just a playground for a handful of billionaires. It is the home of over eight million hard-working New Yorkers who have had enough of the elites squeezing our communities so they can add another zero to their bank statement.”
Tickets to the awards dinner – held to acknowledge people contributing to city revitalization nationwide – had been priced as excessive as $250,000 for a desk of 12, based on the Manhattan Institute’s web site.
The bottom-priced ticket for a desk went for $15,000.
