Our hero and media created protagonist, Daniel Penny; White Knight, Marine, clean-cut college student, minding his own business, quiet and peaceably heading to the gym, is billed to the public as the embodiment of Mighty Mouse, entering the subway singing, “HERE I COME TO SAVE THE DAY” and then promptly taking down the local scumbag and 42-times arrested public nuisance Jordan Neely, heroically saving everyone from sure death except, when it was over, Neely wasn’t the death merchant, Penny was.

Public support and sentiment for our hero is so overwhelming, a Google search seeking Penny’s past interactions with the police, instead, automatically shifts to the prior arrests of the man he killed.

Former police officer Derek Chauvin must be shaking his head from his jail cell, second-guessing himself for using his knee on George Floyd instead of the apparent Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free conventional chokehold Penny used.

Or maybe, there is an undercurrent of score-keeping here where public sentiment tends to even-up the scores on these high-profile, racially charged events that form and define the quality, conscience and character of our country, depending of course on which side we take.