Daniel Penny Interrogation Video Reveals Him Telling Detectives ‘I’m Not Trying to Kill the Guy’

EXCERPT:

MEDINA: “You learned how to grapple in the Marine Corps. What belt level you made it to?”
PENNY: “Green.”
MEDINA: “Green belt?”
PENNY: “Yeah. Yeah.”
MCCARTHY: “Is it good?”
PENNY: “It’s all right. I was a little bit, yeah. I should have went higher, man, you know.”
MEDINA: “Should have applied yourself more.”
PENNY: “Yeah. I mean, hindsight’s 20/20, right?”
MCCARTHY: “So he says, you know, if I don’t get this, I’m going to kill everyone.”
PENNY: “Going to jail forever. I’m willing to —”
MCCARTHY: “Yeah. Is it at that point, that’s when you get up and decide to put him in the hold?”
PENNY: “I was —”
MCCARTHY: “Because it looks like a sleeper hold to me. Like —”
PENNY: “Right, yeah.”
MCCARTHY: “— something similar to like —”
MEDINA: “I’m not trying to — like, I’m not trying to like kill the guy.”
MCCARTHY: “Right.”
PENNY: “I’m just trying to make, like, de-escalate the situation, right?”