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“He moved his arms but he couldn’t express anything,” Vazquez said of Neely. “All he could do was move arms.
“Then suddenly he just stopped moving,” Vasquez recalled. “He was out of strength.”
A person can be heard in the video expressing worry about Neely’s wellbeing off-camera. The man who had been helping the straphanger hold Neely down replies that, “He’s not squeezing no more.” The two then let Neely go after a few seconds, leaving him lying on his side on the ground.
“None of us who were there thought he was in danger of dying,” Vasquez said. “We thought he just passed out or ran out of air.”
Vazquez said he had mixed feelings about the fatal encounter — particularly since he said Neely had not physically attacked anyone on the train before he was taken down.