To crime-ravaged New Yorkers, former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny is a hero.

But to a woke assistant district attorney, the 26-year-old is a villain.

Penny is charged with manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide in the May 2023 death of Jordan Neely. Penny, who pleaded not guilty, allegedly used a fatal chokehold on Neely aboard an Uptown bound F train in Manhattan.

Witnesses said Neely was freaking out on the subway and terrifying other straphangers. Penny stepped in to try and quell the situation, and it spiralled out of control.

A Manhattan jury is now deliberating Penny’s fate.

“Those passengers were afraid. I’ve been on the subway system. I know what it is as a police officer to wrestle or fight with someone,” Big Apple Mayor Eric Adams said on the weekend.

“It is imperative that we look at the totality of this problem.”

Not so much for Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Dafna Yoran, who urged jurors to convict him of manslaughter on Tuesday.

This is the same prosecutor who asked for a reduced sentence for a violent mugger who murdered an 87-year-old man over $300 in 2019. She called the scheme “restorative justice.”

The victim in that case was hammered in the back of the head at an ATM. Instead of second-degree murder, the killer was convicted of manslaughter at Yoran’s behest.

Her motives align with those of soft-on-crime, George Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

Yoran later claimed she “saw an opportunity for a transformative outcome” and jumped on it. It was the first use of a “transformative justice” program in a homicide case. That changed a 25-year sentence to just 10 years behind bars.