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prosecutors are warning that if jack teixeira is set free he could keep spilling national secrets all over the internet. now it's up to a judge to decide whether to keep the 21-year-old behind bars. but we begin here in new york city where earlier today a funeral was held for jordan neely who died after a fellow new yorker placed him in a chokehold on a local subway. neely's death fueling familiar, albeit passionate debates, over several of the country's intractable channels, mental illness, homelessness, and vigilante justice. and today even as family and friends grieved a devasta...

And so we have to understand not just the racialized underpinnings of this particular interaction between jordan neely and patrick daniel penny, but we also have to understand the racist underpinnings of the history of the united states and how black people are treated by the police department versus white people. so, yes, daniel penny will get his day in court through the manhattan d.a.'s office, but we have to recognize the initial interaction we had with the new york police department is not something that any black american in the city of new york would have the luxury of having ever. >> a...

Yorkers specifically. but instead, these are the fights that we're having. we're seeing a systemic defunding of social services that are desperately needed in everything from housing and education and mental health services and that money, those buckets and buckets of money are going into the nypd, and every single policy piece of paper and data has shown us that over policing does not contribute to a safer society in any capacity. daniel penny choked jordan neely for 15 minutes, there was not a single police officer on there. so as we continue to, you know, fund the police, the nypd or transi...

Other side as well on behalf of the man accused of his death. daniel penny has been held up as a hero by many, particularly in conservative circles. as of this morning, a crowd funding site had raised more than $2.6 million for his legal defense. i want to bring in nbc's rehema ellis, symone sanders townsend served as chief spokesperson for vice president harris and is host of "symone" on msnbc. christina greer, author of the blook "black ethnics." what was it like at that church there today? >> reporter: it was a solemn church filled with mourners, and the street here, adam clayton powell bou...