Jon Voight Praises ‘Hero’ Daniel Penny, Blasts ‘Sick’ Luigi Mangione

Jon Voight is wanting on People to understand the excellence between correct and fallacious … taking a minute to reward Daniel Penny — who was found not accountable throughout the lethal choking of Jordan Neely — and slam Luigi Mangione, the suspected killer in Brian Thompson‘s murder.

We caught up with the actor following the large updates in Penny and Mangione’s respective New York situations … and Angelina Jolie‘s dad made his opinions crystal clear on the extraordinarily talked about true-crime tales.

As Voight put it … Penny must be hailed as a hero, and applauded the Marine veteran for having “the middle” to do what he did.

He continued … “Holy smokes, that may be a large deal. I have no idea if I may be as brave as him … The person did a unprecedented issue. There are heroes amongst us.”

As TMZ beforehand reported, Penny was acquitted after standing trial throughout the lack of lifetime of a 30-year-old homeless man named Jordan Neely, who had reportedly been threatening passengers on a NYC subway sooner than DP put him in a lethal chokehold.

Whereas Voight was all for construct up Penny throughout the aftermath of his not-guilty verdict, he was not taken with giving Mangione an equivalent time of day. He blasted the Ivy League grad, who has been generally known as a hero by some after being charged with murder throughout the UnitedHealthcare CEO killing … as he generally known as the taking footage “a sick issue.”

Voight even took a second to defend the variations throughout the two situations … noting it’s “important that people have some type of conscience.”

He added … “People have gotten to return to be being good residents themselves and have a extreme commonplace for his or her conduct. After which, they may have the flexibility to make a judgment on what’s going on on in entrance of them.”