Kid Rock made a $5,000 contribution to Daniel Penny’s legal defense fund. Daniel Penny, a former Marine, was charged with second-degree manslaughter for choking Jordan Neely on a Manhattan subway earlier this month.

After the police first let Penny leave, protests broke up. The 24-year-old veteran turned himself in to the police on May 12. He was charged and is currently free on bond. If found guilty, he may spend up to 15 years in prison.

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Nearly 50,000 gifts totaling more than $2.2 million had been received as of Monday afternoon, more than doubling the amount given in just one day through the internet fundraising drive, which is being managed by Penny’s attorneys.

“Mr. Penny is a hero,” Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert James Ritchie, wrote alongside his donation. “Alvin Bragg is a POS — Kid Rock.” His pledge put him among the fund’s top donors.

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Neely, 30, was put in a chokehold by Penny on a train in a New York City tube station on May 1 and later died as a result. When a video showing Penny holding Neely for around three minutes surfaced in the days that followed, protests erupted across NYC demanding that Penny be charged with a crime.

Days later, Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan district attorney, declared that his office would charge Bragg with manslaughter without assembling a grand jury.

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Kid Rock made a $5,000 donation to Daniel Penny, a former Marine,’s legal defense fund. The singer made fun of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg in a statement that accompanied his gift on the website GiveSendGo.

Kid Rock backed Penny after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis linked to the site in a tweet that also criticized Bragg. ‘We must defeat the Soros-Funded DAs, stop the Left’s pro-criminal agenda, and take back the streets for law-abiding citizens,’ he wrote on Friday. ”We stand with Good Samaritans like Daniel Penny. Let’s show this Marine… America’s got his back.’