NYC mayor Eric Adams defends Daniel Penny for protecting subway passengers.

Blasts the media for portraying Jordan Neely as an "innocent child."

Adams said Penny did what New York City "should have done as a city."

"You have someone on that subway who was responding, doing what we should have done as a city in a state of having a mental health facility."

"It seemed like it was a young, innocent child who was brutally m*rdered, and it gave that impression."

"When you look at the photo that was being used, it wanted to set up in the minds of people that we were dealing with a young, innocent child, just a Michael Jackson imitator that was just brutally assaulted."