Jordan Neely's childhood friend had been searching the streets for him in months before chokehold death: ‘People still cared about him’

NEW YORK — The Michael Jackson hit “Man in the Mirror” now sounds a note of heartbreak for an old friend of Manhattan subway chokehold victim Jordan Neely. Christophe Palmer, 36, first met Neely when they were teens living in the same building in Washington Heights and had even been out searching the streets for him in recent months. Growing up together, Palmer’s younger friend was already honing his impersonation of the King of Pop — and taught Palmer to hear Jackson’s smash single with new ears. “He said, ‘Listen to it and think of yourself as a human being — who you are and who you are to y...