MSNBC host Joe Scarborough on Tuesday slammed “progressives” for backing “laws that allow homelessness” as he reacted to Daniel Penny’s not guilty verdict.

Penny, a 26-year-old Marine veteran, was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide by a Manhattan jury on Monday in the death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway last year.

After Neely, a 30-year-old homeless street artist who struggled with mental health issues, allegedly began acting erratically on a subway car, Penny grabbed him from behind and took him to the floor in a chokehold that lasted several minutes, according to witnesses and video footage.

“The fact that some progressives have said, basically, ‘Let’s pass laws that allow homelessness,’” an incredulous Scarborough said Tuesday morning during “Morning Joe.”

“You look at San Francisco, you look at Los Angeles. As we’ve said all along, there’s nothing compassionate about that. There’s nothing progressive about that, leaving people with mental health problems on the street, no!”

The case divided New York City residents on topics like mental health issues and race relations.

Dozens of Black Lives Matter protesters demonstrated outside the courthouse as they awaited the jury’s verdict.

“The mental health system in this country, again, it’s just grossly insufficient,” Scarborough said. “Whether you’re talking about New York, whether you’re talking about Florida, whether you’re talking about California, you have people walking about on the streets that have mental health issues.”

Scarborough argued the US needs to invest more in mental health resources.

“We need to spend more money as a society taking care of those who have mental health challenges and not just say, ‘Yeah, you can live on the streets,’” he said. “Bad things happen.”

Penny’s not guilty verdict came after more than 20 hours of jury deliberations, and the dismissal of a more serious manslaughter charge.

During the four-week trial, prosecutors argued that Penny was “criminally reckless” and went “way too far” holding Neely in an approximately six-minute-long chokehold, even after he appeared to stop moving.

Defense attorneys said Penny was “fully justified” for holding down Neely, who witnesses said was scaring passengers.

They also questioned if there was enough evidence that Neely died from the chokehold, citing his schizophrenia, drug use and a genetic health condition.