Police in Florida smashed a driver’s window and hauled him out of his car after he mouthed off to them during a traffic stop. The entire incident was captured on camera. The man was then hit in the mouth.
Body camera footage from William McNeil’s violent February arrest was recently made public by Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters. It shows him disputing with cops over why he was stopped.
McNeil interrogates deputies who inform him that he was pulled over for failing to use his headlights in the rain. He locks himself in the car and demands a supervisor. When more deputies arrive, he continues to defend himself until they smash his window with their bare fists and pull him from the driver’s seat.
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The interaction was being recorded by more than just the police. In his car, McNeil set up his phone and began recording. His point of view depicts him getting a few blows to the face.
According to his mug shot, McNeil had a cracked lip when he was arrested.
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He was charged with marijuana possession, drug paraphernalia possession, and nonviolently resisting an officer, according to the arrest record. According to Sheriff Waters, McNeil entered a guilty plea and was found guilty of driving with a suspended license and peacefully resisting a police officer.
The sheriff claims that although the event is being reviewed administratively to see if any JSO policies were broken, prosecutors found that none of the officers engaged in the traffic stop had broken any criminal laws.
Sheriff Waters claims that Officer Bowers, who was identified as the officer who punched McNeil and broke the window, has lost his law enforcement authority.
Harry Daniels, one of McNeil’s lawyers, tells TMZ “They beat him and break his window after he merely requests a supervisor, yet the report strangely overlooked it. I’m not sure which is worse—the fact that his superiors approved of this lie or the fact that this cop blatantly attempted to use it to defend his unlawful cruelty.”
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