A new ongoing video of the February traffic stop showing the authorities in Jacksonville, Florida, after arresting a person, broke the window of his car and hit him on the face, inspired to investigate the use of the force of the authorities.
William McNeel Junior posted a video recorded on social media on Sunday, stating that he was pulled on 19 February. In the video, an official of the Jacksonville Sheriff Office told McNeel that he was pulled as his headlights were closed. 22 -year -old McNell told the officer that other drivers also closed their headlights and asked a supervisor to talk, and when he wrote on Instagram, “things quickly increased, as you can see.”
In the video, an officer is then shown breaking the side window of McNell’s driver, demanding that he gets out of the car and kills him on the face. The officials then opened the door of McNeel’s car and drove it out.
Jacksonville Sheriff Office said on Monday It is investigating the incident that it was made aware of the video that operates online, although the statement stated that “the office of the state counsel has determined that none of the officers involved have violated the criminal law.” The Jacksonville Sheriff Office said it began both a criminal and administrative review of the functions of the officers. Administrative review is going on, Sheriff Office said.
Civil Rights Attorney Ben Serp, who is representing McNell, said in a statement on Monday that the video does not match what the officials said. He called the incident “a disturbing reminder”, asking for basic rights, such as why McNell was drawn, “can be met with violence for black Americans.”
CBS News has reached Florida State Attorney Office for comments.
In the arrest report, McNell’s lawyers were awarded CBS News, Officer D.K. Bovers said McNell did not wear her seatbelt, when she allegedly pulled her for not having her headlights in the season. The official wrote that he asked McNell several times for the evidence of his driver’s license, registration and evidence, which he said that McNell refused, so the Bovers called for backup.
Bovers said in the arrest report, “The suspect continued to refuse to comply with, when I broke the driver’s window and opened the driver’s door. I along with other officials removed the suspect from the vehicle on the scene.” “The suspect was arriving for the floor board of the vehicle where a big knife was sitting.”
According to the arrest report, McNell was accused of Marijuana’s possession and drug paraffarnellia occupation, as well as an officer without violence. Jacksonville Sheriff vaccine Waters said that he convicted and convicted a police officer for protesting and driving on the suspended driver’s license, said Jacksonville Sheriff vaccine.
During a news conference on Monday, the water released the body camera footage from the February incident and said the viral arrest video “does not widely occupy the circumstances around the incident” and “it does not capture the incidents that the officers were before the boofers’ decision to arrest McNell.”
Sheriff’s office also posted an image of a knife seen in one of the bodycam videos of the officers on Monday.
Boverrs Body camera footage The officer asked McNeel why he opened his door instead of rolling his window. In the footage, McNell says that her window does not work, and the Bovers then ask for McNell’s identity once before asking to get out of the car.
McNell, who questioned why he was pulled, responded to “no” and closed his door. He then asks the officer to call his supervisor, and when the Bovers called for other answers, one of whom is heard talking to the vehicle’s side in McNell’s video near McNell near McNell.
Waters said that the Boverrs have been taken away duty amidst internal investigation. He did not comment on the actions of the Bovers, but said “the law is clear.”
“A person should obey an officer’s command, even though the person disagreed for the reasons for the stop of the stop,” the waters said. He said that Sheriff’s office had not received a complaint with McNell and he was unaware of the allegations before posting the video.
Non -noted on Monday that McNell was wearing his seatbelt in his video, but it is not clear from Bover’s body camera footage whether McNell was pulled for the first time. The Attorney also disputed that McNell was once a combative or he was arriving for a knife, saying that the arrest report also failed to mention that the officer killed McNell.
“The story in this report is not only suspicious in this report. It is completely divorced from reality. Not only is he clearly wearing his seatbelt in the video, he never reaches for anything.” “In fact, only at one time he walks on everyone when the officer punches him on his face and knocks on him. Then the young man sits back straight back and holds his empty hands.”
McNell said that her teeth were chosen and as a result of the arrest she needed several stitches in her lips. He also said that he faced a consent and short -term memory loss.
In his video caption, he wrote: “It was very difficult to do that I was mentally healed from this, but I finally had to get the word out and if I pushed you or changed more than the possibility it is why …”
