William McNeil Jr.’s unnecessarily violent arrest by the hands of Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace (JSO) deputies remains to be circulating on social media by way of viral video, and BOSSIP nonetheless has its eyes fastened on all of the machinations of the case.
Ubiquitous civil rights lawyer Ben Crump held a public press convention this week to disclose extra particulars concerning the egregious police misconduct that passed off on February 19, 2025, particularly, by deputy Donald Bowers. In accordance with AP Information, Crump offered a nonetheless picture from the scene taken from the physique digital camera video of one of many deputies. The nonetheless clearly reveals a deputy aiming his service pistol at McNeil although the 22-year-old was unarmed and offered no risk in anyway. Crump, lawyer Harry Daniels, and his workforce of legal professionals cited this as one instance of a number of discrepancies within the official police report.
“Learn the police report. Watch the video. And see if they’re telling the reality,” Crump stated. “They don’t add up.”
Crump says that the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace remains to be withholding extra physique digital camera footage that will additional illuminate the extent of misconduct exhibited that day. JSO was requested about this and different tenets of the case, however a spokesperson shut it down, saying, “on account of pending litigation, we might be unable to talk additional on the incident.”
McNeil, who stood subsequent to his mom on the press convention, maintains his innocence. He informed reporters, “That day I used to be telling the reality. I used to be being held at gunpoint, and I didn’t really feel protected.”
Daniels and firm say they’re making ready to file a federal civil rights lawsuit towards all events concerned, they usually additionally plan to problem McNeil’s conviction on the legal costs that stemmed from the incident.
Through First Coast Information:
“[We’re] pursuing justice to safe his freedom, as a result of no method he ought to have been charged with a criminal offense, as a result of let me be very clear – the cease was unconstitutional from the start,” Daniels stated. “It wasn’t simply pretexual, it was racial profiling and illegal and he suffered a beating that no one ought to endure.”
BOSSIP will proceed masking this story and can present updates as extra data turns into out there.
