
Viral Traffic Stop
Cops Punch Black Man, Smash Window
… Busted Lip In Mug Shot
Published
Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office by way of Storyful
A driver who mouthed off to regulation enforcement throughout a site visitors cease in Florida acquired punched within the mouth after police smashed his window and pulled him out of his automotive … and it is all on video.
Jacksonville Sheriff T.Ok. Waters simply launched physique digital camera footage from William McNeil‘s violent February arrest … and also you see him arguing with deputies about why he acquired pulled over.

McNeil questions deputies who advised him he was being pulled over for not utilizing his headlights within the rain … and he locks himself within the automotive and calls for a supervisor … then continues his protection when extra deputies present up … till police smash his window with naked fists and drag him out of the driving force’s seat.
Police weren’t the one ones recording the interplay … McNeil propped his cellphone up in his automotive and began grabbing video … and his POV exhibits him taking a pair punches to the face.
McNeil was arrested and his mug shot exhibits him with a busted lip.
The arrest report says he was charged with possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and resisting an officer with out violence. Sheriff Waters says McNeil pleaded responsible to and was adjudicated responsible of resisting a police officer with out violence and driving on a suspended driver’s license.
The Sheriff says prosecutors decided not one of the officers concerned within the site visitors cease violated criminal regulation … although the incident is beneath administrative assessment to find out if any JSO insurance policies have been violated.
Officer Bowers was recognized because the deputy who smashed the window and punched McNeil and and Sheriff Waters says Bowers has been stripped of his regulation enforcement authority.
One of McNeil’s attorneys, Harry Daniels, tells TMZ … “He simply asks for a supervisor and then they break his window and beat him yet, somehow, the report failed to mention that. I don’t know which is worse, that this officer clearly tried to justify his illegal brutality with this fabrication or that his supervisors signed off on it.”