{"id":47089,"date":"2025-09-11T22:22:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/black-student-files-federal-lawsuit-after-video-shows-florida-officers-hitting-him-dragging-him-from-car-during-traffic-stop\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T22:22:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:22:58","slug":"black-student-files-federal-lawsuit-after-video-shows-florida-officers-hitting-him-dragging-him-from-car-during-traffic-stop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/black-student-files-federal-lawsuit-after-video-shows-florida-officers-hitting-him-dragging-him-from-car-during-traffic-stop\/","title":{"rendered":"Black student files federal lawsuit after video shows Florida officers hitting him, dragging him from car during traffic stop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Jacksonville law enforcement officers violated the civil rights of a 22-year-old Black college student when they pulled him from his car and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/william-mcneil-jacksonville-florida-police-traffic-stop-video-chicago-attorneys\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">beat him during a traffic stop<\/a><\/span>, according to a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Jacksonville on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>A video showing a Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s officer punching and dragging <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/william-mcneil-jacksonville-florida-police-traffic-stop-video-chicago-attorneys\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">William McNeil<\/a><\/span>\u00a0from his car during a stop in February went viral online this summer and sparked nationwide outrage.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors announced in August they would take no action after determining the conduct of Officer D. Bowers of the Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office did not constitute a crime, according to an investigative report released by the State Attorney&#8217;s Office for the Fourth Judicial Circuit of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>McNeil&#8217;s attorneys <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BenCrumpLaw\/status\/1965768046372433922\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ben Crump and Harry Daniels say<\/a> Jacksonville Sheriff&#8217;s Office&#8217;s policies allow officers to engage in racial profiling and &#8220;illegal or excessive use of force&#8221; without fear of consequences. Crump is a Black civil rights attorney who has gained national prominence representing victims of police brutality and vigilante violence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s an unjustifiable, unnecessary and most importantly unconstitutional use of force,&#8221; Crump said.<\/p>\n<p>The attorneys said the lawsuit is aimed not only at addressing the treatment of their client, but at changing the culture of policing in the area.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters has said there&#8217;s more to the story than the viral cellphone video and that McNeil was repeatedly asked to exit his vehicle. Waters, who is Black, said the footage from inside the car &#8220;does not comprehensively capture the circumstances surrounding the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit names Waters, Bowers, and another officer named D. Miller, as well as the City of Jacksonville and Duval County government. A spokesperson for the sheriff&#8217;s office declined to comment, citing the pending litigation.<\/p>\n<p>According to a prosecutors&#8217; report, Bowers stopped McNeil for failing to turn on his headlights and buckle his seatbelt, after seeing his SUV parked outside a house the officer was surveilling for &#8220;drug activity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/29\/6524e4f6-9026-40f0-a4a1-022d72e9d552\/thumbnail\/620x347\/d8a79f5b2221ced8f8566dcecfd8fb6f\/screenshot-2025-07-29-160731.jpg#\" alt=\"screenshot-2025-07-29-160731.jpg \" height=\"347\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/29\/6524e4f6-9026-40f0-a4a1-022d72e9d552\/thumbnail\/620x347\/d8a79f5b2221ced8f8566dcecfd8fb6f\/screenshot-2025-07-29-160731.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/29\/6524e4f6-9026-40f0-a4a1-022d72e9d552\/thumbnail\/1240x694\/00dd6dae65c08cf5ded5daf9e35b376a\/screenshot-2025-07-29-160731.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">William McNeil Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                CBS<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Questioning the justification for the stop, McNeil requested a supervisor respond to the incident. Based on a review of body camera footage, interviews with officers and statements by McNeil, prosecutors said Bowers gave McNeil a dozen &#8220;lawful commands,&#8221; which he disobeyed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The suspect continued to refuse to comply, at which time I broke the driver&#8217;s window and opened the driver&#8217;s door. I along with other officers on scene removed the suspect from the vehicle,&#8221; Bowers said in the arrest report obtained by CBS News. &#8220;The suspect was reaching for the floor board of the vehicle where a large knife was sitting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crump has claimed officers&#8217; accounts of the incident are unreliable and has fiercely criticized prosecutors&#8217; finding that officers did not commit any criminal wrongdoing, saying his client remained calm while the officers who are trained to de-escalate tense situations were the ones escalating violence. Crump said the case harkened back to the Civil Rights movement, when Black people were often attacked when they tried to assert their rights.<\/p>\n<p>According to his attorneys, McNeil suffered a laceration to the chin and lip, a fractured tooth, and has been diagnosed with an &#8220;ongoing traumatic brain injury.&#8221; McNeil also continues to suffer post-traumatic stress disorder-like symptoms, including nightmares and flashbacks of the incident, his lawyers wrote in a legal filing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the National Bar Association&#8217;s annual convention <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/william-mcneil-jacksonville-florida-police-traffic-stop-video-chicago-attorneys\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">in Chicago in July<\/a><\/span>, McNeil said the incident left him traumatized.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m still afraid of police. I&#8217;m still frightened at night. I don&#8217;t sleep still as much as I used to,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>McNeil&#8217;s attorneys have also formally called on the Department of Justice to conduct its own investigation of the incident and what they described as &#8220;excessive force&#8221; and &#8220;systemic failures&#8221; by Jacksonville officials.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     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