Chicago (AP) – A Florida police officer did his gun for the purpose of a Black College student The driver was drawn and beaten by his car In a recorded encounter, which recently expressed widespread resentment, civil rights lawyers said on Tuesday.
According to one of the body cameras of other officers, the officer standing in front of William McNell Junior’s car saw the 22-year-old as another officer at gunpoint, who had just started pulling his windshield from the vehicle. Civil Rights Attorney Ben Serp and other lawyers presented a photo taken from footage during a news conference in Chicago.
He called it one of the several discrepancies from the initial police accounts as he was fired and said that a federal lawsuit was in work.
“Read the police report. Watch the video. Watch and see if they are telling the truth,” said Number. “They don’t add.”
McNell says he was shocked and suffered a brain injury
Video of McNeil – With a camera inside his car – shows that glass sharks flew into McNell’s chin, as he was still sitting in the car. An officer then hit him on his face and then pulled him out and punched him in seconds. The police report said that after knocking on the ground, McNell was punched six times in her right thigh haemstring.
Other members of the legal team of Nerp and McNell say they believe that the office of Jacksonville Sheriff has not made more videos.
McNell said that the examination hurt him. It also left her with a brain injury, and after her teeth broke and pierced her lips, she needed several stitch, her lawyers said. He and his lawyers spoke at the annual conference of the National Bar Association, which was the largest union of the country’s black lawyers and judges.
Next to the news conference, Nerp led McNell and a prayer to his mother.
“That day I was telling the truth,” McNell told reporters. “I was being held at gunpoint and I didn’t feel safe.”
A spokesman for the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office said on Tuesday that “due to pending litigation, we would be unable to speak further on the incident.”
Sheriff has defended the authorities, saying that the video lacks complete reference
After McNell’s video on 19 February, the traffic stop attracted millions of views on the Internet earlier this month, Jacksonville Sheriff vaccine Waters pushed back on some claims made by lawyers.
Sheriff, which is black, said that McNell was repeatedly asked to get out of the vehicle. And, although he had opened his car door opening with an officer earlier, he later closed it and appeared to keep it closed for about three minutes before the authorities forcibly removed it, showing the video.
Waters stated that cellphone camera footage from inside the car “does not capture the circumstances around the incident.”
The camera “can only capture the same one that can be seen and heard,” Sheriff said at a news conference in Florida last week. “So much reference and depth are absent from recorded footage because a camera simply cannot occupy it that is known to the people painted in it.”
His lawyers said that McNell was pulled up and alleged that he did not have his headlights in bad weather, even though it was the day. Additional said that he believes that Sheriff Office uses headlights as an excuse to stop vehicles operated by black people. He said that his team came to know that Jacksonville officials cited 78 motorists for driving without headlights during the last three years, and 63 of them were black.
A point of dispute in the police report is a claim that McNell reached an area of the car, where a knife was found later during the search for the vehicle after his arrest.
Officer D. The Bovers wrote in his report, “The suspected vehicle was arriving for the floor, where a big knife was sitting.”
Additional said that the video shows that McNell “never arrives for anything.” Another official saw in his report that McNell placed his hands up as the Bovers broke the window.
Civil rights lawyers accuse police of banning footage
Last week, Sheriff released a video of the violence from a couple of cameras wearing the bodies of officers. But Sparp on Tuesday accused Sheriff of selectively to release some bodycam videos, only a few officials to “convince the scene” to convince what happened. ,
“We know that there are other videos that we do not have,” he said. “We don’t think it is the only officer who attracted his gun.”
The footage released by Sheriff is from two officers, but those videos shown at least five officers within a few feet of McNell as it is dragged by the car and handcuffs on the ground. Sheriff also released some bodycam footage from a third officer, but the video only shows the officials that he was taken into custody after finding McNell’s car.
In the bodycam video released by Sheriff, it is difficult to see the panches and strikes and when he was on the ground, what happened to McNell, partly because the events occurred so close to the body-phrase equipment. Some police action was also outside the frame of those cameras, so they were not clearly captured in the video released so far.
“Even when she was handcuffed, she repeatedly slammed her head on the concrete,” said Sparp.
Shortly after her arrest, McNell convicted an officer without violence and accused of driving with suspended license, said the waters. The office of the state lawyer determined that the officials did not violate any criminal laws, Sheriff said. An internal lionife is investigated.
MCNEIL is a biology head played in a marching band at Livingstone College, a historically Black Christian College in Salisbury, Livingstone President Anthony Davis, Northern Carolina, Northern Carolina. The arrest took place in February, but until the video of McNell’s car-mounted camera went viral this month, it was not given much attention.
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Martin reported from Atlanta.
Sophia Taaren and Jeff Martin, Associated Press
