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The mayor of A Florida City in which a viral video was recorded that shows an official who slapped a male driver in the face during a traffic stop, described the incident as disturbing and asked the proper procedure to run its course.
The Mayor of Jacksonville, Donna Deegan, said she understands the frustration of the public and emphasized that she was pursuing a pragmatic approach to it.
“I understand fear,” Deegan told the local news agency News4jax. “I understand the surprise. I get it all. But at the end of the day we wait where everything is going. Hopefully there is a good solution.”
The Mayor of Jacksonville, Donna Deegan, said on the right that she understands the public frustration through a video in which the police and William McNeil Jr. emphasized on the left emphasized that she was pursuing a pragmatic approach to her. (The law firm of Harry M. Daniels/TMX; Corey Perrine/Florida Times-Union/USA Today Network about images)
The video recorded in February started on social media last week and shows William McNeil Jr., who stared into the camera as an officer how he smashes the window of his driver’s side and demands that he will get out.
“Leave the vehicle now!” The officer says.
The officer then hits the face before being pulled out of the car and taken into custody.
The viral The film material began when McNeil spoke to an officer about why he was run over and told him an officer told him that his headlights were eliminated in obvious bad weather. McNeil, his license, registration and insurance evidence refuses to hand over in the bodycam film material published by the Jacksonville Sheriff.
McNeil stays in the vehicle and the window was finally smashed. The officials said they had found a large, unshaked, jagged knife on the driver of the driver of McNeil.
Deegan said that some people have frustrated that she had no longer expressed outrage.
The 22 -year -old William McNeil Jr. was seen on February 19, 2025 during a arrest of the sheriff office of the sheriff of Jacksonville in Florida. (Harry M. Daniels/TMX’s law firm)
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“I am a very pragmatic thinker when it comes to how these things work, and it is not whatever happened there. I just say that there has to be a process of examination, said Deegan. But I can’t really say much more because there is a complaint that can happen.”
Deegan recalled the audience that Jacksonville has a consolidated government, which means that she and the sheriff, Sheriff TK Waters, are chosen independently and have separate tasks.
“It is my job to lead the city. It is his job to guide them Police authority. “
A knife that the Sheriff TK Waters said from Jacksonville was found in McNeil’s vehicle during the traffic stop on February 19, 2025. (Office of the Sheriff of Jacksonville)
She wrote water for the publication of the Bodycam video and tried to be transparent, even though it fell no more than judgments.
“He shows the video. He shows the bodycam videos. Anyway, I think the sheriff came out and tried to be as transparent as possible with the process,” said Deegan. “I think I would just ask people to be a little patient.
Waters said on Monday when he published a Longer Bodycam video On the incident that he had instructed his agency to start both a criminal and administrative review of the civil servants’ actions immediately.
“These administrative checks have not yet been completed, but the public prosecutor has found that none of the officials involved violated criminal law,” said Waters.
The lawyers Ben Crump and Harry Daniels announced that they now represented McNeil after the video “outrage over the country” triggered. They said that the incident gave a racist component because McNeil is a black man and the officers are white.
McNeil seemed to ignore several inquiries from an official in Bodycam film material, which was published by the Jacksonville office, on February 19, 2025. (Office of the Sheriff of Jacksonville)
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“What happened to William McNeil Jr. is a disturbing memory that even the most fundamental rights – such as questions as to why they were run over – can be hit by force for black Americans” said in an explanation. “William was calm and conformed. But instead of answers, he got his window smashed and was hit in the face, about a questionable claim about headlights in broad daylight.”
“This was not a law enforcement authorities, it was brutality. All videos from JSO should be published to ensure that there is transparency for McNeil and the community. We are calling for the full accountability of the Sheriff’s office of Jacksonville and Justiz for William McNeil jr ..”
