A video that captured the brutal arrest of a Black college student pulled from his car and beaten by officers in Florida has led to an investigation and calls for motorists to consider protecting themselves by placing a camera inside their vehicles.
The footage shows that William McNeil Jr., 22, was sitting in the driver’s seat, asking to speak to the Jacksonville deputies’ supervisor, when authorities broke his window, punched him in the face, pulled him from the vehicle, punched him again and threw him to the ground.
It is possible for both sides to be wrong in this. It was wrong for the driver to fail to comply. It was wrong for the police officers to assault this man. Not everything is black and white (lol, except this is black and white race thing…)
Completely agree. Yeah, it was definitely wrong for them to hit him in the face. Their whole job is to deal with people who are doing what they’re not supposed to, without losing their shit in turn.
But yes, the initial cop was literally just doing his job, and Shouty McCanISpeakToYourSupervisor escalated it out of literally nowhere from his side, and then got apparently surprised when the cops’ next move wasn’t “Okay, well if he says ‘no,’ I guess we can’t really do anything, free to go have a good day.”