William McNeil Jr. grew to become the speak of the web final 12 months when a viral video captured by his cellular phone confirmed him being attacked by a Jacksonville, Florida police officer throughout a visitors cease. The overly aggressive cop, now recognized as Officer D.J. Bowers, broke McNeil’s automobile window and punched him within the face even though he wasn’t beneath no risk in any way. BOSSIP lined the story and the next outrage and at this time, we’ve got an replace on what, if any, disciplinary motion D.J. Bowers confronted.
According to News4JAX, Officer Bowers was cleared of accusations of illegal use of pressure following an inner investigation by the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office (no shock there, the decision was coming from inside the home). However, Bowers was given a “written reprimand stage 1” for not together with the truth that he use bodily pressure, “a strike to the face, towards McNeil within the type of the punch in his official police report. That stage 1 quotation is basically a slap on the wrist that holds no true punitive worth. Bowers has been restore to common police obligation after being reassigned to working the telephones within the JSO Tele-Serv Unit for the reason that July incident. No suspension, no lack of pay, no legal fees might be sought.
Ubiquitous civil rights lawyer Ben Crump and his authorized companion Harry Daniels have filed a federal lawsuit towards Bowers and the opposite officers on the scene along with Jacksonville Sheriff T.Okay. Waters and town of Jacksonville itself. McNeil suffered quite a few accidents after he was punched within the face, officers slammed him on the concrete fracturing his tooth, lacerating his lip, and reportedly suffered a medical mind harm from the blunt pressure trauma.
The Internal Affairs (IA) investigation, Bowers tried to excuse the absence of the punch as a “distraction strike” that he didn’t really feel measured as much as an *precise* use of pressure. IA merely cited the obtrusive omission as a “coverage/work-standards violation.”
We hope McNeil will get each purple cent out of this janky a** sheriff’s officer.
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