Standing with civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Harry Daniels, William McNeil Jr. spoke publicly for the first time since his February 19 arrest.

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,

William McNeil Jr., 22, says he was standing up for himself in February when sheriff’s police pulled him over.

A Black college student is still recovering after being punched and dragged from his car by Florida law officers during a traffic stop in February.

Anthony Davis, the Livingstone College president, made a statement supporting William McNeil Jr., a biology major at the Salisbury school.

The state attorney's office says it did review McNeil's cell phone video of the traffic stop before deciding to clear the officers of criminal wrongdoing. McNeil's legal team alleges, though, that he was never interviewed by the agency before the decision was finalized.

Newly released bodycam footage adds detail to William McNeil Jr.'s arrest, now central to a civil rights lawsuit alleging excessive force and racial bias.