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,

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

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

Livingstone College student William McNeil Jr. was injured in a Jacksonville traffic stop. His legal team demands the officer’s firing and full investigation.

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.

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.

William McNeil Jr. was pulled over by police in Jacksonville, Florida, and dragged from his vehicle when he refused to obey instructions. Now-viral video shows a white officer break the driver’s side window and strike the Black driver in the face.