Overview

• A Feb. 19 cell phone video shows Deputy D. Bowers shatter William McNeil Jr.’s window and strike him in the face during a Jacksonville traffic stop.
• The sheriff’s office released body camera footage on July 21 and launched an internal administrative inquiry after prosecutors opted not to press criminal charges.
• The Florida State Attorney’s Office concluded that none of the involved officers violated criminal law in the incident.
• Sheriff T.K. Waters confirmed that Bowers’s law enforcement authority has been suspended pending the outcome of the ongoing policy review.
• McNeil has retained civil rights attorneys Ben Crump and Harry Daniels who plan to pursue a civil lawsuit for alleged excessive force.