CHICAGO — Civil rights attorneys Ben Crump, Harry Daniels, and Sue-Ann Robinson will join William McNeil Jr., his family for a news conference on Tuesday to discuss a new angle of a video involving a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office officer.
Note: While Reverend Jesse Jackson was scheduled to appear, he did not seem to have been present.
The video in question shows an officer pointing a gun at McNeil, a Livingstone College student, during a traffic stop on Feb. 19, according to a news release from McNeil’s attorneys.
The officers claimed McNeil did not have his headlights on, which led to the stop.
Read: Black drivers disproportionately ticketed by JSO for having headlights off in bad weather
The attorneys involved, including Ben Crump, are nationally renowned for their work in civil rights cases.
During the Feb. 19 incident, McNeil was pulled over by JSO. He asked to speak with a supervisor to which the officers responded by smashing his window and punching him in the face multiple times.
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