Video showing Florida deputy punching Black man goes viral
Jacksonville Sheriff T.K. Waters said the public should not rush to judgment and that officers had asked McNeil several times to come out of his vehicle.
McNeil's lawyers and civil rights group Black Lives Matter said the video showed police brutality.
'This should not have happened,' Black Lives Matter said on X. 'But the police have never treated Black people like human beings.'
Waters told reporters that reviews of the incident were ongoing but the state attorney's office determined that none of the officers violated criminal law.
Waters added that D. Bowers, the officer who broke the car window and punched McNeil, was stripped of his law enforcement authority pending the outcome of the reviews.
McNeil was arrested and charged with resisting arrest, marijuana possession, driving with a suspended licence, not wearing a seat belt and not having headlights in bad weather, court records cited by ABC News showed.
He was sentenced to and served two days in jail, the report added.
In a police report, Bowers said McNeil was reaching towards an area where there was a knife. McNeil's attorneys — lawyers Ben Crump and Harry Daniels — said their client was never combative.
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