The mayor of a Florida city where cops were caught on camera smashing a driver's window because he did not have his headlights on has weighed in on the controversy.
Jacksonville Mayor Donna Deegan said she understands the public's frustration with the events surrounding William McNeil Jr.'s arrest on February 19 - but urged civility as an investigation into the incident continues.
In the dashboard footage, Jacksonville Sheriff's Office officers were seen breaking McNeil's window, punching him in the face, pulling him out of his car, then striking him again as they threw him to the ground to arrest him.
'I understand the angst. I understand the upset, I get all of that,' she said. 'But at the end of the day, let's wait and see where it all goes. Hopefully there's a good resolution,' Deegan told News4Jax.
'I am a very pragmatic thinker when it comes to how these things go, and it's not to diminish whatever happened there, I'm simply saying there has to be an investigative process,' the mayor continued, adding that she has 'faith that that process will be carried out.'
