Video captured the events at the Forsyth County jail before John Neville was hospitalized and died.
A coalition of media outlets, including the Winston-Salem Journal, filed a lawsuit Monday for public records in the death of North Carolina inmate John Neville, a Black man who suffocated and died after deputies restrained him in a controversial hold for more than 11 minutes.
But Mondayâs lawsuit was two years in the making because of a death 269 miles across the state from Elizabeth City.
Neville, a 56-year-old Greensboro man died on Dec. 4, 2019, after being held in the Forsyth County Detention Center on his stomach with his hands cuffed behind his back and his ankles lifted to his wrists.
Media Files Lawsuit For Records In John Neville s Death by Paul Garber
5:38pm May 03, 2021 Protesters used chalk to express their feelings as part of a July protest over John Neville s death and the secrecy surrounding the case. PAUL GARBER/WFDD
A coalition of media groups has filed a lawsuit seeking records in connection with the death of a Black man who died after being restrained in the Forsyth County Detention Center.
John Neville, 56, died in December 2019, and the case didn’t become public for months. When it did, it led to protests in the streets and six detention center workers charged with involuntary manslaughter.
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An additional 29 inmates at the Forsyth County Jail have tested positive for COVID-19 since the outbreak started in late November, according to the latest numbers from the N.C. Department
COVID-19 cases at the Forsyth County Jail have surged again, with a total of 185 people, including 157 inmates and 28 staffers, testing positive since the outbreak began, according to the latest numbers released Friday by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services.Â
On Tuesday, the state health department reported a total of 116 people infected during the jail outbreak, 97 inmates and 19 staffers.
The jail outbreak is the second largest in the state, behind the Mecklenburg County Jail which has had 405 cumulative COVID-19 cases. Thirty cases are active. There are 29 residents in custody with COVID-19, one resident has been hospitalized and an additional 293 residents are housed in either respiratory isolation or respiratory quarantine due to potential exposures, according to a spokeswoman for the Mecklenburg jail. There have been no COVID-19 related deaths there, she said.