The attorney for the family of John Neville says his clients havenât received fair treatment since five detention officers and a nurse were charged in Nevilleâs jail-related death.
âMy concern is that the Neville family, in my opinion, has not been treated well by those folks who represent the sheriff and the county,â said Michael Grace of Winston-Salem, the attorney for Nevilleâs estate. âThey deserve a little better based on how they comported themselves throughout this whole thing.â
His law firm is Grace, Tisdale & Clifton P.A. of Winston-Salem.
John Elliott Neville, 56, died on Dec. 4, 2019, at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.
Forsyth County prosecutors are seeking to prevent the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services from releasing records on the jail-related death of John Elliott Neville in December 2019.Â
A day after DHHS officials indicated they would be releasing certain documents in its possession to a news organization, a Forsyth County prosecutor filed an objection and a request for a temporary protective order, which a Forsyth County judge granted the same day, according to court documents filed in Forsyth Superior Court.Â
Attorneys for a media coalition that includes the Winston-Salem Journal were not notified. (The Winston-Salem Journal was part of a coalition that requested public release of videos showing the events that led to Neville s death.)
Sitting here on the eve of the eve of New Yearâs Eve, reminiscing on the collective shit show this year has been for everyone in the country, state, and Triad is definitely a bummer. But things certainly could have been a lot worse for both Ian and me. That is the thing about our white, cisgender privilege, just the acknowledgment of this truth is something that a lot of those who are Black, Indigenous, People of Color, differently-abled, and of a different gender identity donât have the luxury of doing.
With the senseless murders of Black people by police this year, especially that of Breonna Taylor, many white folks like Ian and myself have (finally) started to wake up and realize that Black women in this country have been consistently dealt a bad hand and deserve better. As Megan Thee Stallion artfully put it in her recent