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.
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Judge: Records in Black inmate’s death will remain sealed
WINSTON-SALEM (AP) Records related to the 2019 death of a Black North Carolina jail inmate who was restrained will remain sealed for at least 60 days, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Forsyth County Superior Court Judge David Hall made the decision following a virtual hearing, the Winston-Salem Journal reported. The documents, which could give insight on John Neville’s death in the Forsyth County jail, were first ordered temporarily sealed in January.
Neville died in December 2019 after having a medical emergency at the jail. Body camera videos from the facility showed Neville struggling with guards to get up from where he lay on the floor, calling out for his mother and yelling “I can’t breathe!” more than 20 times as he was being restrained. Neville had been arrested several days earlier.