Attorneys for a 22-year-old Black man who was punched in the face by a white officer in Florida during a traffic stop filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday, seeking $100,000 in damages. The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, Jacksonville Division, centers on a Feb. 19 encounter in which William McNeil Jr. was pulled over and hit in the face by Officer D. Bowers after McNeil refused to get out of his car.

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