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.