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The North Carolina House and Senate each passed bills that would require centralized reporting of Giglio letters, creating a database that law enforcement agencies could consult when hiring new officers. The letters say which law enforcement officers are deemed too untrustworthy to testify in court.
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.