News Roundup

As the Winston-Salem Journal reports, Forsyth County District Attorney Jim O’Neil announced this week that five former detention officers and a nurse have been charged with involuntary manslaughter following the death of John Neville at the Forsyth County Detention Center in December.  The announcement of the charges came the day before an autopsy report was released that said that Neville’s death was caused in part by a restraint technique used by detention officers while Neville was in the midst of a medical emergency.  Five people were arrested for impeding traffic at a protest outside the detention center on Wednesday where they were calling for the release of video footage of the events surrounding Neville’s death.  Keep reading for more on this story and other news. Neville.  On December 2, John Neville was in pretrial detention after being arrested on an assault on a female charge.  According to the Winston-Salem Journal, in the early hours of the morning his cellmate alerted detention center staff that Neville appeared to have fallen out of his bunk and to be experiencing seizures.  As jail staff attended to Neville, he went in and out of consciousness and often was disoriented and uncooperative during the times that he was conscious.  While he was in an observation cell following the immediate response and ordeal surrounding the seizure incident, he was handcuffed and placed in a hog-tie position where he said that he couldn’t breathe.  Officers then tried to remove his handcuffs, but a key broke and two sets [...]