A cell phone video showing a White police officer in Jacksonville, Florida, striking a Black man in the face during a February traffic stop before officers dragged the driver from his car has sparked outrage online as conflicting accounts of the incident have emerged.

The footage shows that William McNeil Jr., 22, was sitting in the driver's seat, asking to speak to the Jacksonville deputies' supervisor, when authorities broke his window, punched him in the face, pulled him from the vehicle,

Video of a Black man being punched and dragged out of his car during a traffic stop in February has now led to an investigation into the officers’ use of force.

A Florida man at the center of a viral traffic stop is speaking publicly for the first time since the February incident, which has drawn national attention and renewed calls for police accountability.

William McNeil, Jr., the 22-year-old Florida man whose violent arrest by Jacksonville sheriff’s deputies was caught in a viral video, is expected to speak out about the incident during a press conference outside the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday morning.