Episode notes:

This one starts with William McNeil Jr., a twenty-two-year-old biology major at Livingstone College with no record, stopped in the rain in Jacksonville for no headlights and no seatbelt. He filmed his own stop, asked for a supervisor, and got his window smashed, his face punched, and his body dragged out for it. Moss walks through what happened after: no charges against the officer, an internal affairs finding that dinged him only for failing to document the punch, and a federal civil rights lawsuit McNeil eventually filed with Ben Crump and Harry Daniels advising.

The actor in this episode isn't the cop. It's Joseph Anthony Redden, a TikTok influencer who goes by "The Older Millennial," who ranted on a drunk livestream that white people are better because they think more, that Black culture has become about being dumb, and that McNeil "should've just complied" and had only himself to blame for getting punched. Moss lays his words out flat, then pulls up the answer tape: Redden's own arrest in Pinellas County months later, where bodycam footage shows him tased, pissing himself, and telling officers he was too scared to comply, the very thing he demanded of McNeil. The officers handling Redden's arrest, Moss points out, extended him exactly the courtesy and patience he said the Black man in the rain didn't deserve.

The close is Moss's point in full: Redden got to live the fear he preached about and it taught him nothing, he kept selling the same act after being handed the one experience that could have humbled him. Moss is upfront about what's solid and what isn't: the arrest itself is multi-sourced and not in dispute, but the exact bodycam dialogue is circulating footage, not a court filing, so it's flagged as the shakier part of the story.

Receipts:

ANTHONY REDDEN ('The Older Millennial'), his own drunken TikTok livestream: 'White people are better because we think more than anyone else,' plus that Black culture 'has become being dumb.'

ANTHONY REDDEN, his video about William McNeil (the Jacksonville man beaten and dragged from his car): 'He should've just complied. He is the reason he got punched in the face.'

REDDEN'S OWN ARREST, June 2025 police body camera footage surfaced under his rant: he tells officers 'I'm peeing, I'm peeing, I'm sorry.'

CLEARWATER POLICE records cited by Atlanta Black Star: Redden previously charged with violating parole and resisting an officer, with multiple DUIs.

The Washington Post, July 2025: officer smashed his window and punched him in the face, video shows.

CNN, August 2025: no charges filed against the officer.

CNN, the AP, and Court TV, September 2025: coverage of the federal civil rights lawsuit.

Know Your Meme and Distractify: reporting on Redden's June 2025 arrest.

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