Walter a mcneil biography
Walter A. McNeil was elected Sheriff of Leon County in November In his distinguished year career as a public servant, Sheriff McNeil has led the fight.
In he was elected as Sheriff of Leon County..
Leon County sheriff uses his lived experience to work toward a 'more perfect justice system'
It was when a year-old Walt McNeil decided he wanted to be a police officer.
He was riding the bus to school at the beginning of the year with his Black friends when police pulled over the vehicle and stormed on board, striking some students with billy clubs and tear gas. Chicago was undergoing integration and the bus was transporting students to the white side of town.
Roughly a month after the incident, McNeil ran into a Black officer walking the streets and saw it as an opportunity to find out why he and his peers were treated the way they were.
“Why did the police come on our bus and do that?”
The police officer responded: “Boy, that’s just the way it is now. Maybe one day, you can do something about this.”
As McNeil told this story to a group of Fairview Middle School students more than 50 years later, he explained that from that moment he would do everything he could to become
