It took about 20 minutes before Orlando Police Detective Christopher Moulton discovered there was a body of a Black man underneath his patrol truck following the pursuit of another Black man over a minor infraction.
But seven months after the death of Gerald Neal, investigators have provided few details as to how the 56-year-old homeless man ended up dead beneath Moulton’s unmarked patrol pickup truck.
Instead, police and prosecutors have pinned the blame on Dornell Bargnare, the 30-year-old Black man that Moulton had tried to stop because of an “unreadable license plate,” sparking the pursuit that led to Neal’s death.
However, as details slowly emerge, we are learning that Moulton turned off his body camera immediately after discovering the body beneath his patrol truck, which is a departmental policy violation because the suspect he had been pursuing had not yet been arrested…