He’s still in jail today. A couple quotes from his mom on the facebook page, Fight Against Autism and Police Injustice:
My son is still locked away in isolation despite all of my best efforts. I simply cannot comprehend why no one cares about my child. They are mistreating him in jail and everyone has turned a blind eye. So many people who are supposedly advocates for disabilities and human rights have done nothing. I have turned it… all over to the Lord because there is nothing else I can do.
Please keep Neli’s story alive. He is still locked away. Do not forget and keep letting new people know what has happened to him.
Please visit the website, read his story, and sign the petition. The fact he’s still in jail is beyond horrifying.
More details of Neli’s case here.
“The actions that were taken by the police that day were excessive in the least and grossly mishandled,” she wrote on a website started to counter inaccurate local media reports. “Someone says ‘I see a suspicious black male’ and he ‘could’ have a gun, while all my son was doing was sitting in the grass at the library. And you shut down six schools and go out on a manhunt for this dangerous black man who was sitting in the grass. Anyone can read between the lines and see that this just doesn’t add up.”
