Joseph Redden - Racist Pussy

So this is the first one. Episode one of Byte This, and I'm gonna tell you up front what this show is so you don't have to guess. I find things in the news, or even in the history of the news, that piss me off and make me feel like shit as an American. Then I bring the receipts to prove to you that you should pay attention too, and that you should not sit there quietly assuming the systems holding up our social fabric are here to protect the weak and the harmed. Because they're not. They are getting more authoritarian, and they are fucking over more people than they're helping.

So here's how every episode goes. We start with the harmed. Then we go to the actors. Then we go to the receipts and my profanity-ridden summary, and yeah, there is going to be a lot of profanity. Buckle up. Let's meet the harmed.

Meet him first: William McNeil Jr.

His name is William McNeil Jr. He's twenty-two years old. Livingstone College. Biology major. Plays in the marching band. No prior arrests. Not on parole for anything. He's a kid who worked his ass off to get into college so he could be a Black person studying in America, which is no small feat. I want you to sit with that before I put a single name to hate on the table. This is the protagonist. My new best friend.

February 2025, Jacksonville, Florida. It's raining. According to the cop, he got stopped for no headlights and no seatbelt. And here's the thing: he did it right. He rolled a recording phone, he asked why he was stopped, and when he got his answer, he asked for a supervisor. That's it. That's the whole crime. He asked a question in the rain.

And for asking, the cop smashed his window, punched him in the face, opened the door, and dragged him out onto the ground. He filmed the whole thing himself, and it went viral over the summer.

The receipts here are all over the place, and that's a good thing. CNN, The Washington Post, and ABC all did full exposés on this moment because of how far it spread. The Washington Post put it plain in July 2025: an officer smashed his window and punched him in the face, video shows. This isn't one shaky outlet whispering. This is the solid ninety percent, out loud, multi-sourced. Meet him first.

Now walk the harm forward

Here's how the criminal justice system handled it when McNeil tried to point out he'd been dealt with unfairly. The answer is: it handled it for the cop.

The State Attorney for the Fourth Judicial Circuit said no charges. Bowers's conduct did not constitute a crime. And get the reasoning, because it's a beauty: prosecutors called McNeil's own footage incomplete in scope. Meaning there weren't enough hours of tape before and after to be sure no context got cut. The kid films his own beating and they tell him the film isn't complete enough. CNN carried the no-charge decision in August 2025.

Then it got worse, because then Internal Affairs got its hands on it. Internal Affairs is the shop that lives and dies on paperwork, on whether the right document got filed. So they reprimanded the cop. Not for the punch. For not documenting the punch. Bowers apparently didn't put the strike in his use-of-force report, so he got dinged on the paperwork and exonerated on the force itself. He followed his training, they said. Read that twice. The punch was fine. The problem was the spelling. Punch whoever you want, just make sure you write down the word punch.

So, exasperated and out of options, my hero McNeil did the only thing left. In September 2025 he filed a federal civil-rights lawsuit, with Ben Crump and Harry Daniels advising. That fight is still alive and well. And again, there are receipts: CNN, the AP, and Court TV all reported the lawsuit as it landed.

That's the harm on paper. A kid beaten, the beating blessed, and the only accountability left is a courtroom he had to drag them into himself.

Now the actor. And it is not the cop.

Get this indelibly clear, because the actor is not the cop. The actor is a white nationalist piece of shit influencer on TikTok, and his name is Joseph Anthony Redden. He calls himself "The Older Millennial." He's been camped in the MAGA lane since 2022, where he apparently figured out that if he looked how he looked and talked how he talked, he could make some money off it. His whole brand is deport the criminals, comply with the cops, white good, brown bad. Gross.

And on a drunken livestream, the brand said the quiet part straight into the microphone. Per Atlanta Black Star's reporting on the tirade, quoting him directly: white people are better because we think more than anyone else. He said Black people are stupid, obviously, in his telling, because they don't think as much. And he said he enjoys Black-on-Black violence, because watching stupid people hurt each other is entertaining to him. That's the horse's mouth. That's not me characterizing him. That's him.

And then he turned to William McNeil Jr., the kid in the rain, and delivered the line this whole thing turns on. He said McNeil should have just complied. That he's the reason he got punched in the face. Not the twenty-two years, not the clean record, not the driving home in the rain. Just: comply. That's the sermon. Do what the man says and you won't get hurt. The superior race knows how to behave.

And then, because the universe occasionally has a sense of humor, there's an answer tape.

The answer tape

In June 2025, in Pinellas County, Redden got arrested after a TikTok Live he'd just recorded. He was taken in on a parole violation tied to a prior DUI, plus resisting arrest. The deport-the-criminals guy, cuffed on his own criminal matter. Know Your Meme's editorial and Distractify both reported the arrest, with Atlanta Black Star in the mix too.

And the bodycam. The bodycam from that arrest shows the tough guy, the compliance preacher, get tased, piss himself standing there unable to manage his own life, and whine to the cop that he was too scared to comply. Too scared. To comply.

Now, honesty tenet, because that's the deal on this show and I'm not going to launder a rumor into a fact by saying it confidently. The arrest is a lock. Nothing about it is in dispute, multi-sourced, solid. The exact bodycam dialogue, the "too scared," the wetting himself, that comes from footage circulating on TikTok and YouTube reposts, not from a clean courthouse release with a case number I can hand you. So I'm calling the arrest solid and the precise footage the shaky ten percent. Believable as hell, it's on video, but flagged as footage, not filing. That's the honest cut, out loud.

The peace

So let's put the two tapes on the table, because that's the whole show.

Tape one: a twenty-two-year-old biology major and band kid asks a cop a question in the rain and gets his window smashed, his face punched, and his body dragged onto the pavement. The system's verdict? No crime. Followed his training. The only ding was that he didn't write the punch down neatly enough. McNeil complied with the law and got beaten anyway, and then got told the beating was fine.

Tape two: Joseph Redden, "The Older Millennial," the superior-race genius who thinks more than anyone else, the man who looked at that beaten kid and said he should've just complied. That guy, on his own bodycam, cuffed on his own parole violation, pissing down his own white leg and telling the officers he was too scared to comply. And the cops handled him with kid gloves. No smashed window. No fist. No alternate judgment from a second agency to sort out what could have gone differently. He just got arrested, courteously, while he wet himself.

The exact grace he said that Black kid didn't deserve, Redden got. In full. And he still couldn't do the one thing he demanded of everybody else.

And here's the cut that turns the disgust into a middle finger. He got to see his own tape. He lived the terror, he knows now, in a puddle of his own making, exactly what compliance-under-fear looks like, that the body freezes even when you know the rules. He had the one experience that could have grown him a conscience. And he kept posting the hate anyway. He spent not a single drop of that empathy on the kid with the darker skin who got the fist instead of the escort.

That's the Byte. Not that he's a hypocrite, because hypocrites are Tuesday. It's that he was handed the whole lesson, wet and undeniable, and chose the con over the conscience, because the con is the thing paying his paycheck. "Just comply" was never advice. It was a product. And the man selling it couldn't use it himself when the taser came out, because he's a little pussy who needs to disappear until he can point his conscience back toward humanity.

William McNeil asked a question in the rain and paid for it. Joseph Redden couldn't stand up straight in cuffs and gets to keep selling superiority to the marks. If you're still deciding whether to buy what The Older Millennial is selling, the tape's right there. He told you who complies and who doesn't. Turns out it was him who couldn't.

That was the first one. Somewhat disjointed, rant-driven, and I had a lot of fun doing it. They'll get crisper. And if you hate me, don't argue, just disconnect, because you're not going to win it, and there'll be fewer and fewer of you over time anyway.

Sources are in the show notes: CNN, The Washington Post, and ABC on the McNeil beating; CNN, the AP, and Court TV on the no-charge decision and the federal lawsuit; Atlanta Black Star for Redden's own words; Know Your Meme and Distractify for the arrest; and the circulating bodycam footage, flagged shaky, footage not filing.

Peace out.