The Jacksonville community is rallying on Sunday afternoon to protest against what organizers called a “racial injustice” after accusations of police brutality started to circulate once the arrest of a 24-year-old man with a bloody face being forcefully placed in handcuff went viral.
Jax Takes Action and the University of North Florida Students for a Democratic Society organized the event.
The protest will begin at 2 p.m. at the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office headquarters on 501 East Bay Street. Organizes are calling for all officers involved in the incident to be held accountable, a dissolution of the JSO gang unit and the implementation of a public safety committee, “which will give the community a seat at the table to review public safety policies that impact [the] community,” according to an
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