Frazier plans to attend Tuesday night’s city council meeting at 5 p.m. despite the risk of possibly being arrested again.
— had his court appearance, which was originally scheduled for Monday at 9 a.m., postponed for four weeks.Frazier, 72, is the president of the Northside Coalition of Jacksonville and was charged with misdemeanor trespassing and resisting arrest without violence after he refused to leave the podium during public comment after his allowed time had ended. He was expressing his opinions on Confederate monuments in Jacksonville before his arrest.
Frazier and Phillips called the postponing a “denial of justice” and are hoping for a dismissal. “We can’t keep doing this,” Phillips said. “We can’t keep having somebody who has been arrested and spent a night in jail for political speech because he has been 68 seconds or 2 minutes instead of the allotted 65 seconds. Some countries including this one call that a political prisoner.”“I’m being treated like a political prisoner, not for violation of any codified laws, but because of my political dispute, it’s wrong,” Ben Frazier said. “This should not happen in America today.
Frazier said he plans to continue his advocacy to remove the monuments at tomorrow night’s city council meeting despite the risk of being arrested. “We will in fact be before the city council tomorrow at 5 p.m. and we’re asking all volunteers supporters and members of our coalition and organizations to join us,” Frazier said. “Our plan is to exercise our constitutional rights to express how we feel about Confederate monuments on public property. We think they should be removed.”“Our plan is to utilize our constitutional rights to express how we feel about Confederate monuments on public property,” Frazier said.
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