✊🏾 May Community Action Meeting ✊🏾
🗓️ Thursday, May 21
📍 @caferesistance
🕡 6:30 p.m.
JSO Crimes continue - Advancing PSC and a Mental Health Response Team - Looking forward to summer programming
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#PSCNow
#CommunityControlNow
#EndPoliceCrimes
Jacksonville, FL – On April 14, dozens of community members gathered on the steps of Jacksonville City Hall to demand the establishment of a permanent professional mental health team to respond to mental health crises, instead of police.
In 2025 the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office was responsible for more than five killings while responding to mental health crises. Concerned community members and mothers of the victims of this police violence led by the Jacksonville Community Action Committee made their voices heard.
Protesters demanded the creation of permanent mental health emergency response team professionals, for officers on mental health calls to radio-confirm deescalation and non-lethal force only, and consequences for cops that use excessive force.
“Mental health episode should not be a death sentence,” said Amelia Moss in her speech representing the Jacksonville Community Action Committee.
After the rally, the group headed into the city council chambers to reiterate their demands in the meeting's public comment section.
SAVE THE DATE! This December 4th - 6th we're gathering forces in Washington, DC to build the movement against police crimes and for community control of the police!
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Jacksonville, FL – On Tuesday, May 12, the Jacksonville Community Action Committee led another mobilization to city council demanding the permanent installment of a mental health emergency response team. This demand is co-signed by a coalition of families who have lost loved ones at the hands of the inept and violent Jacksonville Sheriff's Office (JSO).
Harold Kari, Leah Baker, Justin Knight, Brian Gillis and Rashaud Martin are just a few people who experienced mental health crises then became victims of JSO. In a city where nearly 40% of the yearly budget is allotted to JSO operations, Jacksonville families' only recourse is to call the police in these situations. Protesters demanded that there be another option for Jacksonville residents in need.
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Read more at fightbacknews.org
Statement in support of the family of Walter Scott against the early release of Michael Slager.
NO EARLY RELEASE!
KEEP KILLER COPS IN JAIL!
Sign the petition: TinyURL.com/NoEarlyRelease27
🚨 CALL TO ACTION 🚨
📍City Hall
🗓️ Tuesday, May 12
🗣️ Press Conference and Rally at 4:30 p.m.
✊🏾 Public Comment at City Council at 5 p.m.
The People demand a Mental Health Response Team!
JSO has proven its inability to safely de-escalate mental health crises. JCAC remembers Uncle Bert, Leah Baker, Justin Knight, Rashaud Martin and José Cabrera.
Abusers should not be called when someone needs mental health care ✊🏾
Join us at City Council to demand our tax dollars go to supporting our neighbors, instead of the violent and inept sheriff office.
#PeoplesBudgetNow
#PSCNow
#PoloceAccountabilityNow
#EndTortureAtDuvalCountyJail
NAARPR condemns the Supreme Court Assault on the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais!
The Supreme Court's 6-3 decision in Louisiana v. Callais is a direct assault on the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965, legislation won through the blood, sweat and tears of the Civil Rights movement and the broader Black Liberation movement. The consequences will be felt most by Black communities across the Black Belt south.
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👷🏽💪🏾INTERNATIONAL WORKERS’ DAY 2026✊🏾👩🏾🌾
📅 6PM, Friday, May 1st
📍Duval County Courthouse
From union busting bills to workplace ICE raids, working people are under attack. Join us this International Worker's Day to stand in solidarity with all working people and to say: DEFEND WORKERS! STAND WITH UNIONS! FIGHT FOR WORKERS' AND IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS!
🚨 URGENT CALL TO ACTION 🚨
📍City Hall
🗓️ Tuesday, April 14
🗣️ Press Conference and Rally at 4 p.m.
✊🏾 Public Comment at City Council at 5 p.m.
In the past month, JSO has brutalized three people and the city of Jacksonville recognizes the death of two residents, Charles Faggart and Leah Baker. While JSO receives over 50% of our city's budget their continued abuses go unchecked and encouraged by Sheriff T.K. Waters.
Join us at City Council to demand more of our tax dollars go to supporting our neighbors, instead of the violent and inept sheriff office.
#PeoplesBudgetNow
#PSCNow
#PoloceAccountabilityNow
#EndTortureAtDuvalCountyJail
Jacksonville, FL – Dozens of people gathered on the steps of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office Memorial Building Tuesday, April 7, marking one year since Charles Faggart was killed inside the Duval County Jail.
Faggart's family stood alongside the Jacksonville Community Action Committee (JCAC), demanding answers.
It's been a full year since Faggart, a 31-year-old food truck owner, was arrested on misdemeanor charges. His bond was set at $8500. On April 7, 2025, he was rushed from the jail to UF Health with critical injuries. The next day, Sheriff T.K. Waters held a news briefing about an injured inmate. On April 10, Faggart was declared brain dead.
Twelve months later, his family still doesn't know what actually happened to him.
No charges have been filed against any of the nine corrections officers involved. The FBI investigation Waters requested is still open, with no updates for the public. And JSO (the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office) keeps pointing to that “ongoing investigation” as the reason they won't release anything.
“We came here today because one year ago, my son was taken from us, and we still know nothing,” said Tracey Karpas, Faggart's mother.
Karpas has sued Sheriff Waters and the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office to force them to turn over records, including any video footage of what happened that day. That case is still pending.
...read more on fightbacknews.org
✊🏾 April Community Action Meeting ✊🏾
🗓️ Thursday, April 16
📍 @caferesistance
🕡 6:30 p.m.
JSO Hall of Shame - Advancing PSC - Black Women's History Month - PEP prep
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#PSCNow
#CommunityControlNow
#EndPoliceCrimes
