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✊🏾 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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#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.

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All eyes on Michael Foster! Self-defense doesn’t end with a badge, Free Foster he’s a dad!

Jacksonville, FL- A broad coalition, led by Jacksonville Palestine Solidarity Network (JPSN), rallied outside Duval County Jail on May 20 to condemn the guilty verdict against local organizer Conor Cauley, who now faces up to five years in prison.

A crowd of over 50 people mobilized within an hour of the verdict. Cauley, who was originally facing ten years with two felony charges, had one felony for resisting violence dropped after a year-long grassroots campaign against the district attorney Melissa Nelson. He is now in jail awaiting sentencing.

Hundreds of people from Jacksonville and across the country called and emailed State Attorney Melissa Nelson, calling on her to drop these trumped-up charges. But, as highlighted in a statement by JPSN, “Melissa Nelson proved to the people that her allegiance is not to them, it's to a corrupt Jacksonville Sheriff's Office and city council that have publicly called for the state to make an example out of us in hopes that they can stop our movement.”

The rally called out the backward political slant of the trial, and the unjust rulings by the judge. Among them were the judge's refusal to allow the political nature of the arrest to be discussed in trial, banning the keffiyeh from the courtroom, not allowing Cauley's lawyer to question arresting Officer Aliaga's history of harassment complaints, and not allowing political repression to be described to the jury.

The judge elected to revoke Cauley's bond upon the guilty verdict, remanding him to police custody. This comes after public pressure on the judge by Sheriff T.K. Waters and multiple Trump-aligned city council members to make an example of Cauley.

...Read more on fightbacknews.org

Voting Rights were paid for in blood by our ancestors, and we will not allow them to be rolled back. This Juneteenth is a special opportunity to help beat back right-wing attempts to take us back to Jim Crow era disenfranchisement and police terror. Join us in the streets, in any of the 30+ cities where we have a chapter or affiliate!

Happy Emancipation Day! Jax Community Action Committee

🚨CALL TODAY! 🚨

JUSTICE FOR WALTER SCOTT!

Killer cop Michael Slager, convicted for the 2015 murder of Walter Scott, is set to be released early by the federal Bureau of Prisons, despite being sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty to civil rights violations and admitting to second-degree murder.

Early release for Slager would be a slap in the face to the family that fought to have him charged. He must serve all 20 years of his sentence in prison, not a halfway house.

We are calling on all our forces across the country to call the Englewood Federal Correctional Institution in Littleton, Colorado to demand NO EARLY RELEASE FOR MICHAEL SLAGER.

Swipe for a script to make calls and please comment below and let us know the response you get.

And don't forget to add your name to our petition at tinyurl.com/NoEarlyRelease27

Justice for Walter Scott!

🚨CALL TODAY! 🚨

JUSTICE FOR WALTER SCOTT!

Killer cop Michael Slager, convicted for the 2015 murder of Walter Scott, is set to be released early by the federal Bureau of Prisons, despite being sentenced to 20 years after pleading guilty to civil rights violations and admitting to second-degree murder.

Early release for Slager would be a slap in the face to the family that fought to have him charged. He must serve all 20 years of his sentence in prison, not a halfway house.

We are calling on all our forces across the country to call the Englewood Federal Correctional Institution in Littleton, Colorado to demand NO EARLY RELEASE FOR MICHAEL SLAGER.

Swipe for a script to make calls and please comment below and let us know the response you get.

And don't forget to add your name to our petition at tinyurl.com/NoEarlyRelease27

Justice for Walter Scott!

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

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

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

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

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

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