Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams
Broward County Sheriff Gregory Tony
The lawsuit identifies several sections the plaintiffs believe violate the Constitution. The complaints against these sections are, according to the lawsuit,:
Section 15, which sets participating in a riot at a third-degree felony and eliminates bail for people arrested
Section 4, which prohibits protesters from blocking streets
Section 16, which requires a person arrested for break of peace to spend a night in jail
Section 8, which creates mob intimidation as a misdemeanor offense
Section 14, which creates the crime of cyberintimidation
Section 18, which shields civil liability from people who injure or harm protesters
Section 1, which makes it harder for local governments to defund law enforcement
Community organizations renew demands for Mayor Curry to remove Confederate monuments We are asking the Mayor to stop beating around the bush and to act with all deliberate speed to remove the monuments once and for all, said Ben Frazier. Author: First Coast News Staff Published: 10:29 AM EDT May 4, 2021 Updated: 11:28 AM EDT May 4, 2021
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. A group of community organizations renewed its demands that Mayor Curry follow through on his commitment to remove Confederate monuments.
During a news conference on Tuesday, the groups also said they are concerned that an unofficial committee convened by the Mayor last year has violated government in the sunshine policies.
Group asks why Jacksonville never followed through on removing Confederate statues
When statues across from City Hall came down, Mayor Curry promised they’d all be removed
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Group asks why Jacksonville never followed through on removing Confederate statues
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – “Take ‘Em Down Jacksonville” rallied on the steps of City Hall on Tuesday morning, telling Mayor Lenny Curry to keep his promise to remove all the Confederate statues in Jacksonville.
Last June, Curry ordered the statue in what was then known as Hemming Park now James Weldon Johnson Park to be removed. At that time, responding to the mood of the city, state and country in the wake of George Floyd’s murder by a Minneapolis police officer the previous month, Curry announced that all Confederate monuments in the city would be removed.
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