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A man whose arrest sparked outrage online and raised questions about the use of force policy at the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office has pleaded guilty to one charge of resisting police without violence, a misdemeanor.
The mother of Le’Keian Woods is reacting to the recent arrest of a former Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office officer facing several charges after he was accused in a sex crime investigation with an underage teen.
A man whose arrest sparked outrage online and raised questions about the use of force policy at the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office entered a not guilty plea Thursday.
Le’Keian Woods, the man whose arrest video sparked outrage in September, was scheduled to be arraigned Thursday on charges of drug possession, resisting police and tampering with evidence.
Several charges against Le’Keian Woods, whose arrest sparked outrage in September, were downgraded by the State Attorney’s Office, according to court documents.
Several charges against Le’Keian Woods, whose arrest sparked outrage in September, were downgraded by the State Attorney’s Office, according to court documents.
According to a letter sent to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, the DOJ said Woods’ arrest is not a “prosecutable federal criminal civil rights offense.”
The family of Le’Keian Woods held another protest Sunday to demand justice be served for Le’Keian Woods, who was seen in a viral video of a forceful arrest by Jacksonville sheriff officers.
One day after the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office released partial body cam footage of the forceful arrest that was caught on video and went viral online, the agency released another video that offers a different perspective to the arrest video that has prompted accusations of police brutality.
On Monday, Jacksonville’s Sheriff T.K. Waters claimed that a video shared on social media misrepresented the facts surrounding the arrest of a suspect that went viral over the weekend and was altered.
Attorneys for a drug suspect who was repeatedly punched, elbowed and kneed by officers in northeast Florida during a traffic stop say that they are petitioning the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate the case.
Attorneys for the family of a Jacksonville man whose forceful arrest went viral and prompted accusations of police brutality said they sent a letter to the Department of Justice demanding that the agency investigate the arrest and other issues at the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
The Jacksonville Sheriff Office is now investigating the officers involved in viral incident that shows a handcuffed man with swollen eyes and a bloody face sitting on the ground after what appears to be a violent encounter with police.
