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Residents press council for permanent mental-health response teams and demand accountability after officer-involved shootings
Summary
Dozens of public commenters urged Jacksonville City Council to fund permanent mental-health emergency response teams, criticized Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office responses to crises and asked prosecutors to drop charges stemming from last year’s arrests. Speakers cited multiple officer-involved shootings connected to mental-health calls and demanded timely video release and policy changes.
Dozens of residents used the council’s public-comment period to demand new city policy on mental-health emergencies and to call for accountability in officer-involved shootings.
Wells Todd, speaking for fellow residents, said the city should remove responsibility for mental-health crisis response from JSO and instead adopt professional response teams: “It is time to create a permanent mental health emergency response team. Too many of our citizens, when they call 911 and the police respond, there is fear in their hearts of what the police will do… People have died.”
Several speakers cited what they said were seven JSO shootings tied…
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