NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Dozens of people gathered in front of the Beaches library branch in Neptune beach standing united against ICE.<\/p>\n
The protest was hosted by the Neptune Beach Coalition, Beaches Activists Movement & grassroots movement 50501 Northeast Florida. <\/p>\n
These groups have been holding protests here once a week since last April.<\/p>\n
Each protest has a different focus, but organizers tell me that these past few have been focused on the recent ICE activity across the country. <\/p>\n
Specifically, protesters we spoke with were outraged about the death of Renee Nicole Good, a mother who was shot and killed during an ICE operation in Minneapolis.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey don\u2019t do anything legally, they don\u2019t care about legality, they\u2019re just people in costumes that like having power,\u201d protester Lillian Spofford said.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The protest wrapped up before the news of another deadly shooting involving a federal agent in Minneapolis came out.<\/p>\n Action News Jax asked the Founder of the Neptune Beach Coalition what her thoughts were about the recent uptick in ICE\u2019s presence in Jacksonville. <\/p>\n \u201cAs long as it\u2019s peaceful and they aren\u2019t messing with people\u2019s rights, I don\u2019t have a problem with it,\u201d Carole Danek, Founder of the Neptune Beach Coalition, said. \u201cThey\u2019ve been here for years and years.\u201d<\/p>\n Action News Jax also spoke with a Jacksonville resident who wasn\u2019t at the protest. She didn\u2019t want to go on camera, but she says she does not support what the protesters are protesting about. <\/p>\n \u201cI think that ICE is doing their job and I agree with what they\u2019re doing,\u201d she said. \u201cWe need to get some kind of balance back. We need to get rid of some of the criminals that are here that shouldn\u2019t be here.\u201d<\/p>\n Neptune Beach coalition, Beaches Activists, and 5050NEFL will hold another protest on Saturday, January 31, in front of the Beaches library branch at 10 am. <\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEPTUNE BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Dozens of people gathered in front of the Beaches library branch in Neptune beach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,347,28,348,116,351,118,117,349,350,346,345],"class_list":["post-130731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-cbs47","tag-florida","tag-fox30","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-fl","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-northeast-florida","tag-southeast-georgia","tag-wfox","tag-wjax"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}