JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The mother of a 23-year-old man beaten by Jacksonville officers says the incident reflects a longstanding pattern of excessive force in the department.<\/p>\n
According to Action News Jax<\/a>, Bianca Gordon, mother of Dasaun Williams, is speaking out after footage showed officers with the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> repeatedly striking and tasing her son during an incident in November.<\/p>\n \u201cI keep my mouth closed for y\u2019all to keep beating people. When you took that job, you took an oath to do your job to the best of your abilities,\u201d Gordon said during a Friday press conference. \u201cHe could have died at that scene, and neither officer gave a care. They did not care what they were doing to my son. It could have been anybody\u2019s son, not just mine.\u201d<\/p>\n See also: Fort Pierce man shot and killed in early morning homicide<\/a><\/p>\n Williams\u2019 arrest was reportedly part of a long-term drug investigation by JSO. Civil rights attorneys recently obtained bodycam footage of the incident, which they say highlights a troubling pattern and has led them to call JSO the most violent law enforcement agency in the country.<\/p>\n Attorneys Benjamin Crump and Harry Daniels are representing Gordon and her son, saying the incident reflects a broader pattern of excessive force by the department. <\/p>\n They point to other high-profile cases, including the 2024 arrest of Travis Lamar Brinkley<\/a> and the arrest of William McNeil<\/a>, unarmed black men, whose encounters with JSO officers also involved repeated blows and aggressive tactics.<\/p>\n \u201cYou see the exact same pattern and practice of brutality at the hands of the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office officers,\u201d Crump said. <\/p>\n Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n When Action News Jax contacted the department, JSO declined to comment on the allegations, citing pending legal action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 The mother of a 23-year-old man beaten by Jacksonville officers says the incident reflects…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-218911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218911","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=218911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}