{"id":222786,"date":"2026-04-08T01:20:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222786\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T01:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T01:20:15","slug":"jacksonville-community-holds-rally-one-year-after-incident-leading-to-inmates-death-104-5-wokv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/222786\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacksonville community holds rally one year after incident leading to inmate\u2019s death \u2013 104.5 WOKV"},"content":{"rendered":"

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Community Action Committee, alongside family and friends are holding a rally and vigil at the Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office headquarters to honor the life of 31-year-old Charles Faggart and to call for answers surrounding his death.<\/p>\n

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Charles Faggart Rally Flyer (Jacksonville Community Action Committee)<\/p>\n

Today marks one year since the incident involving nine corrections officers that led to Faggart\u2019s death, an event that still leaves many questions unanswered.<\/p>\n

Jalicia Lewis with JCAC says the community continues to seek clarity and accountability.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile you know he was arrested, rights don\u2019t just disappear because you go to jail. Jail is not a death sentence, he deserved justice, his fair share and it was taken from him.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to a report from the Jacksonville\u2019s Sheriff\u2019s Office, Faggart had been arrested following a domestic violence incident. On April 7, 2025, while being moved to another cell, he reportedly became aggressive, prompting officers to restrain him.<\/p>\n

Sources say pepper spray may have been used during the encounter. Faggart was then placed in a restraint chair and remained there for nearly two hours before being moved to a cell. Officers reported that he experienced a seizure during the incident, though many details afterward are heavily redacted in the report.<\/p>\n

Faggart was later transported to a local hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n

Lewis says the purpose of the rally and vigil is both to demand justice and to remember Faggart\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hole that one person leaves when they are taken from this planet is big, and I think it\u2019s still not filled, so we want to make sure that Charles, wherever he is, he knows that he\u2019s not alone and that we are thinking about him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The Jacksonville Community Action Committee, alongside family and friends are holding a rally and vigil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[796,14296,794,28,116,118,117,1872,100872,795,349],"class_list":{"0":"post-222786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-796","9":"tag-charles-faggart","10":"tag-duval","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-jacksonville","13":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","14":"tag-jacksonville-news","15":"tag-jso","16":"tag-jso-headquarters","17":"tag-ne-florida","18":"tag-northeast-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222786","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=222786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}