{"id":233481,"date":"2026-04-15T23:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233481\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T23:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:50:08","slug":"jury-finds-leah-grady-guilty-of-resisting-officers-at-jacksonville-city-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/233481\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury finds Leah Grady guilty of resisting officers at Jacksonville City Council meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leah Grady, 24, was found guilty of resisting an officer during a Jacksonville City Council meeting, with police citing disruption, according to court proceedings<\/p>\n

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 A jury has found 24-year-old Leah Grady<\/a> guilty on two counts following her arrest during a Jacksonville City Council meeting last year.<\/p>\n

Grady was convicted of resisting an officer without violence, a first-degree misdemeanor, as well as resisting a police officer under a municipal ordinance, according to court proceedings Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The charges stem from an incident on May 27, 2025, during a Jacksonville City Council meeting, where police say a group of people was disrupting proceedings.<\/p>\n

According to testimony, council leadership requested officers remove individuals they say were interrupting the meeting. Officials said some people complied and left, while others \u2014 including Grady \u2014 refused.<\/p>\n

During the trial, a Jacksonville Sheriff\u2019s Office officer who serves as sergeant-at-arms for City Council testified he assisted in making the arrest, with help from another officer.<\/p>\n

Jurors also heard from a city council staff secretary, who explained the rules for public comment and the process for handling disruptions, including who has the authority to order someone removed.<\/p>\n

Grady did not testify in her defense.<\/p>\n

It is not immediately clear when she will be sentenced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leah Grady, 24, was found guilty of resisting an officer during a Jacksonville City Council meeting, with police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-233481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233481","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=233481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}