A north Florida grandmother wants answers after she says her local police force barged into her home, knocked her on the floor, and handcuffed her, believing she was someone else.
Before the incident, which was captured on cellphone video, Khristi Jackson told the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office deputies she was not the woman they were looking for. They disregarded her averments and forcefully restrained her, causing chaos in the woman’s Jacksonville apartment on Thursday, April 27.
Deputies were part of the JSO’s K-9 unit, and experts say a police dog may have been close by the home, waiting to join the would-be arrest.
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Now questions are emerging about whether the deputies violated the woman’s Fourth Amendment civil rights, which should have protected her from unlawful search and seizure.
Footage captures a woman, believed to be Khristi Jackson’s daughter, frantically asking, “What’s going on? What’s going on? What’s going on? What’s going on? Can somebody please tell me, please? Oh my gosh.” Family members asked this 13 times on camera during the incident.
One of the deputies on site admitted that he did not know what was happening either.
Initially, multiple deputies knocked on her door and said they were looking for a Ms. Cooper. Cooper is alleged to have short red hair. Jackson, who is Black and has reddish-orange color hair, told them she was not the person they were looking for.
″I got ready to close the door, and it was stopped by the officer’s foot, and all the other officers bum-rushed right through here,” Jackson recalled in an interview with News4JAX.
During the melee, where the woman’s 4-year-old grandson and two daughters were present, multiple officers pushed Jackson to the ground and held her…
