Bishop Rudolph McKissick said the tweets illustrate a problem with how some police interact with the communities they serve.
One of the tweets from an account associated with the JSO sergeant says: “America’s three biggest problems: 1) Marijuana abuse 2) Marijuana abuse 3) Black people.” That tweet was published in 2013.
News4JAX asked JSO Sgt. Douglas Howell on Monday about the tweets and he directed us to JSO’s Public Information Office. A tweet from June of this year, also from the Twitter handle @DPH_78, in response to a story titled “One of the two tweets by a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office sergeant now coming under fire.
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