JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Dozens of people gathered in downtown Jacksonville Thursday night to demand accountability after a 28-year-old man was killed this week while running from Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in St. Johns County.
The Jacksonville Immigrant Rights Alliance identified the man as Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran. He was killed Tuesday morning on State Road 16 after crossing paths with a tractor-trailer during an encounter with ICE agents, according to the group.
JIRA organized the emergency rally, which drew about 80 people at its peak, two days after the incident.
What JIRA is demanding
The group is calling for four specific actions: an end to the 287(g) agreement that allows local deputies to act as immigration enforcement agents, a full independent investigation into Coronilla Duran’s death, accountability for multiple deaths involving ICE encounters across the country in the same week, and an end to the repression of immigrant rights defenders…