A Black Florida man detained at gunpoint in 2021 with his 14-year-old son after he was falsely accused of robbing a bank was arrested after trying to show video of the unlawful detainment to Escambia County Commissioners last month.
Albert Jackson Jr., 49, was accused of battering a female county employee who was standing next to him at the podium in front of commissioners while she was trying to determine the content of the video he wanted to show.
But video from the Oct. 16 meeting shows Jackson slightly touching the woman’s arm in contact that appeared incidental.
Jackson says he was only trying to keep her from seizing the USB drive he had inserted into a computer that would have allowed him to show the video to commissioners…