After two Jacksonville women were charged with violating Florida’s recently enacted Halo Law in connection with a violent arrest outside a school last week, two high-profile civil rights attorneys are demanding changes.

Anita Gibson and Jasmine Jefferson became the first two people in Jacksonville to be charged with a second-degree misdemeanor under the law, which requires a 25-foot buffer zone for all first responders, including law enforcement, while they are performing their jobs.

According to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, Gibson and Jefferson violated the law during an incident outside a Jacksonville charter school that ended in the violent arrest of 39-year-old Erika McGriff.

Police say the two women were too close to Officer Randy Holton and were harassing him as he tried to

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