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“Miss Ford, just hearing her voice, she was in fear,” Kelly said during a news conference outside the Duval County Courthouse. “She thought she was going to die that day.”
Ford and her 28-year-old fiancé, Anthony Gantt, are facing charges of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer and armed possession of marijuana with the intent to distribute, according to court records.
Kelly and other supporters held Monday s news conference to call for those charges to be dropped and to highlight what they said was a case of racial injustice faced by the two Black defendants.