{"id":82,"date":"2003-12-03T21:30:40","date_gmt":"2003-12-03T21:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=82"},"modified":"2003-12-03T21:30:40","modified_gmt":"2003-12-03T21:30:40","slug":"really-he-was-a-nice-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/?p=82","title":{"rendered":"Really, he was a nice guy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nathaniel Jones died this past week after fighting with police. The 350+ pound man was high on cocaine and PCP when he fought with police. The video<\/a> shows Jones advance on a retreating police officer, swing at him, then grab him. <\/p>\n

Jones’ family is calling for an independent investigation. His grandmother said, “Skipper [Jones] was just a good old, fat jolly fella. He wasn’t violent.” <\/p>\n

Right. <\/p>\n

His aunt Diane Payton said, “Everyone he met, that he touched, loved him. He was never mean.” <\/p>\n

I’m sure the policeman felt that Jones was the nicest guy to every assualt him. Still, I doubt that the policeman he “touched” felt very much love. <\/p>\n

The police are in a catch-22. This man made choices that led to his own death and the police are blamed. Because he died while committing, a crime the police are racist. If the police did not respond, people would claim more racism for not protecting the black community. <\/p>\n

It would be nice to see some integrity from the activists. Stop defending thugs and criminals as the innocent victims. <\/p>\n

The Cincinnati Post<\/a> believes that the public will receive an honest answer on whether or not the officers reacted appropriately according to their editorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The real question is whether or not the activists will accept any other answer than one that condemns the police. I doubt it when people like as Kweisi Mfume already claim the police behavior was “well outside the norm for subduing an unarmed suspect.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nathaniel Jones died this past week after fighting with police. The 350+ pound man was high on cocaine and PCP when he fought with police. The video shows Jones advance on a retreating police officer, swing at him, then grab him. Jones’ family is calling for an independent investigation. His grandmother said, “Skipper [Jones] was … Continue reading “Really, he was a nice guy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semperjase.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}