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RollinCalf
Not to change the subject but oonu look at this
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Todays News: Jones Wasnt Just a Headline, Says Family
12/03/2003 11:30 PM EDT
By PHIL W. PETRIE
BlackAmericaWeb.com
News coverage of Nathaniel Jones death, the result of a beating by Cincinnati police that has been declared a homicide, has revealed little about the victims background. Indeed, days after Jones death on Sunday, law enforcement officials appeared more intent on announcing the amount of drugs in the 41-year-old, 350-pound black mans system.
Yet, according to Jones family and friend, he was more than a headline. He was a son who suffered the trauma of a mothers death to be raised by his grandmother, Bessie Jones. He also was a father, who raised two sons, both graduating from Cincinnatis Annunciation Catholic School and Woodward High School.
And he was a jolly, fun-loving person known to all who knew him as Skip and Skipper, because he loved eating Skippy brand peanut butter when he was young, Kenneth Lawson, a lawyer hired by Jones family to conduct an independent investigation of the case, told BlackAmericaWeb.com.
Lawson also said that Jones once worked as a care provider for disabled people in a group home, but doesn't think that Jones was employed at the time of his death.
Jones was a frequent visitor to the White Castle, the site of the beating, and had friends there who knew and cared about him, Lawson said prior to leading a press conference yesterday with Jones family. His friends did not fear him or consider him a threat. They called the paramedics because they were concerned Jones was dying, said Lawson.
The family is "emotionally upset," said Lawson. "The white media wants to demonize any person who dies while in police custody. The police feeds to the media all of the negative things about the person and says things like the officers (involved) have received commendations. This is done so that people draw the conclusion that he deserved what he got.
"He was a big guy and I'm going to dearly miss his big, juicy hugs and the fat, chubby face, his aunt, Diane Peyton, said during the televised press conference in Lawsons office. He has two sons who will dearly miss him. You guys are so wrong in the way you come at this before you knew anything. Skip believed in God."
An uncle, who refused to give his name at the conference, said he couldnt believe the videotape of the incident.
The video showed him being violent and thats the first time in my life, I have ever seen Skip swing at somebody. Hes not violent. They treated him worse than you would treat an animal. If I would have treated my dog like that I would get arrested.
Jones grandmother was perplexed at the sudden change of behavior. I have never seen him upset. Ive never heard him yell, she said at the news conference. I know how he reacted and felt when he lost his mother... it was just not him [on the video]."
The Hamilton County, Ohio coroners office yesterday announced that Jones death was a homicide and that he had an intoxicating amount of drugs in his system.
Could an intoxicating amount of drugs have changed Jones behavior?
The press conference by the family preceded that of the coroners office and they were forecasting the drug question.
If as they allege, he was high or whatever, Lawson asked, why is it that he didn't bother any customer at the White Castle?
Now before oonu jump on mi, I AM NOT SAYING THAT IT IS NOT A TRAGEDY THAT THIS BREDDA DED, ALRIGHT ! But there is something about AA's that I just don't understand. Why is that they are always talking about everything but what is staring us in the face. Now this brederin CHOOSES to get high on crack AND pcp, lunge afta di big redneck babylon dem afta dem tell im lay dung and put im han behine im and the family is now coming to tell us how he broke bread with Jesus and the twelve in the upper room before this incident ???? Is me mad or what ??????
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