RC: THANK YOU! Plain and simple.

How Mr. Jones died is unfortunate. But bottom line he was on drugs! We have seen it over and over. Hugh Crosskill (sp) a known Jamaican personality was shot and killed by a security personnel earlier this year or last year was it?? Sure the Security guard reacted over zealously but this is a man who chose cold ground to be his bed and his family accepted it though sadly. My owna, owna one big brother is a drug addict (crack head) I live on edge waiting a call. What can I do? He has chosen that life style. He had a choice. Mental illness is another issue. However, mixing drugs with mental illness is a sure recipe for early death.

Please understand it is not that those of us who will not join a march against the police not knowing how racist and stereotypical 90% of them are, but I think we should choose which battles we fight in wisely. (Remember Rodney King?) If there is a lobby that more trained police personnel is placed on the streets that are able to deal with the mentally ill person or even a drug induced person I will sign up. But just because we know they (police, world wide) have a history of shooting first (the blackman) then making excuse. Is no reason to say that these police men should be hung. I saw the video. If Mr. Jones had lunged at me I would have reacted same way given the circumstances. I wonder if you people here realize that the police are just as hated by some of their white people to. I am sure thought it may have not made headlines in any newspaper that they have in discriminately shot and killed white men too under questionable circumstances. Are we saying if Mr. Jones was white, weighting in at 250-300 lbs. Under drugs and launch at the police they would have found a different way or restraining him? Sorry, mi will by other stories but I wont be buying that one.

I think deep down the family knew what they and the police were up against and some times family just get tired of supporting a relative who have and keeps sliding. May Nathaniel Jones' soul find the peace he might have been seeking.