ESPN’s Mark Jones: Cops at Basketball Stadiums Should ‘Take the Day Off’ so My ‘Black Skin’ Won’t Make Them Shoot Me
ESPN broadcaster Mark Jones tweeted that he will tell the police officers assigned to protect him at stadiums to “take the day off,” out of fear that the officer might shoot him due to his “black skin.”
Jones jumped to his Twitter account on Wednesday and claimed to have told an officer to “take the day off” because the officer’s absence was more of a protection for blacks than his presence.
“Saturday at my football game I’ll tell the police officer on duty to “protect” me he can just take the day off. Friday,” Jones wrote. “I’d rather not have the officer shoot me because he feared for his life because of my black skin or other dumb ish.”
“I’m not signing my own death certificate,” he concluded.
Saturday at my football game I’ll tell the police officer on duty to “protect” me he can just take the day off. Fr.
I’d rather not have the officer shoot me because he feared for his life because of my black skin or other dumb ish.
I’m not signing my own death certificate💯
— MarkJonesESPN (@MarkJonesESPN) September 24, 2020
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