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ESPN's Mark Jones says he'll refuse police protection Saturday for his own safety
ESPN play-by-play announcer Mark Jones will refuse the standard police protection for his Saturday college football game, he said on Twitter.
The tweet came in the early hours of Thursday after the officers who shot Breonna Taylor were not charged in her death. Jones is working the game between Army and No. 16 Cincinnati at Nippert Stadium in Ohio.
Jones, who is Black, said in the tweet that he’ll tell the police officer he “can just take the day off.” He said it was for his own protection from police that he didn’t want the security detail.
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Jones wrote:
“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.”
https://sports.yahoo.com/espn-mark-jones-refuse-police-escort-games-breonna-taylor-ruling-signing-death-certificate-143315009.html