Good Guy Jones: When UFC Champion Jon Jones stopped 2 vandals during the Black Lives Matter protests
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Jon Jones once stopped 2 vandals all by himself
Jon Jones has had his fair share of controversies in his lifetime. In fact right at the start of the pandemic itself, Jones made the headlines again for being detained by officers, this time due to having fired shots in the air and on charges of drag racing.
While he was serving out his 90-day probation for the same, Jones yet again made the headlines at the peak of the BLM Protests in the wake of George Floyd’s murder and many assumed the worst. However, what he made the headlines for pleasantly surprised many.
Jones who had been ordered to do 48 hours of community service had taken it to heart and was seen preventing vandalism from occurring in the streets of Albuquerque, New Mexico on businesses adjacent to the road. During this period, it had become normal in the States for protesters to spray paint their slogans and wants on the walls of private businesses.
Jones, staunchly against such behavior, took to the streets himself, unarmed, and started tracking down belligerents involved in such acts. In the video, Jones can be seen walking over to some vandals trying to graffiti over the building walls.
Jones simply walked over and started demanding that they hand over the spray cans. Towering over the two young white men, Jones easily got the spray cans off their hands without the need to use force.
Jon Jones drives off an intruder with Gunshots and attack dogs
About the protest itself Jones harbored no ill will but instead wished there were more productive outlets of frustration than vandalizing public property. Jones identified the excessive force, used by the three police officers who held Floyd under their knees for over 8 minutes.
“I wouldnt wish the way George Floyd was murdered on my worst enemy. That officer applied just enough pressure to keep him alive for almost six minutes in that chokehold. In all my years of fighting I can honestly say I’ve never experienced anything close to that level of torture,” said Jones after the footage of Floyd’s death emerged.
While Jones was calm enough in dealing with vandals on someone else’s property, he may not be so kind when one tries to do the same to his private property as one unlucky soul found out. One such Vandal was seen in Jones’s driveway a few months after this incident, Jones fired shots in the air and started chasing the miscreant with his attack dog, all captured on surveillance footage.
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