“I live my life as a black man that reflects honor, integrity, faith and character,” he wrote.Īnother tweet might explain why he rushed ahead of his colleagues in the Burlington store. That year, Jones’ effort generated toys for 125 kids, the site said. Its mission was to help children from low-income areas. Its logo: a police cap with a red heart in the middle. In 2020, Jones created a nonprofit called Officers for Change. What makes it harder is that he was trying to build a relationship with the youth of his community and wanted to be a force for change, she said. He is trying to figure out a process to keep moving forward when he knows her family can’t,” Wilcox said. “This is something he says that he will be living with every day for the rest of his life. Jones’ attorney said he and his colleagues acted by the book to resolve what he believed was an active shooter situation, before someone else could get hurt. In another, Jones wrote, “Be better than you were yesterday” - words now haunting in the aftermath of the shooting.
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I have the power and determination to affect CHANGE in the community,” he wrote in one tweet. The tweets weaved a tale of a veteran cop with a penchant for motivational phrases, an African American who belonged to both the Thin Blue Line and Black Lives Matter.
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The story said Jones grew up poor in the west end of Louisville, with his mother working multiple jobs to keep the family housed and fed. The 2020 article in the University of Louisville paper, the U of L, said Jones was a native of Kentucky who left in 2006 to become a police officer, but later returned to the school to graduate with a degree in communications. A story in his college newspaper as well as his Twitter account were erased from the internet, but retrieved by Southern California News Group with the Wayback Machine.
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The suspect, Daniel Elena Lopez, 24, also was killed by Jones, who fired three times.Īs the investigation continues, attention turned Thursday toward Jones and his 11-year tenure with the department, where he served as a community relations officer based in North Hollywood. The California Attorney General’s Office is investigating the shooting, which occurred after police were called to the clothing store because a man with a bicycle lock on a chain was assaulting customers.