Joe Kinsey
ESPN’s Mark Jones, best known for his NBA and college football assignments had quite the meltdown Wednesday, after the Breonna Taylor grand jury decision was announced. Jones, who has worked at ESPN since 1990, made it very clear Wednesday that he doesn’t need the help of police.
“Police never saved me. Never helped me,” Jones tweeted. “Never protected me. Never taken a bullet for me. (They’ve pulled guns on me) Never kept me safe in a protest. Never stopped the racist from taking my Black Lives Matter flag off my house. I could do without em. fr.
“Saturday at my football game I’ll tell the police officer on duty to “protect” me he can just take the day off,” Jones tweeted. [For real] 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.”
2020 Mark Jones must’ve forgotten about 2011 Mark Jones tweeting how much he loved cops helping him avoid traffic at places like Knoxville, Tennessee or in other crazed college football cities. Let’s embed these tweets, but I’m also going to save the screencaps in case Mark tries to pull a fast one on the Internet and delete these.
I'm not going to lie. I love our police escorts to the stadium. Saves us a good 40 min to 1 hour of not waiting in traffic.
— MarkJonesESPN (@MarkJonesESPN) October 8, 2011
Police escort to the Neyland Stadium and the game ! Gotta get to that announce booth.I sit in FRONT http://t.co/76MEpTSr
— MarkJonesESPN (@MarkJonesESPN) October 29, 2011
Traffic never looked so good in ATL on I75/I85. You must have a police escort. Lol. https://t.co/4fyc0deXfD
— MarkJonesESPN (@MarkJonesESPN) April 7, 2016
S/o to the Syracuse Police Dept who helped me secure the 💼 today. I appreciate y’all. Keep up the great work. Real professionals👏🏾👏🏾🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/RytChETJ6E
— MarkJonesESPN (@MarkJonesESPN) September 15, 2018
It’s unclear when Mark Jones turned from posting positive things about cops here and there to full-on radical anti-cop. Here’s a nice moment from 2016 where Jones appreciates what officer Tommy Norman is doing in the Little Rock, Arkansas community. Jones hasn’t mentioned Norman since. If you go over to Norman’s Instagram page, he’s still going strong as a bright spot in the community.
Police Officer Tommy Norman.Impacting his community in so many wonderful https://t.co/LT4YzpJLJa creates more love pic.twitter.com/Xaq2XmjvFv
— MarkJonesESPN (@MarkJonesESPN) July 15, 2016
Sir, you have worked for ESPN since 1990. How many times has the officer assigned to protect you shot at you? I'm assuming there is security whenever you are on assignment. I am asking seriously.
— ForeverABird (@ForTheBirds1521) September 24, 2020
Update: Mark Jones Twitter Liked a photo mocking “MAGA Nick Bosa” tearing his ACL.
Such a hypocrite. But that’s the environment at ESPN now. Such a woke joke. Didn’t they say they were going to move away from the politics because ratings were declining? That lasted long.
Typical espn talking head. Just spewing the company line to sound “woke”. It must be in their contracts.
“When Keeping it Woke Goes Wrong…”
Comedy gold right there. Can you imagine making a Chappelle-type show based on those old “keeping it real” skits when woke goes wrong?
Prime “In Living Color,” “MadTV,” and “Chappelle’s Show” would have a FIELD day with the foolery we’re witnessing here.
ESPN is a lost cause. They have their corralled audience and keep serving it the same slop. But how does NBA commissioner Adam Silver like it that his broadcast partner’s No. 2 PBP announcer assigned to call league games is alienating law enforcement officers and fans who favor them over street thugs? Will anyone involved with the NBA distance it from the garbage Jones spews relentlessly during telecasts? How low will Silver and the owners of the league go to achieve street cred, or at least not have their valuable assets revolt entirely — over false narratives and a lack of facts, most of the time? Will any of the fan boi NBA reporters even ask?
Such a desperate cry for attention. He looks like a fool. I hope the police don’t protect him.
Mmmmmm…That must be some awfully yummy Woke-rade, Mr. Jones.
Caught. Full blown lying liar, caught…socialists at work
He’s got to be getting some kind of money from these organizations to spout this garbage and put the fascist fist as his twitter avatar.
Internet is forever
Thank you very much for the excellent article/research, Mr. Kinsey.
Professional sports, and the collection of woke men and women of which the industry is comprised, have become full-on theater of the absurd.
You’re welcome DTOM.
There should be an opt-out for police support in each city. Enter your information and the police take you off their list of addresses and individuals they will respond to in the event of emergency. I wonder how many would actually sign up for it?
I love this idea, TD! Seriously. Let’s quit talking about your hatred for Blue and put some action to the words and opt-out.
What a POS so glad i don’t have espn come on Dana get the UFC off that sorry ass espn i wan’t to watch
What a loser. Sucks to be him.
Oh this is Mark Jones.
I had him confused with Markus Johnson.
It is kinda becoming clear that Black people will day or do anything that they see other black people say or do.
Like lemmings.
Game 3 comparisons of western conference finals. Nba lost 2.4 million viewers
Those tweets 100% are getting scrubbed by him. But why would anybody be surprised? The very movement he supports, the one with the fascist fist he so proudly displays on his tw@tter account, is full of people who yell “CALL THE COPS!” when people confront them, and then cheer and troll the person as they get arrested by cowardly cops who’d rather arrest a single person defending themselves against an unwashed mob instead of dispersing the unlawful assembly. Of COURSE he’s also going to be a hypocrite.
Mark Jones is another hypocritical jackass! The list just keeps getting longer.
You guys aren’t charging enough for VIP. I’d gladly pay double. Keep it up!
This.
Hey Doris Burke…call me and I’ll inform you why you’re a big time POS, too!!!
Don’t wanna be treated with privilege, no?
He claimed today on Twitter that it was a black guy who found his briefcase and gave it to the cops. But how did he know the guy was black if he didn’t meet him directly? Because the police told him? But he just said you can’t trust the police!
The woke nation is so pot committed at this point it will escalate into stupidity like this…
Oops. History of now. Old Jones : “I love cops”. New Jones – “I hate cops”. What a turd
This guy is apparently a real dick head.