11-01-2015, 07:27 PM
(11-01-2015, 06:53 PM)SIXFOOTERsez Wrote: In the initial videos they were calling for the cop to be fired, prosecuted etc, same as always. They didn't have any more facts than anyone else. This was back the day it happened. To their credit there has not been a whole big circus around it
I didn't see any videos or read any articles quoting the Jones family members saying those things.
I've heard them asking for the truth to come out.
I've heard them say they want justice if Officer Raja did improper things, if he used excessive force -- they want him to be held accountable to the full measure of the law.
I've read that they wonder if Corey and Raja both mistook the other for something they weren't, which some police sources have reported to media as a possibility as well.
I've read that they are asking to find out if/how Raja identified himself as an officer considering he was outwardly just an armed dude in jeans and a cap, in a white van with tinted windows, who pulled up on Corey at 3 in the morning.
I've heard them asking why it took 38 hours for the family to be notified that Corey had been killed by a police officer.
Later, they wanted to know why Corey was shot at 6 times and hit 3 times even though Raja says that he was the one "confronted" by an armed "suspect" (suspected of what?) and forensics have confirmed that Corey never fired his gun and that he tried to run at some point.
One thing the Jones family has said it doesn't want is to have Corey's death turned into a racial issue.
"This is not a black thing," his brother C.J. said. "No disrespect about Black Lives Matter, (but) all lives matter. And my brother had plenty of friends -- white friends, Asian friends, it didn't matter."
Corey's father said in an interview, "I need some answers, I need to know why. Why is my son gone today? Why?" He was crying. I hope Corey Jones Sr. gets the answers he needs. If my child died like that, no matter his age, you bet your ass I'd be pushing to know what happened and why. I would need to know too.