It wasn’t the weapons.
Or the bullets.
It was the Tweets.
Jack Jones?
Sufferer.
The licensed system?
Rigged.
Criticism of Jones’ alleged actions relating to these unregistered, loaded handguns that confirmed up at Logan Airport security Friday evening time in a bag with Jones’ establish on it?
Racist.
Those that categorical criticism of his alleged actions?
Bigots.
That’s the summation of most of the people safety provided by Jones’ lawyer Rosemary Scapicchio Tuesday. “He had no intention of bringing any weapons into Logan Airport that day,” she added of her shopper.
Scapicchio’s safety of Sean Ellis, whose 1995 first-degree murder conviction was overturned after spending 22 years in jail, was featured throughout the Netflix “Trial 4” docuseries.
She attended Suffolk Legislation College concurrently Mrs. OBF.
She’s good.
Jones pleaded not accountable to plenty of firearms-related prices Tuesday and stays free on $30,000 bail. Jones may be once more in court docket docket on Aug. 18.
If solely Jones was a member of the Biden family.
For now, the true crime right here’s what was talked about about Scapicchio’s shopper.
“It’s the social media, and the media, who’ve turned him right into a thug, who have labeled him a ‘thug,’ with no proof in any respect. This isn’t a scenario the place Mr. Jones ever wished to be a thug or considered a thug. However as a result of he’s a younger Black man, impulsively, he’s a thug,” Scapicchio talked about.
“That’s what occurred right here. There’s no proof of that in any respect. And it’s disrespectful to Mr. Jones and everybody else. Each different Black man in America who’s younger and Black is known as a thug as a result of he occurs to be Black on this scenario. That is the institutional racism that we take care of daily within the court docket system. There’s no indication in any method that he was disrespectful (or) did something to say that he wished to be a gang member or a thug. He’s a younger Black man charged with against the law,” Scapicchio continued.
“Due to this fact, he should wish to be a gang member. He should wish to be a thug. That label that was connected to him by way of social media nearly acquired him fired. And it was fully unfounded.”
That’s 9 mentions of Jones being a “thug” by his lawyer in merely 54.2 seconds.
Transfer over Jim Crow. Right here comes Pat Patriot.
Sadly, Rosemary’s little one proper right here isn’t backed by the proof.
A Google search turned up no level out of “Jack Jones” and “thug” sooner than proper now. An examination of Twitter found 4 Tweets referring to Jones as a “thug” on the social platform throughout the 85 hours between tales of Jones’ arrest and noon Tuesday.
The posters had 87, 217, 299 and 6,194 followers. None have been verified nor linked to totally different platforms. The Tweets earned a whole of 958 impressions as of 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
This was larger than an hour after Scapicchio’s Tony-award worthy effort outside East Boston Municipal Courtroom.
There’s nowhere on planet Earth outside Massachusetts and Manhattan the place an lawyer would possibly credibly make this case and hope it’ll work. However Scapicchio is conscious of her viewers.
The introduction of the race card leaves the Patriots and Robert Kraft in a bind.
Scapicchio thanked the Patriots for guaranteeing Jones stayed “nearly” fired.
She moreover made it clear that firing Jones would make the Patriots or NFL no larger than these 4 people on Twitter who often called her shopper a thug. And her phrases and actions made it positive Jones goes to stay in Foxboro for a while.
Or else.
Think about if the Patriots have been to “fireplace” Jones?
Kraft should be warned.
All these platitudes about Black Lives Mattering, all these knees by way of the Nationwide Anthem, all that jail justice reform, and all that top high quality time with Meek Mill obtained’t indicate an element as quickly as Kraft is accused by an exact social media mob of throwing a youthful, yet-to-be convicted Black man beneath the bus.
The 4 Tweets by way of which Jones was often called a thug may be modified by 4 million footage of Kraft and his earlier BFF Donald Trump.
“Everybody turned him into this thug and this wannabe gangster with no proof in any respect. We’re suggesting you do your analysis earlier than you begin writing like that,” Scapicchio added.
“Analysis.”
If solely, counselor. If solely.
Scapicchio threw a great deal of haymakers on Tuesday. Her largest drawback, and that going by way of her shopper, may be what’s throughout the police report.
Or so says safety lawyer Mark Bederow.
“The problem is whether or not Jones ‘knowingly’ possessed the firearms when he had them on the airport,” Bederow suggested me by way of email correspondence. “Jones’ lawyer is laying the muse for ‘I didn’t know they had been within the bag’ . . . Prosecutors will monitor the weapons, serial numbers and see if they arrive again to him. They’ll take a look at his social media. And so they’ll probably transfer to compel Jones to offer a DNA pattern to check to the weapons.”
“It’ll be fascinating to see what proof will assist his ‘I didn’t know’ protection. For now, it looks like a stretch, and he seems to be in actual hassle and at critical danger for doing time,” Bederow added.
For the Patriots, the timing and particulars of this case delivered a poignant reminder of their dalliance with mass-murderer Aaron Hernandez.
And the Unhealthy Previous Days on the entire.
The tenth anniversary of Hernandez’s arrest for the murder of Odin Lloyd comes on Monday. Hernandez’s troubled earlier was not info to anyone throughout the Patriots group. Quite it was a badge of honor for the likes of Invoice Belichick and Kraft. They really think about they could rework a real-life murderous thug into an honorable citizen for the worth of some hugs and a five-year, $40 million contract extension.
It tragically didn’t work.
If solely Hernandez carried out the race card.
He may be catching balls from Mac Jones this se
ason.
(Invoice Speros (@BillSperos and @RealOBF) will probably be reached at [email protected])
