Reply #10: Van Jones' Own Words... [View All]

[crsteiny]

In early May 1992, after the L.A. riots had ended, Jones was dispatched by LCCR Executive Director Eva Patterson to serve as a legal monitor at a nonviolent protest (against the Rodney King verdicts) in San Francisco. Local police, fearful that the event would devolve into violence, stopped the proceedings and arrested many of the participants, including all the legal monitors. Jones spent a short time in jail, and all charges against him were subsequently dropped.

Recalling his brief incarceration, Jones says: “I met all these young radical people of color. I mean really radical: communists and anarchists. And it was, like, ‘This is what I need to be a part of.’ I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary.”

Not such a strong case when the man admits he was in prison - his words. Eva Patterson obviously also has a biased opinion when it comes to Jones. This is of little relevance to the big picture, but Mr Beck pointed out he was arrested in San Fransisco, not sure what Ms Patterson means by saying he wasn't even in LA.