{"id":49693,"date":"2020-08-19T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-jersey-blm-leader-charged-with-punching-elderly-man-during-rally\/"},"modified":"2020-08-19T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T15:19:00","slug":"new-jersey-blm-leader-charged-with-punching-elderly-man-during-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-jersey-blm-leader-charged-with-punching-elderly-man-during-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"#New Jersey BLM leader charged with punching elderly man during rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#New Jersey BLM leader charged with punching elderly man during rally<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-wrapper\" role=\"main\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>        August 19, 2020 <span>|<\/span> 11:19am              <span>|<\/span> Updated <span>August 19, 2020 | 11:50am<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                <span><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V_yLaXwR3ds?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" title=\"Video\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n                        A Black Lives Matter leader in New Jersey has been charged with punching an elderly man in the face \u2014 knocking him to the ground \u2014 when he tried to confront him at a boardwalk rally.<\/p>\n<p>Jamaal Holmes \u2014 the 28-year-old leader of a march Saturday in Seaside Heights \u2014 was busted for the violent, caught-on-camera clash with a 68-year-old objector, the Asbury Park Press said.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with simple assault for hitting the unidentified man \u201cin the facial area,\u201d leaving a \u201csmall laceration to the back of the head\u201d after he fell, Seaside Heights police spokesman Steve Korman told the paper.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes, of Toms River, admitted in interviews to pushing the man \u2014 but insisted it was only self-defense when the objector tried to rip off the \u201cV for Vendetta\u201d-style mask he was wearing for his rally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake the mask off, you scumbag!\u201d an unidentified man yelled at him in shaky footage of the confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>People around them gasped after sounds of the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>arent attack, none of which was captured in the footage that later showed the elderly man on the ground as Holmes carried on marching, the paper noted.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16158709\"><img alt=\"A still from a video showing the incident in Seaside Heights, New Jersey.\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Jamaal Holmes<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what happens when you lay hands on people, buddy,\u201d Holmes is heard saying through a loudspeaker.<\/p>\n<p>The Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office is investigating claims by Holmes and other witnesses that the alleged attack was only in self-defense, the department announced Tuesday, calling for more witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe comes up to me to try to rip my mask off, I step back from him because he put his hands on my face first,\u201d Holmes told NJ.com. He only pushed him away when he tried to grab it a second time, with the man falling over a bicycle, Holmes insisted.<\/p>\n<p>His attorney, Brenda Roman Maneri, told NJ.com, \u201cSimply stated, we are confident when all the evidence has been gathered, it will clearly demonstrate: Jamaal Holmes was twice accosted by a counter-demonstrator and acted in self-defense.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/08\/19\/blm-leader-charged-with-punching-elderly-man-during-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#New Jersey BLM leader charged with punching elderly man during rally&#8221; August 19, 2020 | 11:19am | Updated August 19, 2020 | 11:50am A Black Lives Matter leader in New Jersey has been charged with punching an elderly man in the face \u2014 knocking him to the ground \u2014 when he tried to confront him&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55598],"class_list":["post-49693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-new-jersey-blm-leader-charged-with-punching-elderly-man-during-rally"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}