{"id":1827307,"date":"2023-01-28T13:20:14","date_gmt":"2023-01-28T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1827307"},"modified":"2023-01-28T13:20:50","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T18:20:50","slug":"democrat-mondaire-jones-slammed-over-tweet-about-death-of-tyre-nichols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrat-mondaire-jones-slammed-over-tweet-about-death-of-tyre-nichols\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Mondaire Jones Slammed Over Tweet About Death Of Tyre Nichols"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrat-mondaire-jones-slammed-over-tweet-about-death-of-tyre-nichols%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1827307&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Rep. Mondaire (D-NY), was attacked online late this week for a tweet suggesting that five black police officers accused of the murder of Tyre Nicks were motivated by \u201canti-blackness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Three days later, Nichols passed away on January 10. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/memphis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Memphis<\/a> In a traffic stop, police pulled him over. \u201creckless driving\u201d Near Raines Road, Ross Road in Memphis Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Police claimed that during the stop, a \u201cconfrontation occurred,\u201d At this point, Nichols fled on foot from police as they tried to apprehend. Video of the incident was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/body-cam-footage-released-showing-incident-between-police-and-tyre-nichols\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Published<\/a> Last night by law enforcement<\/p>\n<p>Jones responded to Nichols\u2019 death by tweeting,\u00a0\u201cIf you think the Memphis police officers had to be white in order to exhibit anti-Blackness, you need to take that AP African American Studies course [Florida Republican Governor] Ron DeSantis just banned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kind of proving the point of why the course was rejected\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Most people don\u2019t think that it\u2019s reasonable to indoctrinate HS kids to believe 5 Black police officers abusing their power and needlessly beating a man is evidence of anti-Blackness. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VxFXBSsEcc\">pic.twitter.com\/VxFXBSsEcc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AG (@AGHamilton29) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AGHamilton29\/status\/1619362550415790081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019 tweet garnered backlash and mockery online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKind of proving the point of why the course was rejected,\u201d Twitterged the popular conservative account AG. \u201cMost people don\u2019t think that it\u2019s reasonable to indoctrinate HS kids to believe 5 Black police officers abusing their power and needlessly beating a man is evidence of anti-Blackness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Radio host Jason Rantz tweeted, \u201cThis is a great argument against the CRT course masquerading as AP African American history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Matt Walsh, Daily Wire Podcast host, tweets \u201cIf you blame white supremacy for black on black crime, you\u2019ve probably taken way too many of those kinds of courses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones\u2019 shot at DeSantis comes after curriculum for AP African American Studies from the College Board generated massive backlash in Florida because it contained leftist activism.<\/p>\n<p>Recent news from the Florida Department of Education <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/contrary-to-florida-law-desantis-rejects-high-school-course-emerging-nationwide-over-wokeness-concerns\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Be informed<\/a> the College Board that the course\u2019s content is \u201cinexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value,\u201d The state could reevaluate its course of action if the material is not received by it, he said. \u201clawful\u201d  \u201chistorically accurate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re advocating things like abolishing prisons. Now that\u2019s a radical political position,\u201d DeSantis responded to the question of what was in his curriculum. \u201cYou\u2019re free to take that in your own life, I don\u2019t think very many people think that would actually work, but how is that being taught as fact?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis said that black history does not have to be considered inseparable from the history of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s what our standards for black history are: it\u2019s just cut-and-dry history. You learn all the basics, you learn about the great figures,\u201d He made a comment. \u201cI view it as American history. I don\u2019t view it as separate history.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mondaire Jones (D-NY) was slammed online late this week over a tweet that suggested that the five black police officers who are accused of being involved in the murder of Tyre Nichols were motivated by \u201canti-blackness.\u201d Nichols died on January 10, three days after Memphis police pulled him over in a traffic stop for &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1827310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6499,4912,3935,16839,16774,5151,5293,16773],"class_list":["post-1827307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-death","tag-democrat","tag-jones","tag-mondaire","tag-nichols","tag-slammed","tag-tweet","tag-tyre"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1827307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1827310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1827307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1827307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1827307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}