![]() ![]() ![]() Jones says he didn't receive any help from Seattle police, who took hours to respond to the incident. Jones was reported to have intervened and the hijacker escaped with his skin dyed orange due to the spray. The driver of the bus had been handing out fliers when another individual attempted to steal the bus. On Saturday, September 24, 2011, in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, Phoenix Jones doused a man with pepper spray after he attempted to steal a bus.In the video, a police officer is shown later talking to Phoenix Jones and his group regarding the effect masks may have on an intoxicated individual. Jones threatens to use a stun baton as the angry and inebriated man approaches Jones with the intent to fight. In this report, footage shows Phoenix Jones preventing an intoxicated man from entering his car. A few days later, ABC News aired a news story covering Jones.Dan proceeded to thank Jones numerous times while later talking about Phoenix's gear. CBS News introduced Dan and Phoenix Jones to one another the following Monday evening. On Sunday, January 2, 2011, in Lynnwood, Phoenix Jones stopped and chased away a car thief as the car owner (who asked to be identified only as "Dan") stood by in shock as Jones ran into action.An individual using the pseudonym "Red Dragon" has also claimed to be a member of the group. In July 2011, local police recorded ten citizens patrolling the city in superhero costumes, using the names Thorn, Buster Doe, Green Reaper, The Mantis, Gemini, No Name, Catastrophe, Thunder 88, Penelope and Phoenix Jones. Jones later became part of the Rain City Superhero Movement. In a CBS news broadcast, Jones is shown entering a back room of an unnamed comic book store in which he changes into costume which consists of a Dragon Skin brand bulletproof vest and stab plating, as well as equipment including a stun baton, pepper spray or tear gas, handcuffs and a first aid kit. Jones went on to develop a full costume and pseudonym, when his crime-fighting behavior made him too recognizable. ![]() "And I thought, why didn't someone help him? There were seventy people outside that bar and no one did anything." Later, Jones says that he encountered a friend being seriously assaulted outside a bar, and after calling 911 he put on the mask from the earlier break-in and "made a commotion" until the police showed up. Jones was told that several people saw the break-in happen, but did not intervene. The first was when Jones says that his car was broken into and his son was injured after returning to the vehicle and falling on the broken glass. Jones says he wanted to take policing matters into his own hands after a few incidents changed his mind about Seattle. Jones is also a mixed martial artist signed to World Series of Fighting, where he has fought at two catchweights, which included fighting his older foster brother, UFC, Strikeforce and ONE Championship fighter Caros Fodor. Jones says that all members of the Rain City Superhero Movement have a military or mixed martial arts background. Jones says the best way to prevent getting mistaken for a criminal by the police is to wear a "supersuit", although local police have expressed concern that the strange costumes may lead to emergency calls from citizens who mistake the "superheroes" for criminals. From 2011 until its dissolution in 2014, Jones was the leader of the Rain City Superhero Movement, a Seattle, Washington based citizen patrol group that described itself as a crime prevention brigade. Initially wearing a ski mask to intervene in a public assault, Fodor later developed a full costume and adopted "Phoenix Jones" as a pseudonym. Phoenix Jones (born Benjamin John Francis Fodor, 1988 in Texas) is an American real-life superhero. Costumed vigilante, WSOF Fighter, mixed martial artistĬonfronting alleged lawbreakers while dressed in a superhero costume. ![]()
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