{"id":16164,"date":"2011-10-11T22:43:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T05:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=16164"},"modified":"2011-10-11T22:43:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T05:43:06","slug":"milwaukee-gets-involved-in-seattles-real-life-superhero-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2011\/10\/11\/milwaukee-gets-involved-in-seattles-real-life-superhero-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee gets involved in Seattle\u2019s \u201creal life superhero\u201d controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Originally posted: origin.avclub.com\/milwaukee\/articles\/milwaukee-gets-involved-in-seattles-real-life-supe,63183\/
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\nBy Matt Wild
\nSay what you will about so-called \u201creal life superheroes\u201d\u2014that they\u2019re faintly ridiculous; that they\u2019re nothing more than deluded goofballs in lousy Halloween Express costumes\u2014but they sure know how to get some press. They do that even when it\u2019s not quite the press they hope to get.
\nTake Seattle\u2019s RLSH, \u201cPhoenix Jones.\u201d Early Sunday morning, Jones was arrested<\/a> after allegedly attacking several people with pepper spray. Jones claims he was only trying to break up a street brawl, and that he used the spray only after being attacked himself. Accompanying Jones on his ill-fated \u201cpatrol\u201d was Milwaukee\u2019s Tea Krulos, a proponent of the local RLSH movement, and the author of an upcoming book on the subject. Krulos was interviewed by msnbc.com<\/a> about this incident, and claimed in that interview that Jones was only protecting his fellow citizens:<\/p>\n

\u201cSix or seven guys were beating up two other guys,\u201d Krulos said, adding he heard \u201cloud, aggressive noises.\u201d One victim was thrown to the ground and kicked in the ribs. \u201cTwo other guys were wrestling with each other but not in a playful way\u2014and people were screaming.\u201d
\n\u201cNobody was dancing, it was not ambiguous, there was definitely fighting,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On his Heroes In The Night blog<\/a>, Krulos had this to add:<\/p>\n

Well, it\u2019s been a crazy weekend in Seattle. The media is blowing up with the story of Phoenix Jones being detained after intervening in a brawl. I was there. I witnessed the whole thing. I even got punched a couple times myself.
\nI will be giving a full account on the blog tomorrow. For now I want to dispute one thing\u2014the people Phoenix disrupted WERE NOT DANCING\/ \u201cFROLICKING,\u201d or \u201chaving a good time.\u201d
\nThey were beating the crap out of two people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UPDATE:<\/strong> Krulos had this to say to The A.V. Club<\/em>:<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t really condone or condemn Phoenix Jones\u2019 tactics. However, the reports circulating about him are completely untrue. The police report was based on the word of the people attacking two people who fled the scene. The media, in turn, began to report this as fact and began reporting that Jones had snuck up on a group of people \u201cdancing.\u201d
\nTrust me, Tea Krulos knows a dance party when he sees one, and that was not a dance party. As we were approaching the group we saw one guy slam another guy on the ground and begin to kick him and two other guys were grappling each other. Phoenix Jones ran into the group and told the guys to back up. When they didn\u2019t, he sprayed them with a high octane pepper spray. Things got pretty chaotic from there. Someone hit another person with a car, one of the girlfriends of the attackers began to hit Jones with her high heel shoe\u2014I even got punched in the face by a Russian dude while I was calling 911, Ryan also got thrown into a wall. The Russian dudes also got in their escalade and tried to run Jones down at one point.
\nWhen the cops showed up, one of them was pretty pissed off and not at all happy to see Mr. Jones. An officer read me, Phoenix and Ryan our Miranda rights, but after he found out me and Ryan were media he told us to get out of there\u2014didn\u2019t take statements. They detained Jones and kept him over night, released him but confiscated his \u201csuper suit\u201d as he calls it. He will appear in court later in the week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A video of the incident can be found here<\/a>. Dancing\/frolicking, or beating\/assaulting? And has the RLSH thing finally gone too far?
\nPhoenix Jones Stops Assault<\/a> from Ryan McNamee<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Say what you will about so-called \u201creal life superheroes\u201d\u2014that they\u2019re faintly ridiculous;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[226,1374,2005,2041,2181,2236,2279,2338,2606,2856],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}