{"id":16374,"date":"2011-11-25T09:23:44","date_gmt":"2011-11-25T17:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reallifesuperheroes.org\/?p=16374"},"modified":"2011-11-25T09:23:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-25T17:23:44","slug":"seattle-superhero-avoids-charges-in-crime-fighting-fracas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/2011\/11\/25\/seattle-superhero-avoids-charges-in-crime-fighting-fracas\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle &#039;superhero&#039; avoids charges in crime-fighting fracas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted:<br \/>\nBy <a href=\"http:\/\/content.usatoday.com\/topics\/reporter\/Douglas+Stanglin\">Douglas Stanglin<\/a>, USA TODAY<br \/>\nNov 25, 2011<br \/>\nPhoenix Jones, a self-proclaimed superhero who roams Seattle streets to fight crime will not be charged for pepper-spraying a group he said he thought was fighting, Th<em>e Seattle Times<\/em>reports.<br \/>\nJones, who calls himself the leader of the Rain City Superhero Movement, faced a possible misdemeanor assault charge after the people he sprayed said they were dancing, not fighting.<br \/>\nSeattle City Attorney Pete Holmes said one factor in the decision not to prosecute is a state law allowing a person to use force if they reasonably believe another person is about to be injured, <em>The Times<\/em> reports.<br \/>\nIn addition, two of the alleged victims fled the scene and have not been located and interviewed, Holmes said.<br \/>\nAs for the mission of the 23-year-old masked crusader, whose real name is Benjamin Fodor, Holmes said he &#8220;is no hero, just a deeply misguided individual.&#8221;<br \/>\nJones, whose comments appear on his Facebook page <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/#%21\/pages\/Phoenix-Jones-Rain-City-Superhero-Crime-Fighting-Movement\/173088299395323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Phoenix Jones &amp; the Rain City Superhero Movement<\/a>, says, ?&#8221;I symbolize that the average person doesn&#8217;t have to walk around and see bad things and do nothing.&#8221;<br \/>\nJones could still face civil charges, the newspaper notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phoenix Jones, a self-proclaimed superhero who roams Seattle streets to fight crime will not be charged for pepper-spraying a group he said he thought was fighting, The Seattle Timesreports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[546,1374,2020,2041,2147,2338,2344,2548,2729],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374"}],"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=16374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rlsh.net\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}