{"id":8054,"date":"2020-08-15T22:24:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-16T02:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=8054"},"modified":"2020-08-16T01:30:40","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T05:30:40","slug":"black-lives-matter-protester-charged-after-allegedly-assaulting-man-68-on-seaside-heights-boardwalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2020\/08\/black-lives-matter-protester-charged-after-allegedly-assaulting-man-68-on-seaside-heights-boardwalk\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Lives Matter Protester Charged After Allegedly Assaulting Man, 68, on Seaside Heights Boardwalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2417\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5451.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"Seaside Heights police car. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2417\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2417\" src=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5451-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Seaside Heights police car. (Photo: Daniel Nee)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5451-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5451-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5451-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5451-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5451-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seaside Heights police car. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A member of a group of about 25 protesters aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement was charged with simple assault by Seaside Heights police after he allegedly struck a 68-year-old man in the head during a verbal dispute, knocking him to the boardwalk.<\/p>\n<p>Jamaal Holmes, 28, of Branch Drive in Toms River, was arrested at about 3:30 p.m. as a group of protesters from Black Lives Matter were walking down the boardwalk, according to Detective Steve Korman of the borough police department.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes \u201cstruck a 68-year-old male subject in the facial area during a verbal altercation\u201d between the two, when the protesters were at Sherman Avenue and the Boardwalk, Korman said.<\/p>\n<p>After being struck the victim fell to the boardwalk, sustaining a small laceration to the back of the head, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Holmes was charged and released from the Seaside Heights Police Department.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2020\/08\/black-lives-matter-protester-charged-after-allegedly-assaulting-man-68-on-seaside-heights-boardwalk\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of a group of about 25 protesters aligned with the Black Lives Matter movement was charged with simple assault by Seaside Heights police after he allegedly struck a 68-year-old man in the head during a verbal dispute, knocking him to the boardwalk. Jamaal Holmes, 28, of Branch Drive in Toms River, was arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18,8,5],"tags":[1774,1773,476],"class_list":["post-8054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","category-seaside-heights","tag-assault","tag-jamaal-holmes","tag-seaside-heights-nj"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/IMG_5451.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-25U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}