{"id":8058,"date":"2020-08-18T13:46:49","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/?p=8058"},"modified":"2020-08-18T13:46:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:46:49","slug":"prosecutors-office-reviewing-circumstances-of-boardwalk-blm-protesters-assault-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/2020\/08\/prosecutors-office-reviewing-circumstances-of-boardwalk-blm-protesters-assault-arrest\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutor&#8217;s Office Reviewing Circumstances of Boardwalk BLM Protester&#8217;s Assault Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-22c26e10f10834f210160c4a0bb80de6 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:600px; height:550px; max-height:550px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" title=\"Seaside Heights BLM march\" width=\"600\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xrDxyVeC3_0?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n<p>The Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s office said it was conducting a review of the \u201cfacts and circumstances\u201d around the arrest of a Black Lives Matter protester who was charged with assaulting a 68-year-old man while he led a group of about 25 people down the boardwalk Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Jamaal Holmes, 28, the organizer of the march, was charged with simple assault and released following the altercation. Holmes has since claimed he acted in self-defense after the man tried to pull a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy_Fawkes_mask\">Guy Fawkes mask<\/a> off his face. The Guy Fawkes mask is often used by demonstrators connected to anti-establishment groups following its popularization in the film \u201cV for Vendetta.\u201d Police said the older man was pushed to the ground and suffered a laceration to the head.<\/p>\n<p>Any eyewitnesses to this incident are being encouraged to contact Sgt. Thomas Tiernan of the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office at 732-929-2027, extension 3149, or Detective David Margentino of the Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s Office at extension 3246.<\/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\/prosecutors-office-reviewing-circumstances-of-boardwalk-blm-protesters-assault-arrest\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ocean County Prosecutor\u2019s office said it was conducting a review of the \u201cfacts and circumstances\u201d around the arrest of a Black Lives Matter protester who was charged with assaulting a 68-year-old man while he led a group of about 25 people down the boardwalk Saturday. Jamaal Holmes, 28, the organizer of the march, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8059,"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":[],"class_list":["post-8058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-police-fire-courts","category-seaside-heights"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Screen-Shot-2020-08-18-at-1.46.06-PM.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgsn9q-25Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058","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=8058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/lavallette-seaside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}