Comments on: Agent: Pacman Jones cuffed 45 minutes before being released

By: methomps

methomps — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:08:50 +0000

Amazing how reasonable Florio gets when it is a West Virginia player.

By: PurpleNGold

PurpleNGold — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:05:47 +0000

@ TerpsFan1972
Credibility is not lost by becoming a “person of interest” to the police. It’s not lost by refusing to testify to the Grand Jury, as in the case of the peace activists in Minneapolis and Chicago who have recently been targeted by the FBI. The burden of proof is on the accuser, and a police media release describing a “person of interest” is as irresponsible and arrogant as FBI SWAT smashing the furniture in the homes of these activists.

By: Deb

Deb — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:08:58 +0000

@John3783 …
In matters like this, I err toward the side of civil rights. It bothers me that it took 45 minutes to confirm that a well-known sports figure with a felony record of his own was not the Adam Jones in the warrant. But I can only speculate why that happened–and so can you. We have no evidence that it was a case of malicious intent.
The cops couldn’t let him go until they made the verification. Then again, you give a guy a badge and a gun, and 9 times out of 10, he goes on a stormtrooper power trip. So maybe the cops were being jerks. OR maybe there was a good reason the verification took that long. We don’t know.
But one thing we know for certain: These things happen whether the cops are in Alaska, California, New York, Oklahoma, Mississippi, or Kentucky. So your regional rant did nothing but identify you as a bigot. People who slander others based on their race, religion, ethnicity, or place of origin are bigots, John. So guess what? If it’s us v. them, you’re them.

By: rskills

rskills — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:19:00 +0000

This is pretty terrible, but I knew a dude who had a warrant out for his arrest, also mistaken identity, that actually sat in jail for 2 weeks before they got it straight. The worst part: he couldn’t have committed the other crime cause he was in jail at the time!

By: cacaw410

cacaw410 — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:58:39 +0000

any athletes named adam jones should just change their names to avoid any confusion.... http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/05/29/orioles-adam-jones-detained-pacman-to-blame/

By: C-Student

C-Student — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 09:01:26 +0000

Hunter said. “Everybody saw him being arrested.”
i’m pretty sure adam is used to that by now.
although i hate cops just as much as the next man, unfortunately they are a necessary evil.
who among you wants to go into some guy’s house and pull him off his old lady only to risk her putting a knife in your back while you’re cuffing the scumbag boyfriend? that and much worse for $40 grand per year? i’ll pass

By: RealCSI820

RealCSI820 — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:58:33 +0000

The officers followed their department policy. Warrants usually give the name dob and a last known address. Major warrants also give the wanted person Fingerprint Classification, which is how they probably ID’d the proper Mr. Jones. Handcuffing is for the officers protection, we don’t know what the warrant was for, could have been something as simple as traffic citations or murder…we weren’t there…45 minutes is better days on a bad identification…

By: theroc5156

theroc5156 — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:52:21 +0000

Perhaps Jones and the rest of the Bengals should be arrested for impersonating a professional football team.

By: jm91rs

jm91rs — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:48:33 +0000

The issue I have is that these guys know who Adam “Pacman” Jones is. He’s no flight risk, if they aren’t 100% sure that it wasn’t Pacman that they were looking for, then have the guy sit on the sidewalk while they figure it out. Don’t cuff him, he’s not going anywhere.

By: TheDPR

TheDPR — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:41:46 +0000

The police could have kept him at the scene until they knew for sure.
No one in their right mind expects the cops to let a guy walk when he has the same name as a guy they’re looking for, but to cuff him and drive away with him in the cruiser WITHOUT KNOWING they have the right guy should be a crime in itself.
Police everywhere aren’t corrupt but there are too many stories like this from too many places. This is a real problem.
Police exist to protect the public; the public shouldn’t need to be protected from the police.

By: JimmySmith

JimmySmith — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:40:49 +0000

Its called karma folks, plain and simple.

By: BengalsDouche2

BengalsDouche2 — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:33:36 +0000

steelkiller says:
October 11, 2010 12:29 AM
The Police were right to cuff him. Until any of you walk a mile in a cops shoes you know nothing. Over 50,000 police are killed every year in the US. And most of those are over traffic calls. The police could have chosen that he lay on his stomach on the ground with his legs crossed and his hands on his head if they wanted to. That is also acceptable. But they chose to Cuff him until they got confirmation. It’s not like they demanded the Bro dance a Jig for them
Get over yourselves already.
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Yeah cuffing him and having him wait at the scene until his identity is verified is one thing. But leaving the scene with him in the car and letting him go 2 blocks later b/c you’ve suddenly realized it wasn’t him is a whole other ball game. The cops in this case made a huge mistake and now they should pay. I really hope Adam goes after the department for this one. They’ll deserve every bit of crap they get. It’s so easy for officers to verify the identity of someone these days that this kind of mistake just should not happen.

By: Floridacock

Floridacock — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 08:27:25 +0000

So much hate in these posts. Thought you were going to clean this up Florio

By: Bigbluefan

Bigbluefan — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:57:37 +0000

Do we have any idea what the other Adam Jones was wanted for?
Murder Rape armed robbery
If it was any violent crime the cuffs are a given keeps everyone safe and sound.
I am sure the guy who got shot in Vegas would trade places with him in a heart beat as he will never walk again so 45 minutes in cuffs would be a walk in the park
Get over it better to hold the wrong thug for 45 min then let him get away
Our police are undermaned under armed did they beat him no so he was cuffed for 45 mins TFB

By: ejtowne

ejtowne — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:41:29 +0000

Who cares about his rep, or whether everyone saw him being handcuffed and arrested, the fact is that we know our Law Enforcement workers are taking the proper steps in handling a possible criminal. They may have gotten it wrong at first, but it was corrected. I’m sure they also apologized.
My brother-in-law is an officer in Upstate NY. I would rather him be safe and keep my family safe by detaining somebody for 45 minutes on accident than have a criminal re-released to the streets just because they don’t wanna embarass or hurt their feelings.

By: PurpleNGold

PurpleNGold — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:29:56 +0000

@Steelkiller
As of October 11, according to The National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund website, 123 officers have been killed in the line of duty so far this year. 89 were killed last year.
The Bro? His name is Adam.

By: oif3gunner

oif3gunner — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 07:24:21 +0000

Google doesn’t take 45 minutes to get a list of names

By: brasho

brasho — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:39:53 +0000

Florio, EVERYBODY makes mistakes. It’s just that when a cop makes a mistake, sometimes the wrong people get arrested and the right ones don’t. It happens.
Considering how many errors I’ve seen in your writing lately, or the Terry Bradshaw thing, you shouldn’t be holding a writing gig if society was unaccepting of the fact that everybody screws up. Like your hiring of Rosenthal for instance… just kidding. The guy can’t proofread to save his life but it seems the little moron has started to grow on me.

By: brasho

brasho — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 06:37:16 +0000

I got pulled over in AZ a few years ago. I was told I was going to be arrested for not having a breathalyzer ignition device installed in my car.
My wife told the officer that I had never had a DUI before, he responded, “There’s probably a lot of things your husband hasn’t told you.” Which had a me a tad bit pissed.
I told my wife not to worry and that she was going to need the car home and I hoped that I would be released (it was a Friday) on the same day instead of spending the entire weekend in jail. I had never had a DUI before and I assumed the officer was making a big mistake, he stated that it said on my registration report that I had an “interlock something-or-other”…
So I accepted the fact that I was going to jail… and I was also thinking about how I was going to cash in due to somebody’s error (the Phoenix police officer or the VA DMV for putting that on my registration).
As it turns out, the cop came back to my car and didn’t mention anything about me being arrested or anything. He wrote me a ticket for expired registration and that was it. I guess he called and checked his error and got it figured out.
Regardless, my wife was more upset than I was… but EVERYBODY makes mistakes. It’s just that when a cop makes a mistake, sometimes the wrong people get arrested and the right ones don’t. It happens.

By: anton_chigur

anton_chigur — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 05:27:31 +0000

The chief of police should just apologize and defuse all of this…

By: Maximus

Maximus — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 03:58:12 +0000

I find it difficult to feel sorry for the guy. I mean trouble just seems to find him.
And the Baltimore Orioles CF named Adam Jones was denied entry into Canada to play the Blue Jays this summer because they thought he was the Titans Adam Jones. The O’s Adam Jones has never been in trouble but his namesake gets him in trouble. What a loser Pacman is!
He’s an embarrassment to the league and should be banished.

By: mashoaf

mashoaf — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 01:37:45 +0000

Did they follow procedure by reading him his Miranda Rights and giving him the right to speak with his attorney? Seeing how he is an athlete i would imagine the team has a few lawyers phone number for players to dial right away if anything is to come about.

By: eaglelover1

eaglelover1 — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 01:09:11 +0000

“It’s not like they demanded the Bro dance a Jig for them ”
Steelkiller have you washed your sheets lately?

By: steelkiller

steelkiller — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:29:27 +0000

The Police were right to cuff him. Until any of you walk a mile in a cops shoes you know nothing. Over 50,000 police are killed every year in the US. And most of those are over traffic calls. The police could have chosen that he lay on his stomach on the ground with his legs crossed and his hands on his head if they wanted to. That is also acceptable. But they chose to Cuff him until they got confirmation. It’s not like they demanded the Bro dance a Jig for them
Get over yourselves already.

By: Diego

Diego — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:28:02 +0000

You know something Florio?
The constant and obnoxious reflection of your opinions in every post usually infuriates me.
But you really hit a home run on this one.

By: Tjackfan

Tjackfan — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 00:25:35 +0000

That was some garbage that he had to go through. However, while we are on the subject of making wrongs write, stop calling him PACMAN JONES! He made it clear that he wants to be known as ADAM. He is trying to shed his past, and that was the first step. The media needs to start respecting this simple request which ADAM Jones has made.

By: John3783

John3783 — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:58:56 +0000

It’s easy for you computer nerds to spend God knows how long sharing your worthless little opinion on some forum without actually having gone through the ordeal. To the pitifully laughable argument that “the police were simply doing their jobs, what if they had released the actual perp?!?!@$!# OMG!@!#” Listen very carefully. *COMPETENT* law enforcement can easily check, undoubtedly, whether he was the real perpetrator or not. There are about a half a dozen ways off the top of my mind, but the most simple, and the easiest way to get through to you little Internet nerds – his birthday is obviously on his drivers license. The birthday of the “perp” definitely appeared in the system. It would have taken a millisecond for a competent law enforcement officer to comprehend and deduce such simple information. There is *NO* doubt about the incompetency of the police in this case. What do you expect from some little redneck officers in Kentucky though? It’s not like they have an inkling of real world or big city experience. Of course they would screw something so basic, so easy, so commonly done by regular law enforcement nationwide every minute.

By: sportsbruh3

sportsbruh3 — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:54:50 +0000

Sweet AMERICAN LIBERTY….was never intended for the poor, the brown, the red, and the others. It was only intended for the ELITES.
Even the unwassed white masses suffer at the hands of Elite encroachment via State Police and political impotency.

By: Wizahdry

Wizahdry — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:54:22 +0000

Pacman needs to milk this one. What are the chances he would get arrested in error? Gotta admit the cops where kinda playing with good odds he could have been wanted. That said he still deserved better

By: SeaColt213

SeaColt213 — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:36:13 +0000

This is funny b/c the exact same thing happened to the Baltimore Orioles Adam Jones at the border on his way to go play the Toronto Blue Jays… Get a clue and just catch the actual perp and you can stop lockin up the wrong A. Jones.