Deon Jones protested George Floyd's murder. He's suing LAPD for shooting him with a rubber bullet.

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🗓️ 1 June 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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"The first thing that happened that I said was, 'God, please don’t let me die here today.'" The musician and entrepreneur shares how his protest experience changed his life.

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0:00.0	On Jonathan K. Parton, this is K-Pop.
0:06.4	After the video of George Floyd's murder horrified the world, millions of Americans around
0:11.4	the country took to the streets in protest.
0:14.1	Dion Jones was among them in Los Angeles, but something happened to the musician and
0:18.8	entrepreneur after one demonstration that changed his life.
0:22.5	I had been shot by a police officer with one of those rubber bullets and the first thing
0:29.7	that happened that I said was like, God, please don't let me die here today.
0:34.5	Jones, who counts the late Congressman John Lewis and Maya Angelou among his mentors, says
0:40.1	he had to do something here about his lawsuit against the LAPD with the goal of banning
0:46.2	rubber bullets right now.
0:52.5	Dion Jones, welcome to the podcast.
1:04.5	Thanks Jonathan, glad to be with you.
1:06.9	All right.
1:07.9	Well, I said welcome to the podcast, but it's really welcome back to the podcast.
1:13.6	And as you probably don't remember this, I mean, you remember coming to the Washington
1:18.5	Post, but it was on April 26th, 2017, four years and one month ago, when you came in
1:29.0	with Jesse Williams to talk about Ebrogie.
1:32.1	Yeah.
1:33.1	I saw a funny story about that is because we had a meeting, maybe about two blocks from
1:41.3	there, wherever that five guys is, across from Fergie, and I was like, oh, it's so close,
1:47.6	there's no need of us to like get a car or whatever, it was just walk, you know, over
1:52.6	to the thing.
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