An account of the incident with Phoenix Jones, whose author claims to have been on the scene and peripherally involved, can be found at http://heroesinthenight.blogspot.com/2011/10/statement-on-phoenix-jones-patrol.html. It's interesting to hear a complete description of the whole incident. Is it all true? The blogger is writing a book about "real life superheroes" and potentially has some stake in making Phoenix and his crew look interesting. Still, the account given by the blogger in question sounds pretty plausible and it accounts for all of the known facts.
Maybe the most interesting thing about it is how the "superhero" and his crew could see a fight in progress (Phoenix seems to be stretching the truth a bit about stopping attempted murder,but one guy does get hit by a car) while the police arriving later would see a group of citizens assaulted with pepper spray without sufficient cause.
I'm afraid that the video of Phoenix dodging the attack by the woman who was angry about being maced or angry about her boyfriend getting maced or both, isn't doing much for his public image. Of course, the plain truth is that most of these guys don't have a public image to begin with, despite whatever publicity they've had. (I say that as a resident of the greater Seattle area. I don't mean that they have "bad" image, I mean that they have almost no public recognition beyond "there are some guys in town who style themselves as superheros".)
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An account of the incident with Phoenix Jones, whose author claims to have been on the scene and peripherally involved, can be found at http://heroesinthenight.blogspot.com/2011/10/statement-on-phoenix-jones-patrol.html. It's interesting to hear a complete description of the whole incident. Is it all true? The blogger is writing a book about "real life superheroes" and potentially has some stake in making Phoenix and his crew look interesting. Still, the account given by the blogger in question sounds pretty plausible and it accounts for all of the known facts. Maybe the most interesting thing about it is how the "superhero" and his crew could see a fight in progress (Phoenix seems to be stretching the truth a bit about stopping attempted murder,but one guy does get hit by a car) while the police arriving later would see a group of citizens assaulted with pepper spray without sufficient cause. I'm afraid that the video of Phoenix dodging the attack by the woman who was angry about being maced or angry about her boyfriend getting maced or both, isn't doing much for his public image. Of course, the plain truth is that most of these guys don't have a public image to begin with, despite whatever publicity they've had. (I say that as a resident of the greater Seattle area. I don't mean that they have "bad" image, I mean that they have almost no public recognition beyond "there are some guys in town who style themselves as superheros".)