Police arrived after the aggressors had fled. In another incident several hours earlier, Phoenix Jones had come to the defense of a potential fight victim.Jones was released on bail hours later with no charges having been filed. McNamee's video shows the woman hitting Phoenix Jones and another person with her shoe. The next day, videographer Ryan McNamee uploaded a video online showing Jones responding to what McNamee described as a "huge fight". They asked that the masked man be "arrested for attacking them." According to one woman who was involved in the altercation, after an argument had broken out between her group and another, Jones suddenly approached and pepper sprayed them, saying "I'm a superhero". According to police reports, the officers who responded determined that "there was no fight", with one member of the group denying that anyone among them had been fighting. Close associates, who were present and equipped with a video camera, told reporters that Phoenix Jones broke up an unfair fight between two groups of nightclub patrons. On Sunday, October 9, 2011, in Seattle, Jones was arrested for his role in an altercation involving pepper spray.Jones says he didn't receive any help from Seattle police, who took hours to respond to the incident. Jones was reported to have intervened and the hijacker escaped with his skin dyed orange due to the spray. The driver of the bus had been handing out fliers when another individual attempted to steal the bus. On Saturday, September 24, 2011, in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, Phoenix Jones doused a man with pepper spray after he attempted to steal a bus. Dan proceeded to thank Jones numerous times while later talking about Phoenix's gear. CBS News introduced Dan and Phoenix Jones to one another the following Monday evening. On Sunday, January 2, 2011, in Lynnwood, Phoenix Jones stopped and chased away a car thief as the car owner (who asked to be identified only as "Dan") stood by in shock as Jones ran into action.An individual using the pseudonym "Red Dragon" has also claimed to be a member of the group. In July 2011, local police recorded ten citizens patrolling the city in superhero costumes, using the names Thorn, Buster Doe, Green Reaper, The Mantis, Gemini, No Name, Catastrophe, Thunder 88, Penelope and Phoenix Jones. Jones later became part of the Rain City Superhero Movement. In a CBS news broadcast, Jones is shown entering a back room of an unnamed comic book store in which he changes into costume which consists of a Dragon Skin brand bulletproof vest and stab plating, as well as equipment including a stun baton, pepper spray or tear gas, handcuffs and a first aid kit. Jones went on to develop a full costume and pseudonym, when his crime-fighting behavior made him too recognizable. Jones is also a mixed martial artist signed to World Series of Fighting, where he has fought at two catchweights, which included fighting his older foster brother, UFC, Strikeforce and ONE Championship fighter Caros Fodor. Jones says that all members of the Rain City Superhero Movement have a military or mixed martial arts background. Jones says the best way to prevent getting mistaken for a criminal by the police is to wear a "supersuit", although local police have expressed concern that the strange costumes may lead to emergency calls from citizens who mistake the "superheroes" for criminals. From 2011 until its dissolution in 2014, Jones was the leader of the Rain City Superhero Movement, a Seattle, Washington based citizen patrol group that described itself as a crime prevention brigade. Initially wearing a ski mask to intervene in a public assault, Fodor later developed a full costume and adopted "Phoenix Jones" as a pseudonym. Phoenix Jones (born Benjamin John Francis Fodor, 1988 in Texas) is an American real-life superhero. Costumed vigilante, WSOF Fighter, mixed martial artistĬonfronting alleged lawbreakers while dressed in a superhero costume.
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