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Killing of Prince Jones
1975–2000
United States
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Prince Carmen "Rocky" Jones Jr. (1975 – September 1, 2000) was an African-American man killed by a police officer in September 2000 in Virginia. Author Ta-Nehisi Coates attended Jones' memorial service, and later wrote at length about Jones' life and death in his 2015 book Between the World and Me, noting that the tragedies of racism are impossible to escape for Black people, even those well-off.
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