ESPN play-by-play announcer Mark Jones will refuse the standard police protection for his Saturday college football game, he said on Twitter.
The tweet came in the early hours of Thursday after the officers who shot Breonna Taylor were not charged in her death. Jones is working the game between Army and No. 16 Cincinnati at Nippert Stadium in Ohio.
ESPN announcer says police can ‘take the day off’
Jones, who is Black, said in the tweet that he’ll tell the police officer he “can just take the day off.” He said it was for his own protection from police that he didn’t want the security detail.