LOOK: Republicans hand out ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ cards mocking Virginia AG hopeful Jay Jones’ scandals
Monopoly-style cards reference Jones’ community service controversy and texts envisioning a GOP leader’s murder
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FIRST ON FOX: As Virginia Democratic attorney general candidate Jay Jones faces mounting backlash over multiple scandals, Republicans are handing out Monopoly-style cards to voters mocking the Democrat’s controversies.
Fox News Digital obtained images of the cards from the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA), which first distributed them during its “Hit the Road, Jay” media tour in Roanoke and the neighboring Shenandoah Valley.
Four cards, designed to resemble those in Charles B. Darrow’s famous board game based off Atlantic City real estate, include images of Jones taking the place of “Uncle Pennybags.”
“RAGA is spotlighting that it’s rules for Jay, but not for thee, whether it’s zero accountability for murderous text messages or zero punishment for crimes that land most Virginians behind bars,” RAGA Executive Director Adam Piper told Fox News Digital on Tuesday.
The Republican Attorneys General Association printed Monopoly-style cards like this one to criticize Jay Jones. (Courtesy: Republican Attorney Generals Association)
Some of the cards included an orange “Chance” card reading “Rules for Jay but not for thee” – “Community service for political gain” – “Paid by law firm for community service” – “Now under criminal investigation for fraud.“
That card references criticism of Jones having filed 1,000 hours of community service with his own political action committee and the NAACP following a 116-mph reckless driving arrest.
Critics have suggested there is more to the sworn affirmation of those service hours as the second county prosecutor in a week filed a recusal request from the otherwise murky ongoing investigation.
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A Fox News Digital freedom of information request for New Kent County seeking communications and records between the signatories of those sworn hours and the county itself remains outstanding.
Two other cards – one in “Community Chest” yellow and the other in “Chance” orange – mimic the well-known “Get out of jail free” card but featuring Jones’ face instead of Pennybags.
The Republican Attorneys General Association printed Monopoly-style cards like this one to criticize Jay Jones. (Courtesy: Republican Attorney Generals Association)
A fourth card modeled off of Monopoly’s “Community Chest” selections includes a recounting of the substance of Jones’ scandalous texts that came to light earlier this month:
“Jay Jones believes: [checkmark] political opponents should die, [checkmark] political opponents’ kids should die, [checkmark] cops should die.”
“No wonder Jay Jones voted for no-cash bail.”
Virginia attorney general candidate Jay Jones is seen with an image of one of the Republican Attorneys General Association’s Get out of Jail Free cards (Parker Michels-Boyce for The Washington Post via Getty Images/RAGA via Fox News Digital)
A RAGA official told Fox News Digital that the cards continue to be distributed among many of Virginia’s county and independent-city Republican Party offices to share with the public.
A moving billboard featuring the card images was also dispatched to roam around the capital city of Richmond this week.
That timing coincides with Virginia Democrats reconvening a special session that never officially closed earlier this term in order to ram through a constitutional amendment that would allow them to redraw congressional district boundaries.
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The Republican Attorneys General Association printed Monopoly-style cards like this one to criticize Jay Jones. (Courtesy: Republican Attorney Generals Association)
Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, who is running for governor and currently presides over the otherwise Democratic-majority state Senate, condemned the move and called it a ploy to try to pull her off the campaign trail.
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She is expected to hold a campaign rally with Gov. Glenn Youngkin near South Boston, Va., later Tuesday.
Fox News Digital reached out to Jones’ campaign for comment.
‘Get out of jail free’ card doesn’t work, police tell California driver
Dom McAndrew
Thu, November 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM GMT+7
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FULLERTON, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A “get out of jail free” card is not a valid legal defense, police say, after a driver in Southern California attempted to use the card after a traffic stop.
The BMW driver, who was trying to get out of a traffic citation, presented the card to officers “in a last-ditch effort,” according to the Fullerton Police Department.
In a post on social media on Tuesday, police admired the driver’s creativity but added that the “get out of jail free card” is not a legal defense.
While the Fullerton Police Department has made it clear that their officers do not honor the card, the rules of Monopoly do state that the card “may be kept until needed or sold.”
This attempt is not the first time someone has tried to use a “get out of jail free” card to deal with a police encounter. According to the FBI, in March 1967, one of the bureau’s top 10 most wanted presented a “get out of jail free” card to the agents who apprehended him. However, despite the creativity, James Robert Ringrose was still arrested.
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The Officers Who Killed Renee Good Appear To Have Violated ICE’s Own Use-Of-Force Policies
Brandi Buchman
Tue, February 3, 2026 at 6:17 AM GMT+7
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The federal agents led by an ICE officer who surrounded and fatally shot Renee Good in Minneapolis last month appear to have violated the agency’s policies regarding the use of force during nearly every step of the encounter, according to internal documents obtained by HuffPost.
The ICE Firearms and Use of Force Directive states that it “serves as the authoritative guidance” for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. It outlines requirements on how to handle fleeing subjects, including those who are in a vehicle; how to properly handle firearms in close proximity to people; guidelines for deescalation; and what actions agents should take before resorting to deadly force.
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“ICE employees are expected to be familiar with the contents of this Handbook and required to take appropriate action to comply with policies and procedures established herein,” it says. “Violation of the policies and procedures contained in this Handbook may be grounds for disciplinary action or other appropriate action.”
Video of the encounter shows three officers approaching Good’s vehicle, and at least two of them instructing her to get out. Good is sitting in the driver’s seat, while her wife stands beside the vehicle. The federal agents bark commands at Good to “get out of the ******* car”; one reaches inside the driver’s side window and attempts to unlock the door. ICE officer Jonathan Ross comes from around the passenger side to stand in front of the vehicle. Good appears to try to maneuver away from the officers and drive away.
Ross, who is recording on his cellphone with one hand and holding his gun in the other, then shoots at Good at least three times. He refers to her as a “******* *****” after shooting her in the head.
The handbook states that only one officer should be giving orders at a time to avoid confusion, and that officers should have a “professional, courteous demeanor” and a “positive attitude” on approach. Officers are instructed to give commands in a “professional, firm voice” and use “instructions that are simple, easy to understand and repeated as necessary.”
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Michel Moore, a former chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, explained in an interview with HuffPost why this early moment of the interaction made the scene unnecessarily tense.
“The use of profanity in that charged situation lacks professionalism, and it heightens and escalates tensions,” Moore said. “You don’t walk up and say, ‘Mother, may I?’ or ‘Would you please mind stopping?’ That’s not reasonable. But going all the way to ‘get the **** out of the car’ — well, you’ve missed all the other steps of establishing what we call a command presence.”
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Not waiting for Good to comply with this order, one officer reaches inside the driver’s side window. Though this is not explicitly prohibited in the handbook, it states that “ICE policy requires officers to adjust force based on evolving circumstances and to consider environmental and tactical factors.”
“There are a number of really grave and serious tactical and legal mistakes that the officers on the scene made to ultimately precipitate a use of force that was not necessary, and not proportional to the nature of the threat,” said Matthew Barge, a senior fellow for the Policing Project at NYU School of Law. He has spent 18 years probing police and public safety issues and has reviewed thousands of hours of footage of deadly or excessive force. Officers approached Good in a way that was “completely uncoordinated and really chaotic,” Barge said.
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At the same time, Ross was filming the encounter with Good and her wife with his cellphone. The handbook does not explicitly prohibit handling a phone while holding a gun, but it does emphasize control, awareness and safe handling of a weapon when in close contact with others.
Stepping into the path of a vehicle is widely recognized by law enforcement as a high-risk tactic. One ICE officer previously told HuffPost they were trained to consider vehicles to be deadly weapons and, following the Good shooting, they were told by officials not to stand in front of cars and to be “cautious around them.” A senior Department of Homeland Security official told NBC News that ICE officers are trained never to approach a vehicle from the front and instead, approach in a “tactical L” 90-degree angle to prevent injury.
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“Deadly force is not authorized solely to prevent the escape of a fleeing suspect,” the handbook states. “Deadly force against a fleeing subject is only authorized if there is probable cause to believe that the escape of the suspect would pose an imminent danger of death or serious bodily injury to the officer or another person.”
“The use of excessive force by ICE employees is strictly prohibited,” the handbook warns.
The Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment about apparent violations of ICE’s use-of-force policy.
Even if officers had probable cause to believe Good was interfering with their operations and she attempted to flee from them as they approached her car, Moore said most law enforcement officers would advise letting her leave and then investigating later. “You don’t shoot at a moving vehicle,” he said. “You get away from it.”
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Even when considering that a vehicle could be seen as a potentially deadly weapon, protocol suggests Ross may have moved too quickly when deciding to fire his gun.
ICE operates under a “use of force continuum,” the handbook says. Agents must weigh the “totality of the circumstances” and first consider using “intermediate force” to deescalate if reasonable. (Last year, the Supreme Court used the same phrase — “totality of the circumstances” — when explaining what investigators must look at when evaluating whether an officer who used deadly force acted reasonably.)
Deescalation tactics named in the handbook include giving verbal warnings or establishing containment zones, like blocking off a street so a subject in a vehicle cannot flee. Even using chemical agents to deter a subject can be considered reasonable force, according to the manual.
But so far, the administration has slow-walked a criminal investigation of the agents involved in killing Good, after Trump officials initially slandered her as a “domestic terrorist.” The FBI cut out state and local officials from the investigation. And the path to prosecution for federal agents is narrow.
The handbook warns that agents will face consequences for violating ICE policy. Ross seems to have faced only one consequence since the shooting on Jan. 7: A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told HuffPost last week that he had been put on leave.
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Her Mom Never Came Home from Bingo, Then She Got a Call from a Stranger. There’d Been a Crash — and a Cop Was Involved
Milagros Ortiz’s three children are demanding the officer be held accountable for the crash that resulted in her death
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- Milagros Ortiz died at Orlando Regional Medical Center on Jan. 19, a day after the SUV she was a passenger in was struck by an Orlando police vehicle
- The police vehicle “was at fault for the collision due to failure to yield right of way,” according to a preliminary crash report prepared by Orlando police
- The police department says it has launched an internal investigation of the crash and that a traffic homicide investigation is also underway
A 92-year-old woman on her way home from her weekly bingo night in Orlando was struck by a police cruiser that drove through a red light earlier this month.
The next day, Jan. 19, Milagros Ortiz died at Orlando Regional Medical Center. Now, her three children are demanding the officer who was behind the wheel, and listed as “at fault” in a preliminary crash report, be held accountable.
“He needs to know that because of his carelessness, recklessness, negligence, he took someone that still had maybe four or five years of life in her,” daughter Judy Santiago, 64, tells PEOPLE.
Ortiz wasn’t your typical 92 year old, according to her children.
“She was lively,” says her other daughter Evelyn Alicea, 71. “She was the life of the party.”
She loved music, dancing and jigsaw puzzles, all of which her children believe kept her mind sharp. “She would balance her ledger, adding, subtracting without a calculator,” Alicea adds.
Ortiz would meet each Saturday night with a group of 40 to 50 men and women — whom she affectionately referred to as “la familia binguera,” or the bingo family — to eat and play bingo together.
“She loved going, and she didn’t care if she wasn’t feeling good,” says Alicea, who lived with Ortiz. “Because that’s what would motivate her and build up her spirits, keep her going.”
The siblings say it was in the wake of this tragedy that they fully understood just how tight-knit the group was — and what their mother meant to the other members. “They were all supportive,” Alicea says. “They all were extremely sad that this happened to mom.”
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Ortiz was headed home from a bingo night in the early hours of Sunday, Jan. 18, in a Jeep Patriot driven by her neighbor. As the pair headed south on S. Semoran Blvd., the Jeep was struck by a marked police vehicle at 1:48 a.m. local time, according to the Orlando Police Department’s preliminary crash report, which was obtained by PEOPLE.
A witness, whose vehicle was stopped at a red light next to the police vehicle, said the light “was taking a long time to switch” and the emergency lights were activated on the police vehicle before it went through the intersection. However, the report stated, the emergency lights were turned off when the vehicle passed through.
The police vehicle then collided with the Jeep that Ortiz was traveling in, which had a green light.
“Video of the crash corroborated” the witness statement, according to the report, which stated the police vehicle “was at fault for the collision due to failure to yield right of way.”
The driver of the police vehicle is listed in the report as Andrew McKuhen, 28. He did not reply to PEOPLE’s requests for comment.
The Orlando Police Department says it has initiated an internal investigation.
In addition to the preliminary crash investigation that was conducted at the scene, the department tells PEOPLE that a comprehensive traffic homicide investigation is underway.
Alicea says it was not uncommon for her mother to get home late so she would leave a light on for her in the home they shared.
She was just trying to track her mom’s location when she got a call from a stranger. The man told her that her mother had been in a crash and Ortiz says she could hear her mother in the background complaining of chest pains.
“When I got that call and to find out it was a police officer that actually ran a red light, had no lights and sirens, that’s what’s really struck the hardest,” Alicea says. “That’s why this has been so hard. They’re supposed to serve and protect the community.”
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The sisters rushed to be by their mother’s side at the hospital and were able to speak with her before she underwent surgery. Ortiz fractured multiple vertebrae and also sustained injuries to her ribs, torso and liver as a result of the crash, according to her family.
Ortiz, who was predeceased by her daughter Nancy and husband, Antonio Ortiz, also has a son by the same name who traveled from Ohio to see her last week as soon as he learned she had been injured.
She is also survived by 10 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; and a third great-great grandchild, (Alicea’s first great-grandchild), on the way.
“She was going to go with me in March to meet my great-grand and her great-great-grand to welcome her into the world,” Alicea says. “But of course, she didn’t get that chance.”
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