{"id":1159099,"date":"2022-09-01T11:34:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-01T16:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1159099"},"modified":"2022-09-02T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T16:34:00","slug":"congressional-candidate-says-man-threatened-to-set-him-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1159099","title":{"rendered":"Congressional candidate says man threatened to set him on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/09\/jrmar-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1159100\" \/>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c East Texas congressional candidate Jrmar Jefferson said he was threatened while he was pumping gas at Sam&#8217;s Club in Longview on Wednesday. Jefferson is a Democratic candidate in the race for U.S. House Texas District 1 against Republican Nathaniel Moran. According to our news partner KETK, Jefferson said a white man around 70 years old threatened him. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153He says he ought to hose me down with the gas pump making (a) gesture and set me on fire,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jefferson. He said he froze for a second and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to reach inside his car in case the man had a gun.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I told him, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHow could you treat another American like that?&#8217;\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jefferson. The candidate said he called the Longview Police Department, and they will be filing a report. Jefferson is also hoping to get access to the video footage at the gas station because the other man \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fled the scene.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153We cannot let that deter us. We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to keep registering voters,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Jefferson. Longview Police confirmed Jefferson filed a police report on Wednesday but would not speak to the contents of the report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONGVIEW \u00e2\u20ac\u201c East Texas congressional candidate Jrmar Jefferson said he was threatened while he was pumping gas at Sam&#8217;s Club in Longview on Wednesday. Jefferson is a Democratic candidate in the race for U.S. House Texas District 1 against Republican Nathaniel Moran. According to our news partner KETK, Jefferson said a white man around 70 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1159099\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Congressional candidate says man threatened to set him on fire<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1159104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/09\/jrmar-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Congressional candidate says man threatened to set him on fire","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1159099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 15:45:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2022\/09\/jrmar-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Congressional candidate says man threatened to set him on fire","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1159099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1159102,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1159099\/revisions\/1159102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1159104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1159099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1159099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1159099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}