You know things have gone off the rails when a Democratic candidate for attorney general — the top law enforcement officer in the state — is being accused of saying that “maybe if a few cops died,” it would change how police behave.
Yes, you read that right. That’s what Republican Virginia Delegate Carrie Coyner claims Jay Jones, the Democratic nominee for Virginia Attorney General, told her during a heated phone call back in 2020. And honestly, if even half of what she’s alleging is true, it’s beyond disturbing — it’s disqualifying.
Coyner says the remark came during an argument over qualified immunity, the legal protection that shields officers from being personally sued for doing their jobs — unless they violate someone’s clearly established rights. Jones, according to Coyner, wanted to strip it away. Coyner pushed back, warning that if officers had to stop and wonder whether defending themselves could bankrupt their families, more of them would die.
And that’s when, she says, Jones crossed a line.
“Maybe if a few of them died,” he allegedly said, “they would move on, not shooting people, not killing people.”
Let that sink in for a second.
🚨More disgusting, disqualifying comments from Jay Jones.
Jay is running to be Virginia’s “top cop” and apparently thinks it would be a good thing if police officers were killed.
Every minute that Abigail Spanberger, Ghazala Hashmi, Don Scott, and Virginia Democrats delay in… pic.twitter.com/2DLgmerjEI
— Virginia GOP (@VA_GOP) October 6, 2025
A man running to enforce the law supposedly shrugged at the idea of officers dying as some kind of twisted moral correction — as though dead cops would fix the system. Coyner says she was stunned, calling his comment “insane.” And that’s the word for it. Insane.
This isn’t some political spat over taxes or zoning laws. This is about a man seeking control over every law enforcement agency in Virginia — someone who, if Coyner’s account is accurate, once implied that police deaths might be a necessary sacrifice for progress.
Jones denies saying it, of course. But context matters. This isn’t an isolated accusation floating in the void. This is the same Jay Jones who, according to multiple reports, sent violent text messages in 2022 threatening to shoot a Republican colleague — former House Speaker Todd Gilbert — in the head and then urinate on his grave.
That’s not hyperbole. That’s what the texts said. Two bullets. To the head. And an act of desecration for good measure.
Jones later apologized, claiming that “reading back those words made me sick to my stomach.” Well, sure — most people would feel nauseated seeing their own violent fantasies in writing. But apologies only go so far when there’s a pattern forming.
And there is one.
Jones also reportedly leveraged community service hours from a reckless driving conviction into political work for his own campaign committee — a convenient way to check off a punishment box while building a voter database. This isn’t exactly the résumé most voters have in mind for an attorney general candidate.
Instead of taking accountability for his actions, it appears that my opponent submitted a letter to the Court stating that he performed 500 hours of ‘community service’ for his own PAC, which isn’t a charitable organization under state code, to dodge potential jail time.
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— Jason Miyares (@JasonMiyaresVA) October 1, 2025
It’s worth noting that Coyner isn’t backing down. When The Daily Caller reached out to confirm her story, her office replied that she “stands by her comments.”
Meanwhile, Jones has gone quiet. No statement on the police-death remark. No explanation beyond a recycled apology for the earlier threats. Just silence — and the sound of a campaign trying desperately to outrun its own words.
But voters remember things like this. They remember who stood with law enforcement and who treated police lives like pawns in a political experiment.
New: Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears statement on Jay Jones texts and Abigail Spanberger:
“It is not enough for Jay Jones to drop out of the race,” said Earle-Sears, “Let me be clear: Spanberger’s continuing support for Jay Jones is also disqualifying her for office. ‘Let… pic.twitter.com/ESbqIr1WMq
— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) October 6, 2025
And maybe that’s what’s really at stake here: not just another election, but a question of who actually believes in law and order — and who’s willing to look the other way when their own side crosses a moral line so bright it’s blinding.
Because if saying “maybe if a few of them died” isn’t enough to disqualify you from being attorney general, then what is?
