Posted on 09/22/2020 10:36:06 AM PDT by Starman417
Earlier this year Jake Gardner, a 38 year old decorated former Marine (two tours in Iraq) was facing rioters outside of his businesses during the Black Lives Matter/Antifa "protests" when a conflict occurred. What happened depends on who you read.
A surveillance video from Gardner’s bars, played Monday at a press conference, shows a group of young people, including Scurlock, approaching Gardner.CNN:Walking backward, Gardner lifts his shirt to show a handgun, then pulls it to his side and continues backing up. Two people from Scurlock’s group — a man and a woman — tackle Gardner, who ends up on his back in a puddle in the street.
He fires twice into the air — he characterized them as warning shots in an interview with Omaha police. The two people run away from him.
Four seconds after that, Scurlock rushes from the sidewalk and dives on Gardner. Kleine said Scurlock was on Gardner’s back and had his arm around the bar owner’s neck. Gardner could be heard on another bystander’s video hollering, “Get off me, get off me.”
His right arm pinned, Kleine said, Gardner switched the gun to his left hand and fired over his shoulder. The bullet hit Scurlock in the shoulder-neck area, killing him.
Two videos depict scenes from the incident. As described by prosecutors, Gardner's father asked protesters outside the Gatsby bar to leave and pushed one. An unidentified man can be seen pushing the elder Gardner back, and the son intervened. Wayne claims Scurlock was not part of that group.Before the glass stopped flying and without any facts celebrities were calling for Gardner to be punished.Jake Gardner had a handgun tucked in his waistband and lifted his shirt to show it during his confrontation with protesters, Kleine said of one video.
Two people jumped on Gardner's back and he fired two warning shots, the county attorney said. Within moments, Scurlock jumped into the fray, according to authorities. Gardner told police he was put in a chokehold and he begged for the assailant to get off of him, Kleine told reporters.
"He thought he was in danger of losing his life or serious bodily injury," said Kleine. That's when Scurlock was shot in the clavicle and killed.
Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine, after 'breaking down videos and witness statements “with all of the homicide detectives”' determined the shooting to be in self defense.
There was more:
Dornan and Monaghan also revealed new evidence in the case, saying "Gardner was inside his bar on May 30 when he heard what he thought was a bullet coming through the front window of his business." It was later identified as a pole that had shattered the glass. Dornan said people began climbing into Gardner's bar, so he pulled the fire alarm, called police, and went out front. That's where the altercation between his father and another protester began, and where Scurlock and Gardner's struggle ensued.On Twitter Carlos Osweda has a nice breakdown of the scuffle.
That inflamed BLM. They wanted blood and they were determined to get it.
Then BLM activists swarmed to the district attorney's house in July, demanding justice for Scurlock as Kleine submitted to the whims of the mob.Kleine knuckled under the pressure."We still haven't seen justice and he's just free... Don Kleine lives in this neighborhood over here and we believe he's not doing his job, so we're trying to hold him accountable to do his job by charging Jake," protester Annie Schenzel told KMTV.
District Judge James Gleason then signed off on an arrest warrant affidavit on Friday spelled out by retired Omaha Police Detective Jeff Gassaway, one of the investigators who was involved in a fatal officer-involved shooting of a man outside a local shopping center in 2010.<Gardner became the proverbial ham sandwich.Frederick Franklin, a veteran federal prosecutor who once served as president of the Midlands Bar Association of black attorneys, was named to lead the grand jury investigation.
(Excerpt) Read more at Floppingaces.net...
The DA and the judge have blood on their hands.
Shot to the clavicle! Scurlock goes down!
Thank you for posting this.
A relative put a post on her FB on Sunday, commenting on being so disgusted about those who were celebrating Jake Gardner’s suicide.
And some nutcase liberal actually had the balls to put up a comment that is too bad Jake was gone, because now there will be no “justice for James”, and Jake would likely be a martyr for the “other side” (meaning our side).
The guy who led the grand jury is doing a press conference today, I suspect to further malign Jake.
May he rest in peace, and prayers for everyone who knew and loved him.
It was the DA that killed him just as sure as if he had pulled the trigger.
Nebraska?
Good. Another one goes public for the list...
The special prosecutor (who headed up the grand jury investigation). He did a press conference, where he shared additional “evidence” that led to the indictment of Jake Gardner.
https://www.ketv.com/article/thats-what-hate-produces-special-prosecutor-reacts-to-jake-gardners-suicide-reveals-more-evidence/34128662
Our local DA is still saying he believes it was justifiable self-defense.
The special prosecutor was able to (1) include POTUS in the blame (2) make Gardner appear to be guilty, since he was a Trump supporter and not a BLM supporter (3) determine that Gardner’s mindset was a determination to kill a looter.
The actual evidence does not support any of this.
This is SO WRONG. If this can happen here, it can happen anywhere.
As does GoFundMe.
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