Posted on 09/20/2020 3:24:12 PM PDT by Hojczyk
A Nebraska bar owner that killed a rioter who was attacking him and his business has committed suicide, a friend of Jake Gardner has confirmed to The Gateway Pundit. The bar owner, Jake Gardner, was indicted by a grand jury on counts of manslaughter, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, attempted first-degree assault and making terrorist threats after intense political pressure was placed on the city. The district attorney had originally ruled it was self defense.
On May 30, the 38-year-old confronted a group of rioters outside one of the bars he owns in Omaha and was knocked to the ground.
“From there, he fired two warning shots and tried to get to his feet, prosecutors said. As he did, Gardner got into a fight with one man, James Scurlock, 22. The two scuffled before Gardner fired a shot that killed him,” Yahoo News reports.
Douglas County District Court Judge Shelly Stratman then appointed a special council, Fredrick Franklin, an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Omaha, to handle the case, though they said they expected the same outcome.
Instead, Franklin bowed to pressure and dug up evidence and came up with charges.
“The manslaughter charge, he said, is related to Scurlock’s death; the attempted assault charge resulted from the second warning shot Gardner fired; the charge of making terrorist threats is linked to ‘a verbal confrontation’ that Gardner had with Scurlock, Franklin continued,” Yahoo reports.
On Friday, a judge signed off on an arrest warrant for Gardner.
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So will the BLM/ANTIFA mob have a little celebratory burning and looting?
Ditto that!
I know. What a nightmare.
But he would have gotten a lot of funds towards a defense online and, well...it doesn’t matter now.
I feel terrible for him and his family.
Also, taking a life is not an easy thing I would imagine, even though he was in the right.
Not all people are the same when it comes to something like that.
I think it would mess with me bad..right or wrong.
RIP poor fella.
Chalk up another victim of the enemedia and their cohorts in the democrat party.
What a load of rubbish.
The DA has blood on his hands. His family needs to sue.
If he knew he was going to die then he should have gone to those pukes house and gone out in a blaze of glory.
I’m not judging him at all.
I can’t say what I would have done.
But this may have been one outcome for me.
Brutal event. So sad.
“Franklin bowed to pressure and dug up evidence and came up with charges.
“The manslaughter charge, he said, is related to Scurlock’s death; the attempted assault charge resulted from the second warning shot Gardner fired; the charge of making terrorist threats is linked to ‘a verbal confrontation’ that Gardner had with Scurlock, Franklin continued,” Yahoo reports.”
Antfi rubs their hands with glee.
I wonder if the reason he did himself in is because he knew that he was probably a dead man once he got to prison anyway? Given a stark choice between choosing your own ending, and the sort of ending that he thought he was likely to get from angry African American fellow inmates in prison...
At any other time he would not have done this, but Covid, the riots, evil everywhere and the feeling that there is no justice in the US anymore.....my heart breaks for him.
It’s sad...He knew a trial,money for lawyer,who knows the hassles his dad’s business would go through...In his mind,even if he won, his family and business would be destroyed by angry blacks for him getting off.
Very sad.
Dear God, how awful.
The really horrible thing is that the left, BLM, antifa and the enemedia will be cheering and dancing on his grave.
We simply can NEVER compromise with people who have only one goal: For us to be either dead or enslaved.
The DA and judge will go on like a leftist killing their own baby.
That was my very first thought, too.
I want to say things that would get me arrested, and I am 2000 miles from Omaha.
Am I a bad men if I hope justice is served upon the ‘grandchildren’ of the judge & prosecuter’ in this case?
That ‘might’ approach justice...
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