Posted on 04/04/2022 9:55:36 AM PDT by algore
The widow and son of a black motorist shot in the head by a white state trooper during a traffic stop over a broken tail light will receive a settlement of nearly $5 million.
Julian Lewis, 60, was shot and killed by trooper Jacob Thompson, 28, in the countryside 60 miles south of Savannah, Georgia in August 2020.
After the state cop signaled Lewis to pull over and he failed to do so, Thompson rammed his car into a ditch.
When Lewis began driving out of the trench and toward the trooper, Thompson pulled the trigger.
The state of Georgia will pay the sizeable settlement of $4.8m to Lewis's family months after a grand jury decided not to indict Thompson for felony murder and aggravated assault.
Thompson was fired from the Georgia State Patrol a week after the killing.
He was arrested and taken to Screven County Jail before being charged.
But prosecutors failed to get an indictment from a grand jury, who in July 2021 decided not to bring proceedings forward.
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sounds like he drew the short straw to see which family member can make the family rich beyond its wildest dreams.
Maybe they would have rather had their son/dad/grandfather not be shot dead in a ditch. As quiet as it’s kept, there are still some real human beings in this world with real feelings.
“Maybe they would have rather had their son/dad/grandfather not be shot dead in a ditch. As quiet as it’s kept, there are still some real human beings in this world with real feelings.”
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No one should be gunned down over a broken taillight.
Is this all there is to the story? Did it happen like this? If it did then the cop should have been indicted, and tried. Shooting someone over a broken tail light, that’s ridiculous and wrong.
This is the first I had heard about this story.
The fact that the cops refuse to release the camera footage seems to be wrong.
Exactly. There is the very real,
Ossi8blity that He didn’t stop, so,the cop tried,a pit maneuver to,get him to stop, and then the fella,tried to ram the officer, trying gto use his car as a weapon
but the msm Wil, play it,up that the man was shot for nothing more serious than a broken tail-light, and was shot just for “being black”.
You argue just like a God-hating commie.
Yup. Nothing less than the typical day as an LEO. Huntin’ down and shootin’ folks for no particular reason other than they happen to be...... Guess I don’t need to say it.
As easy as it is to get a Grand Jury indictment, there had to be a lot more to the case then the news story shares. Georgia just doesn’t want the story and publicity so is basically paying the family off.
If the head shot is in the face, then the guy was driving directly at the cop. Cop could either try to jump out of the way or shoot at the driver.
so if a cop signals for me to pull over, i don’t have to?
I thought you had to.
The cop was charged with felony murder and no-billed by the grand jury. I found another article where the cop claimed that after the pit maneuver Lewis “ turned his wheel and revved his engine” which made the cop feel in danger. The article also said the GBI found that Lewis’ car battery disconnected when he went into the ditch so it would have been impossible to rev the engine.
Supposedly there is dash cam video.
When Lewis began driving out of the trench and toward the trooper, Thompson pulled the trigger.
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I guess that’s why they didn’t indict the officer. How many people are unnecessarily dead because they were driving “at” an officer?
Officers many times and unnecessarily and deliberately place themselves in danger by standing in front of fleeing vehicles or reaching inside car windows, then fire their weapons in what they later say is “self-defense.”
Step aside. Arrest them later.
Sho’me da money!
> Shooting someone over a broken tail light, that’s ridiculous and wrong. <
I’m not pro-cop in general. But it looks like the guy was shot because he drove his car towards the trooper, and not because of a broken tail light.
For me the question becomes: Was the trooper’s life really in danger? If so, the shoot was good. But if the trooper could have easily moved out of the way, the shoot wasn’t good.
Depends on the state.
In my state it used to be considered felony attempt to elude, but today you can just give the cop a universal finger sign and they have to break it off.
I was beyond shocked a week ago when I saw 10 cop cars chasing some guy in a smoking mini cooper
Apparently they will still chase if you are white and shoot one of their coworkers in the head
OK, the question which needs to be answered: If the exact same situation happened with a white driver, would he be just as dead?
OK, the question which needs to be answered: If the exact same situation happened with a white driver, would he be just as dead?
This man was 60. He probably panicked after his car was forced into a ditch.
i ‘ve lived in several states and don’t think twice if a police signals me to pull over...
it would never occur to me to keep on driving.
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