Posted on 04/08/2023 1:28:48 PM PDT by grundle
Between December 2019 and February 2020, Armstead called 911 at least 23 times to report harassment by Thomas, the lawsuit says. Thomas broke in; threw stones and bricks through the family’s windows, at one point injuring Armstead’s pregnant wife; and threatened to burn their house down, the lawsuit says. Armstead had a restraining order against Thomas at the time
In March 2020, Thomas was arrested and released under the supervision of the Alameda County Probation Department, the lawsuit says. His probation officer was required to make contact with him every week to ensure he was complying with the terms of his release and the restraining order the Armsteads had against him, according to the lawsuit.
Instead, a probation officer met with Thomas on March 11, 2020, “directly in front of ... Armstead’s house in violation of the restraining order,” the lawsuit says. Despite the violation, Thomas’s probation was not revoked. Probation officers then did not have contact with Thomas for nearly eight weeks, despite requirements to be in touch with him on a weekly basis, according to the lawsuit.
In the meantime, Armstead had become “so desperate from the lack of intervention from law enforcement” that he and his family decided to sell their home and move from the neighborhood, the lawsuit says. On May 1, 2020, while he was cleaning the front yard of the home after it was sold, Thomas fatally shot him, the lawsuit says.
“The probation department and the police department, they doused this flame with gasoline, and it just continued to grow and grow until it was completely out of control, and this inferno consumed Miles’s family,” Adante Pointer, an attorney with Pointer & Buelna who is representing the family, told McClatchy News.
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Jamal Thomas
The victim was also black.
Lives Matter
Black hoodlums matter to her.
Right thing to let the authorities and legal system handle it.
every SINGLE victim in a democratic hell hole city needs to start suing like this!!!!! for TRILLIONS!
I enjoy watching some court proceedings on YT.
It is amazing and disheartening how much effort it takes to get people even arrested much less incarcerated. The DAs will take 15 charges, including battery, assault, assault on a police officer, robbery, larceny and offer 6 months SUSPENDED SENTENCE for “failure to obey a lawful order.”
THEN the court won’t even hold the perp on an outstanding arrest from the next county over.
It males us law-abiders look like complete chumps.
Correct, and that’s part of the message they are sending. It is intended to discourage sane, honest people and encourage whacked-out criminals. They do, in fact, laugh at us. And for good reason.
Repeat violent felons are just doing their masters’ work, so why should they be penalized? How else will the communists destroy the US and have the masses demanding slavery in exchange for a little safety?
How disappointing.
I was hoping to read that Armstead fatally shot Thomas.
Oakland’s Ernest T. Bass.
Terror->Fear->demands for more protection->more government control.
Taht is the ONLY thing any liberal cares aout.
After the third call to 911 that resulted in nothing, I’d have started looking for other ways to make the problem go away.
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