White bar owner charged with killing Black protester in Omaha kills himself

[CatWoman]

Jake Gardner, the white bar owner who was charged last week in the shooting death of a 22-year-old Black man during George Floyd protests in May, has killed himself.

The 38-year-old shot himself after police in Hillsboro, Oregon, responded to a call about a suicidal person, authorities speaking anonymously told the Omaha World Herald.

“At about 12:20 p.m., Hillsboro Police Department officers responded to the 300 block of Southeast Ninth Avenue after a body was found outside a medical clinic,” Hillsboro police said in a statement obtained by KETV-TV. “They discovered 38-year-old Jacob Gardner of Omaha, Nebraska, dead.”

Gardner had owned the Hive Bar in Omaha, and he shot James Scurlock after a scuffle during protests in May, five days after the death of George Floyd in police custody. Gardner had been charged last week with attempted first-degree assault, weapon use, making terroristic threats and manslaughter but had yet to turn himself in.


https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-jake-gardner-shot-suicide-oregon-charged-killing-james-scurlock-20200921-fp3jc23shrcmth25jfgdmxw2eu-story.html?fbclid=IwAR3Ori2DTh6JULkNVBuInbRu7GC2kSsX3VT5mUA-HgNCne6f7O-8atUdSFo

[DaisyTom]

1. I'm not going to cry about it.

[marble falls]

2. So now the morons have a martyr. Who's getting the blame: BLA. antifa, liberals, socialists, ...

anachists, Democrats ......... ?

[Demonaut]

3. a trump suicide

directly or indirectly

[Crunchy Frog]

4. Why was he alive in the first place?

[Loki Liesmith]

7. Same reason you are, I imagine.

[USALiberal]

8. What does that mean?? Nt

[Loki Liesmith]

9. Apparently vigilantism is cool now

[Crunchy Frog]

13. It means that I think he wouldn't be if he were black and his victim white.

No I am not advocating vigilantism. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[vercetti2021]

5. Enjoy hell

Satan needs new toys to play with

[Loki Liesmith]

10. Ghoulish

[dreamland]

11. One less vote for the chief maggot.

[Tarc]

12. Always good when the trash takes itself out

[Nay]

14. He was charged with those crimes "but had yet to turn himself in"? So, white MAGAts

are left free to turn themselves in when they feel like it? Unlike others, who are picked up (and/or murdered) by the cops for shit like selling a cigarette on the street corner? Jaywalking? Looking at a gun for sale at Walmart? Sitting in your car waiting for somebody?

[Baitball Blogger]

15. +1

I imagine he committed suicide because his world isn't the one he thought it was. Can't kill a black man and get away with it? Well, shit. Hold my beer.