Bond Set for White Cop Who Allegedly Shot Daughter's Black Boyfriend

[RandySF]

Shannon Kepler's family is standing resolutely behind him after he allegedly shot and killed Jeremey Lake, the black 19 year old who daughter Lisa Kepler met at a homeless shelter after the Kepler's kicked her out of their home. Kepler, an off-duty cop, tracked the couple down outside Lake's home and confronted his daughter. He shot and killed Lake as he was trying to introduce himself. "There was no argument," said Lisa Kepler. "I walked away and Jeremey introduced himself and my dad shot him."

Kepler's attorney seems to mix victim-blaming and unreconstructed racism in his defense of his client.

In a statement, Richard O'Carroll, said there was no basis for the charge since there was "not one credible eyewitness to this event" and claimed Kepler was trying "to protect his daughter, who preferred to live in a high crime area than live in a home with rules prohibiting her from bringing men home at night, some of whom even broke into the Kepler home."

A judge today set Kepler's bond at $825,000.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bond-set-for-white-cop-who-allegedly-shot-down-daughters-black-boyfriend

[darkangel218]

1. I hope he rots in prison. nt

[JJChambers]

2. Prison?! Oklahoma is still a death penalty state, right? Hang him high.

This POS needs to be executed. HATE CRIME

[darkangel218]

3. I dont support the death penalty.

Besides, it would be an easy way out. Convict him to life, and let him suffer and contemplate what he has done.

[JJChambers]

5. I do :)

The ONLY reason to be opposed to the death penalty is the possibility of executing an innocent. In this case, there is no mystery. There is no question of guilt. There is no chance he isn't the one who executed this young man.

Hang him high. Put him to death.

[Louisiana1976]

7. I agree. This crime is heinous enough to merit death.

[Logical]

9. Yes, lets be like other countries who support it. You probably don't belong here. nt

[JJChambers]

12. Why not?

My position is shared by roughly half our party.

[AverageJoe90]

14. That's pretty harsh, TBH.

I'm not exactly gung-ho about the death penalty, either, but it'd be less problematic than just letting the guy go, IMHO.

[Logical]

15. Good for us those are not our only choices. nt

[moriah]

11. Or maybe, just maybe, wanting society to be better than the murderers it must deal with?

Incarceration for life serves every appropriate societal need. The death penalty does nothing to discourage future crimes in others. Its only purpose is vengeance.

[avebury]

4. This is Oklahoma, one of the execution capitals

of the US. If they could prove premeditation, perhaps they will go for the death penalty.

[Cal Carpenter]

6. "A high crime area" where assholes like this guy murder innocent guys with guns

:brainexplodes:

Sigh.

[book_worm]

8. Let's see the father feared for his daughter living in a 'high crime area' rather than at home

where it would be nice and safe and yet he shoots and kills another man--because of his skin color. Such high morals!

[gollygee]

10. If he was so worried about her not living in a high crime area

one would think he wouldn't kick her out, causing her to need to live in a homeless shelter.

[AverageJoe90]

13. Well, at least he won't be likely to get enough money to bail him out.

Of course, I'd prefer no bail at all, but I'll take it. Hopefully they put this scumbag in jail for a long time to come.....