Bond denied for Georgia trooper charged in fatal shooting

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Sep. 5, 2020
Updated: Sep. 5, 2020 5:21 p.m.



This jail booking photo from the Screven County Sheriff’s Office show former Georgia state trooper Jacob Thompson, who was charged with felony murder for fatally shooting a driver who refused to pull over for a broken tail light Aug. 7, 2020. Thompson was fired by the Georgia State Patrol and arrested a week after he shot 60-year-old Julian Lewis in the forehead after forcing Lewis’ car into a ditch. Thompson wrote in his incident report that he feared for his life and fired one shot when Lewis revved his engine and turned his steering wheel as if he wanted to ram the trooper. (Screven County Sheriff’s Office via APAP

SYLVANIA, Ga. (AP) — A Georgia judge has denied bond for a former Georgia State Patrol trooper accused of murder in the August shooting death of a 60-year-old Black man who refused to stop for a broken tail light.

Screven County Judge F. Gates Peed on Friday ruled that it "would be inappropriate” to grant bond at the moment for Jacob Gordon Thompson, given the facts of the case.

Thompson, who is white, briefly chased Julian Lewis on Aug. 7 before forcing Lewis’ car into a ditch and fatally shooting Lewis in the head.

Thompson wrote in his incident report that he feared for his life and fired one shot when Lewis revved his engine and turned his steering wheel as if he wanted to ram the trooper.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/article/Bond-denied-for-Georgia-trooper-charged-in-fatal-15545772.php

[Laelth]

1. Good. n/t

-Laelth

[The Magistrate]

2. I Do Not Believe Police Claims Of Being 'In Fear For My Life', Ma'am

That is simply something they are trained to say, like 'stop resisting', to make themselves look in the right.

[AkFemDem]

4. Considering the number of cops...

Who have been shot, run down and assaulted this year I sure do.

Fear alone isn’t enough though, it needs to be coupled with reasonable judgment- and that’s what was missing here.

[The Magistrate]

8. They Do Not Even Make the Top Ten Of Dangerous Jobs, Ma'am

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/27/the-10-most-dangerous-jobs-in-america-according-to-bls-data.html

Loggers, fishermen, airline cockpit crew, roofers, garbagemen, truckers, agricultural workers, 'high iron' workers, construction and landscape foremen, all face far greater risk of death on the job, as high as nearly 100 per hundred thousand for loggers, and from the middle ranges fifty per hundred thousand for roofers and twenty-five per hundred thousand for agricultural workers.

The most basic difference is police are encouraged to self-pity and resentment, and enjoy whining and whinging.



https://fee.org/articles/by-the-numbers-how-dangerous-is-it-to-be-a-cop/

Out of the 100 police deaths in 2013, 31 were shot, 11 were struck by a vehicle, 2 were stabbed, and 1 died in a "bomb-related incident." Other causes of death were: aircraft accident (1), automobile accident (28), motorcycle accident (4), falling (6), drowning (2), electrocution (1), and job-related illness (13).


Police deaths run about 10 per hundred thousand, and this includes auto accidents and suicides. Just plain men between fifteen and forty-five are victims of homicide at a rate of eighteen or nineteen per hundred thousand.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/187618/death-rate-from-homicide-in-the-us-by-gender-and-age-since-1950/

[louzke9]

10. COPS SHOULD FEAR...

THIS.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article245462455.html

[louzke9]

11. THE BLACK VICTIM...

Had a "REASONABLE" reason to flee...."death by cops"! But more importantly, Trump thinks cop don't need special training!

[The Wizard]

12. Another fall back

is his hand was near his waistband. Twenty years ago the "shiny object" was justification for murder.

[ret5hd]

3. Chasin' that ink got 'im in the klink.

[Stuart G]

5. The last thing this fellow believed would happen has happened. "Charged with Felony Murder"

Another idiot who was sure..."he could get away with it"....also ....."no bond"

[PerceptionManagement]

6. Why is a broken tailight worthy of capital punishment?

Did the cop have a a duty to escalate the events?

[Stuart G]

7. Good Question, but a jury will decide. But the man who was shot, had no gun and no real reason

(my opinion) to ........"escalate the events"

He claims the man was getting in the car to possibly attack the trooper, but there is no proof of that.
None. But this fellow may see a whole lot of jail time that he never expected. And I hope that the
jury finds him guilty, and the judge gives him a .....whole lot of jail time..

[marble falls]

13. Kinda got a Hitler Youth vibe going there, don't he?