Earlier this year Jake Gardner, a 38 year old decorated former Marine (two tours in Iraq) was facing rioters outside of his businesses during the Black Lives Matter/Antifa “protests” when a conflict occurred. What happened depends on who you read.
A surveillance video from Gardner’s bars, played Monday at a press conference, shows a group of young people, including Scurlock, approaching Gardner.
Walking backward, Gardner lifts his shirt to show a handgun, then pulls it to his side and continues backing up. Two people from Scurlock’s group — a man and a woman — tackle Gardner, who ends up on his back in a puddle in the street.
He fires twice into the air — he characterized them as warning shots in an interview with Omaha police. The two people run away from him.
Four seconds after that, Scurlock rushes from the sidewalk and dives on Gardner. Kleine said Scurlock was on Gardner’s back and had his arm around the bar owner’s neck. Gardner could be heard on another bystander’s video hollering, “Get off me, get off me.”
His right arm pinned, Kleine said, Gardner switched the gun to his left hand and fired over his shoulder. The bullet hit Scurlock in the shoulder-neck area, killing him.
CNN:
Two videos depict scenes from the incident. As described by prosecutors, Gardner’s father asked protesters outside the Gatsby bar to leave and pushed one. An unidentified man can be seen pushing the elder Gardner back, and the son intervened. Wayne claims Scurlock was not part of that group.
Jake Gardner had a handgun tucked in his waistband and lifted his shirt to show it during his confrontation with protesters, Kleine said of one video.
Two people jumped on Gardner’s back and he fired two warning shots, the county attorney said. Within moments, Scurlock jumped into the fray, according to authorities. Gardner told police he was put in a chokehold and he begged for the assailant to get off of him, Kleine told reporters.
“He thought he was in danger of losing his life or serious bodily injury,” said Kleine. That’s when Scurlock was shot in the clavicle and killed.
Before the glass stopped flying and without any facts celebrities were calling for Gardner to be punished.
Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine, after ‘breaking down videos and witness statements “with all of the homicide detectives”‘ determined the shooting to be in self defense.
There was more:
Dornan and Monaghan also revealed new evidence in the case, saying “Gardner was inside his bar on May 30 when he heard what he thought was a bullet coming through the front window of his business.” It was later identified as a pole that had shattered the glass. Dornan said people began climbing into Gardner’s bar, so he pulled the fire alarm, called police, and went out front. That’s where the altercation between his father and another protester began, and where Scurlock and Gardner’s struggle ensued.
On Twitter Carlos Osweda has a nice breakdown of the scuffle.
That inflamed BLM. They wanted blood and they were determined to get it.
Then BLM activists swarmed to the district attorney’s house in July, demanding justice for Scurlock as Kleine submitted to the whims of the mob.
“We still haven’t seen justice and he’s just free… Don Kleine lives in this neighborhood over here and we believe he’s not doing his job, so we’re trying to hold him accountable to do his job by charging Jake,” protester Annie Schenzel told KMTV.
Kleine knuckled under the pressure.
District Judge James Gleason then signed off on an arrest warrant affidavit on Friday spelled out by retired Omaha Police Detective Jeff Gassaway, one of the investigators who was involved in a fatal officer-involved shooting of a man outside a local shopping center in 2010.< Frederick Franklin, a veteran federal prosecutor who once served as president of the Midlands Bar Association of black attorneys, was named to lead the grand jury investigation.
Gardner became the proverbial ham sandwich.
Gardner was indicted by a grand jury on counts of manslaughter, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, attempted first-degree assault, and terrorist threats.
In an effort to raise funds for his defense, a friend of Gardner’s tried to set up a Gofundme page. Black Lives Matter and its supporters went to work immediately to cancel it:
On Tuesday, Justin informed Gardner of the GoFundMe account he had launched to aid his legal defense.
“It was just a drop in the bucket to what he was going to have to pay but any little amount helps and I felt obligated to help my friend,” Justin explained. Then Justin received backlash on social media and the page was taken down due to a flood of email complaints, raising just $100.
When Justin created a second page, that’s when he was personally attacked. A Black Lives Matter activist group contacted his place of employment with a scripted demand, claiming to black ball him and any of the companies he works for. Justin changed his screen name on Facebook after his LinkedIn profile was posted to several websites, including pictures of his son.
“Never have I been targeted so viciously,” Justin stated as he was forced to deactivate the second GoFundMe fundraiser, only raising $45.
A swarm of social media jockeys reported both campaigns to “Customer Happiness Agents,” alleging a “violation of Terms of Service” to the site’s administrators.
Black Lives Matter had determined that Gardner was guilty and condemned him. Due process was out the window. Truth be damned. Gardner, you see, was supposed to let his father get pounded. He was supposed to allow BLM to destroy his business, and he was supposed to allow Scurlock to choke him to death.
Then Megan Hunt, apparently a Nebraska state senator, tarred Gardner without a smidgen of proof:
“The indictment of Jake Gardner would never have happened without the community, the people, who stood up for justice and demanded action from city officials. Jake Gardner is gone, but the white supremacist attitudes that emboldened him are still with us today,” Hunt wrote.
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Of Gardner, his friend said
“I never once heard Jake even say a negative term or a mean thing to anyone much less any racial slur,” Justin urged. “I believe the media and people in Omaha tried to label him as a racist in an effort to excite a racial situation.”
Gardner’s biggest crime was being a Trump supporter. Kamala Harris wasn’t proud of him.
Gardner took his own life yesterday. He was offered up as an appeasement sacrifice. BLM killed him.
One of his last words to his friend were “what else could 2020 throw at me?”
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Except for liberals being foolish.
The right builds these politically useful little scenarios around a few details of any such event. Their guy is always the innocent victim, defending himself or his property or the Constitution from some stereotypical evil doer who is always allied with Democrats. The story is always presented in a manner calculated to raise the levels of fear and anger, because that’s where they get their political energy.
Here’s an alternate take on the situation. When you shoot and kill an unarmed person who might have been trying get the gun you’re randomly waving around and firing on a crowded sidewalk away from you, you can expect to be charged with something. Exactly what led up to that moment isn’t entirely clear, but the outcome was good for nobody. Maybe blows would have been exchanged. Without a gun to bolster somebody’s courage, maybe even that wouldn’t have happened. Instead, two people are dead because a gun was there.
We’ve suddenly got hoards of marginal nut cases who imagine their guns are somehow going to solve their problems. They’re idiots. They’re increasingly frightened of their own reflection. They’re a solution to nothing. They are the danger. Just look at any place where they’ve slipped the leash.
@Greg Another BLM apologist/foot soldier. What a useless crock of nonsense you peddle. You turn reality upside down.
The war you seem to want is coming to you. And average citizens will leave the corpses of your riotous buddies in the gutters, as a reaction to your violent confrontations and threats that you initiate. And you know what? That form of self-defense will make the country a better place.
Yeah, Greg, I can see what you support.
Cowards who won’t fight one person without a mob.
Your opponents will fight a mob with one person.
You want this to be a fight to the finish?
I’m okay with that. Let’s get it over with so we can get back to normal.
I’m tired of your side’s tantrums, and I’m not alone.
Self defense is not a vague concept. Self defense is a natural human condition. The people at risk here are not those defending themselves. It is the attackers. The attackers are playing stupid games and they will win stupid prizes.
I have a thousand or more prizes awaiting any one of these game players…
BLM aided by the liberals of Omaha. The richest Don hater (maybe only 2nd) has lived there for over 70 years.
@Greg: How can you possibly be this stupid?
Like the majority of average citizens, I’m smart enough to have quickly figured out what Donald Trump is. It’s interesting how often those who aren’t need to reassure themselves that everyone else is stupid.
Want to support the police? Get rid of the bad cops in their ranks. They’re the ones who have created this situation.
Want to lessen the divisive forces that are threatening to tear our country apart? Get rid of Donald Trump. He’s a damn fraud on every front, and he’s promoting every societal division so that he can politically exploit the negative energy. That’s how he operates. It’s what brings destructive pathology like that exhibited by Joe Anon out of the woodwork. A patriotic American would never do as Trump does, or say what he says. The negative results are entirely real; the grand accomplishments are purely imaginary.
@Greg:
Why did sundown joe put a lid on his campaign today?
Why did sundown joe lie yesterday when he said all outlets had confirmed the Atlantic fake story about besmirching the fallen troops?
Richard Nixon was not impeached.
I would happily see Donald Trump not impeached with an identical result. It would be like the lifting of a 4-year curse. People are going to come out of this episode looking around at the world and shaking their heads, wondering what happened.
You have the wrong President. It was obama that spied on a campaign, a transition and an administration.
Still with the IQ of a Crayola crayon.
Go back to bed zipperhead.
The lesson the left wants us all to learn here is the resistance is futile. Don’t defend yourself; don’t defend your business or home. Submit. Give up. If you dare resist, they will overwhelm us and every attempt at legal defense will be crushed.
They’ve forgotten something, an important detain; they haven’t gotten rid of the 2nd Amendment yet and they haven’t destroyed the will to survive. Poor Garner; no doubt past trauma weakened his will to persist. He would have prevailed, people would have supported and defended him to victory.
Here’s another alternative; DON’T attack innocent people. DON’T riot and try to loot businesses. DON’T become a violent useful idiot tool for the left.
@Greg:
So, are you saying that everyone should hold fire and wait for all the facts to be established before forming opinions and taking action? You mean… like in the Trayvon Martin case? Like, “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”? Like Eric Gardner? Like Freddie Gray? Like George Floyd? Like Kyle Rittenhouse? Like the McCloskey’s? You on the left NEVER wait for facts; you leap to leftist conclusions that serve the liberal needs.
It is in no way out of character for BLM to gang up and attack a person. In fact, it’s their MO. Scurlock thought he had blindsided Garner, just like the idiot that got his arm blown apart by Rittenhouse thought he had him disabled by the blow with a skateboard, and he got just what he deserved; DEATH. All these terrorist thugs that feel they have the Democrat cover to commit whatever violent acts they take a notion to commit deserve to come up against well armed and determined patriots that will not back down… and DIE.
That’s the conditions YOU have created. I pray to God it can be stopped before it spins out of control, but YOU’VE created it. The way to assure it doesn’t get worse if for the left to stop inciting it. That’s YOUR responsibility.
Garner was one person attacked by at least three people. THAT’S what guns are for; they are the “equalizer”. Because he had a business, he was attacked; nothing else. Those people felt they had the RIGHT to destroy his business and, because he objected, to KILL him.
Oh? Such as? What we have are spoiled, entitled crybabies who didn’t get their way so they throw a national tantrum, destroying the property and lives of others out of a false sense of entitlement. They are prodded forward by Democrats, pointing at their mindless destruction and blaming Trump. But, it is growing out of their control and beginning to attack their host, as every parasite is ultimately liable to do. Marxism is the goal and democracy is not Marxism.
Without your left wing terrorism, they wouldn’t exist, even in the warped version you try to foist. The left is the source of the violence and any response to the violence is YOUR responsibility.
Umm… guess again.
Yeah… no. We don’t react well to terrorism. We know that has been the goal all along; intimidate, threaten and terrorize to force people to submit to leftist oppression. The violence is not Trump’s fault; it is the reaction of immature crybabies who allow themselves to be used by the radical left. When weak parents submit to a tantrum-throwing brat, all they get is more tantrums and, ultimately, raise a social deviant. Sorry, your violent outbursts will not be rewarded.
Jake Gardner, in the end, was killed by the inaction-or incomitance-of the Trump Administration.
Trump’s fat-ass AG, Barr, should have prospected the Soros DA of Omaha for civil rights violations under the guise of authority via prosecutorial misconduct.
Gardner was justified, but left on the field as shit-bird Barr played the bag-pipes.
MAGA!!!!
@Joachim: How about cowardly leftists don’t prosecute innocent people? Wouldn’t that be a better place to start?
@Deplorable Me:
So Barr gets a pass. I’m used to the Democrats pissing on the Former USA, but I supported Trump in 2016 to DO SOMETING other than sit on Twitter all day.
@Joachim: A pass on WHAT? Is Barr supposed to get involved in every case in America where liberals are trampling individual right? This would have played out and Garner would have been cleared; no one could have anticipated his suicide. It would not have happened, though, without needless liberal harassment and support for political terrorism, which put his and his father’s life in jeopardy in the first place.
Maybe instead of looking for senseless things to blame on Trump and Republicans you should worry more about your party’s collapse and desperation.
@Joachim:
You clearly don’t have a firm grasp on the concept of Federalism. Law enforcement is typically a local issue, controlled by state law. I recommend you take some classes in American history, circa late 1700’s.
@Joe Anon: No, liberals don’t understand the concept of “following the Constitution”.
@Deplorable Me:
He should get involved in the IMPORTANT ONES. Now a Trump supporter, and veteran, is dead due to Barr rather playing his bag-pipes.
@Joe Anon:
You’re ignorance of the Constitution, because you have your nose so far up Trump’s a$$ is sad.
@Joachim: No, he’s dead because Democrats would rather protect terrorist rioters and looters than honest, law-abiding citizens and veterans. He’s dead because of the people YOU support.
@Joachim: Explain? What, exactly, are you saying?
Trump seems to be actually following the Constitution; Democrats, not so much.
Defend your baseless argument with facts, please, or is your head so far up Schumer/Pelosi/Cortez’s asses that you can’t even think for yourself?
@Joachim: Ah…I’ve seen these bots all over. The myth of the “I supported Trump in 2016, but won’t in 2020!”
You’re a bot/troll, and don’t exist. There is no “exodus” of Trump voters, but there is a walkaway movement of Dem/Leftwing voters. A desperate move indeed, pretending it to be the other way around.
You didn’t vote for Trump in 2016, and you probably have never voted in an American election…because you not American.
@Deplorable Me: When faced with the #walkaway movement, the Dems/Leftists are seeding comment sections with waves of trolls claiming the opposite.
You can smell the panic.
@Deplorable Me:
What HAS Barr done as AG?
He said in 2016 the Obama DOJ had enough evidence to prosecute Hillary Clinton. He said that over 4 years ago.
And he did what? Nothing. A great, big, fat, Bag-pipe playing nothing burger.
But you’re impressed. You’re the type who calls what is going on a “recovery” despite the FACT is it all done with MASSIVE GOVERNMENT DEFICIT SPENDING.
Pathetic.
@Nathan Blue: Isn’t it amazing that the left attributes the mentality of their own to Republicans. They think just telling people someone else thinks something will cause us to just think that same thing, too. Their herd mentality doesn’t affect people who actually think on their own.
@Joachim: Barr has stood up to the deep state and is investigating it and the corruption Obama left behind. Indeed, Obama’s DOJ completely ignored Hillary’s crimes, proving their corruption and how they had become a political tool of the Democrats.
He is addressing the domestic terrorism of BLM/ANTIFA, something Democrats deny even exists (though the smoldering remains of Democrat cities says otherwise).
I guess if Barr does not operate a gun running scheme to Mexican drug cartels like Holder did, we can call it a win, right?
@Joachim:
Well, as an attorney who passed two different state bar exams on the first try, I suspect I have a wee bit better understanding of the Constitution than you. But you’re welcome to show your cards and convince me otherwise.
And while I’m not particulary enamored of Trump personally, I’m not so foolish to think that shitshow the Democratic Party has turned into gives me a better choice. So you should probably speak to where your own nose is, since you clearly don’t know where mine is.
@Deplorable Me: So, I guess your answer is, “yes, “Bag-pipes” Barr gets a pass?
What HAS Barr done. Gone after a few low-hanging fruit for child-porn?
Barr hasn’t done anything remarkable. He said in in 2016 Obama’s DOJ had enough evidence to indict her over the 33,000 emails. Why doesn’t Barr indict her? She has terrorized this nation for 40 years and no man in DC has the balls to go after her.
And what about the criminal Debbie Wasserman Schultz? Did you forget about her computer hacking buddies from Pakistan? How come she gets a pass? And Susan Rice’s unmasking of American citizens? Remember when Hannity wouldn’t shut up about that?
Go ahead; keep making excuses for this dumpster-fire Administration. It is what you do best.
@Joe Anon: Really? Barr is the number one law enforcement of CIVIL RIGHTS and has the ability to protect Americans from CIVIL RIGHTS violations from criminal acts perpetrated by rouge government officials.
Sounds like your the ignorant one. Educate yourself.
@Joachim: There are quite a few corruption cases Barr’s DOJ are investigating at the same time. He has exposed the FISA abuses, the lies used to persecute Gen. Flynn. There is an EXTENSIVE investigation of the Mueller fraud and the massive corruption Obama installed in the FBI. He is investigating the IC fraud of hiding the Russian collusion by Hillary and Democrats while they tried to pin that on Trump and Republicans.
What’s wrong, did Barr cut into you kiddie porn and child sex trafficking endeavors and piss you off?
@Deplorable Me:
What’s wrong, did Barr cut into you kiddie porn and child sex trafficking endeavors and piss you off?
Thus why I am not longer a Republican. You people are as vile as he disgusting Democrats.
Ever wonder why the GOP is no longer a majority party? It’s because of sub-humans like “Deplorable Me”.
@Joachim: You were never a Republican. You’ve always been a troll.