Shot in 1.6 seconds: Video raises questions about how trooper avoided charges in Black man's death
Julian Lewis didn’t pull over for the Georgia State Patrol cruiser flashing its blue lights behind him on a rural highway. He still didn’t stop after pointing a hand out the window and turning onto a darkened dirt road as the trooper sounded his siren.
Five minutes into a pursuit that began over a broken taillight, the 60-year-old Black man was dead — shot in the forehead by the white trooper who fired a single bullet mere seconds after forcing Lewis to crash into a ditch. Trooper Jake Thompson insisted he pulled the trigger as Lewis revved the engine of his Nissan Sentra and jerked his steering wheel as if trying to mow him down.
“I had to shoot this man,” Thompson can be heard telling a supervisor on video recorded by his dash-mounted camera at the shooting scene in rural Screven County, midway between Savannah and Augusta. “And I’m just scared.”
But new investigative details obtained by The Associated Press and the never-before-released dashcam video of the August 2020 shooting have raised fresh questions about how the trooper avoided prosecution with nothing more than a signed promise never to work in law enforcement again. Use-of-force experts who reviewed the footage for AP said the shooting appeared to be unjustified.
I'm all about an eye for an eye at this point. Let his family hunt him down like the feral pig he is.
The answer to hate and murder? You guessed it! More hate and murder. I get the feeling but this is a really bad take if honest.
Civilizations lived by this idea for millennia
Civilizations strived on slavery aswell.
Maybe it is what some want for society, but i for sure do not. It is the other side of them same coin that has trigger happy and violent cops gunming down people.
Maybe i don't get it because i am not american.
So you sympathize with slave owners and pigs. Gotcha
Branding cops as pigs is unfair toward those very intelligent and social animals.
If you think feeling the urge to kill anyone makes you a decent person you should think again.
Violence has it's use and i see situations where violence against the authorities is warranted but even then i will loathe those who revell in it. Like those people out for revenge. Understandable emotion, despicable act.