Posted on 09/24/2014 8:22:27 AM PDT by Altariel
A Walnut Creek police officer who beat a woman with a baseball bat believing he was defending a vacant Richmond house owned by his father entered pleas to two felonies and an enhancement at his arraignment Monday.
Gregory Thompson, out of custody and wearing a light-brown suit, pleaded no contest to felony assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury and felony vandalism, and admitted to a firearm enhancement. After the hearing, Thompson, 53, raced from the courthouse with a phone held against his ear and got into a waiting vehicle without responding to any questions.
****
"We can prove he went down there because people had been breaking into his father's vacant house," Grove said. "He found a woman on the street. It appears he in some way believed that she was attempting to break into the house and seek shelter, and with a ski mask and gloves, he beat her with a baseball bat."
The prosecutor said the woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries, adding that investigators checked the woman's car and confirmed it was out of gas.
Walnut Creek police Capt. Mark Perlite said Thompson had been placed on paid administrative leave. Grove said the felonies and the firearm enhancement would prohibit Thompson from resuming his law enforcement career.
Grove said Thompson can eventually return to court and ask the judge to reduce his felonies to misdemeanors. Thompson is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 10.
(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...
Wear a magical government costume?
Don a mask and gloves and claim you were “defending” your family’s property from a woman who committed the crime of running out of gas in the middle of the night.
(JBT ping)
Wearing a mask to protect his father's property? Seems just a little suspicious to me.
And gloves-—he didn’t want to leave evidence of his crime.
The only reason her injuries *weren’t* life threatening is because he was stopped.
BTW, this is NOT about Little House on the Prairie Walnut Grove in MN.
Who do you suppose has confused Walnut Creek, CA with Walnut Grove, MN???
Well, both places known for their walnuts.
Lots of cops believe they have the right to be jury and executioner. A deputy sheriff here in Houston is on video kicking a perp in the face after he had tazed him. He kicked him several times. His story is that he kicked the guy in the arm. Yeah, right.
Just the 95% making the 5% look bad.
“Just the 95% making the 5% look bad.”
—
Time for you guys to come up with some new cop jokes-—this one is getting old,really old.
.
“Grove said the felonies and the firearm enhancement would prohibit Thompson from resuming his law enforcement career.”
Thank God for that. Now toss his ass in the slammer for the next 20 years. He’s also ripe for a civil suit to strip him of every nickel of his assets including his pension.
What’s getting even older is the behavior of cops these days. Change that and the jokes will go away.
L
Who gives a blank about the rest of this guy's life. Just goes to show the disgusting, incestuous relationship between DAs and Cops. A regular person who dons a ski mask and beats a woman with a bat would have the DA screaming fire and brimstone.
How long do you suppose he’ll stay on “paid administrative leave” ? Until he gets out of prison?
Prison?
That’s only for mundanes who commit crimes; mundanes who wouldn’t ask judges to reduce felonies to misdemeanors.
****
“Grove said Thompson can eventually return to court and ask the judge to reduce his felonies to misdemeanors. Thompson is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 10.”
Knights of the Realm: They have privileges mundanes don’t.
Then it has to be about the Waltons?
” “Just the 95% making the 5% look bad.”
—
Time for you guys to come up with some
new cop jokes-—this one is getting
old.”
It isn’t a joke, it is what LE has become. When cops shelter the bad apples, don’t be surprised when you share their reputation.
That may be his story, but this defence attorney can't actually prove it, and the prosececutor can point that out....
...oh! my mistake (It's good to be an offiser of the lore)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.