{"id":55449,"date":"2020-06-02T01:58:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T06:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55449"},"modified":"2020-06-02T01:59:35","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T06:59:35","slug":"55449","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55449","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.3newsnow.com\/news\/local-news\/live-city-officials-hold-briefing-as-city-county-offices-shut-down\">Man won&#8217;t be charged in fatal Omaha protest shooting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) \u2014 The killing of James Scurlock has resonated with people across the Metro. The Douglas County Attorney\u2019s Office says the shooter was protecting himself.<\/p>\n<p>County Attorney Don Kleine said he made the decision by looking at the evidence, the interview of the shooter, and the videos of what happened.<\/p>\n<p>He says it\u2019s not based on emotions and what happened to George Floyd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShooter was defending himself when he shot Scurlock,\u201d Kleine said.<\/p>\n<p>Kleine said that the shooter was justified in shooting Scurlock at about midnight Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter was identified as Jacob Gardner, owner of the Hive Bar and Gatsby Bar.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors showed video of a scuffle involving Gardner\u2019s dad. Gardner backed up and showed a gun when two people jumped on him.<\/p>\n<p>He fired two shots but didn\u2019t hit anyone and then Scurlock jumped on his back. That\u2019s when Gardner said he was being choked and shot him once in the clavicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Gardner as we know now has said I did what I did to defend myself and we find that we can\u2019t disprove that from the evidence that we have,\u201d Kleine said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honestly feel that if Mr. Gardner\u2019s dad would\u2019ve kept his hands to himself the incident would\u2019ve never happened in the beginning,\u201d said James Scurlock II. \u201cOnce again I ask that we investigate this and I ask my people to stand by me strong but do it peacefully.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shooter has been released from police custody. They say witness statements and video do not indicate they were saying racial slurs.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Gardner did not have an active concealed carry permit but hasn\u2019t been charged with a crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man won&#8217;t be charged in fatal Omaha protest shooting OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) \u2014 The killing of James Scurlock has resonated with people across the Metro. The Douglas County Attorney\u2019s Office says the shooter was protecting himself. County Attorney Don Kleine said he made the decision by looking at the evidence, the interview of the shooter, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=55449\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-defense","category-slugs-for-thugs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55450,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55449\/revisions\/55450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}