GA TROOPER HELD WITHOUT BAIL

by Bob Walsh

Jacob Gordon Thompson, 27, was a Georgia State Trooper.  On August 15 he used a PIT maneuver on a car fleeing a routine traffic issue - a broken tail light.  The car went into a ditch.  Thompson asserts that the driver, Julian Edward Roosevelt Lewis, 60, was attempted to get the car out of the ditch and run down the officer so the officer shot and killed him.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation arrested Thompson a week later on a charge of felony murder and aggravated assault.

As you might expect Thompson is White and Lewis is Black. 

Screven County Chief Judge F. Gates Peed ruled three days ago that Thompson will be held in custody and will not be granted bail.