JAKE Gardner was attacked on May 30 by rioters who were smashing his bar in Omaha, according to news accounts and video evidence. He was knocked to the ground, got in a scuffle with one looter, 22-year-old James Scurlock, as he was trying to get up, and the shot Scurlock. He was cleared of charges by the Omaha prosecutor, who was then pressured to turn the case over to a special federal attorney. Gardner, an Iraq War veteran, reportedly ended his life while awaiting arrest on manslaughter charges. (It is possible it was not suicide.) Thousands of people had labeled him a “white supremacist.”

Preventing people from defending themselves is a form of murder.

Update:

According to Gateway Pundit, Gardner had been harassed for years, apparently simply for supporting Trump and speaking out against transgender bathrooms after a woman was assaulted by a man (or “trans woman”) in one of his bar’s restrooms. Few apparently stood up to defend him:

His friends are now wondering if Gardner would still be alive today if more people had the courage to publicly support him as his name was being dragged through the mud by the left, both following the shooting and in the years of harassment prior to the fatal incident.

The harassment campaign against Gardner did not begin with the rioter that he shot in self-defense, but it may have been the reason that the mob was at his bar smashing his windows in the first place. For years, the far-left in Omaha has been targeting Gardner for supporting President Donald Trump and for building a third, unisex, bathroom in his bar for transgender customers to use.

Garner was a Marine and veteran of deployments to Iraq and Haiti. He described himself as a libertarian, but voted for President Donald Trump in 2016 and volunteered for his campaign in three states. By all accounts of friends and acquaintances that the Gateway Pundit has spoke to, he was a nice guy who cared very deeply about the world around him.

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