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Cowardly: District attorney:Re that 'quasi peaceful protester (sic cubed) and that cowardly DA, someone should take them out . . .
The rioter who was shot had repeatedly broken windows at the bar and other businesses in the area.
The incident prompted a wave of further "protests," particularly after Donald Kleine, the Douglas County attorney, determined that Gardner had acted in self-defense and declined to bring charges.
"A week later, Kleine said in a statement that after hearing from local residents and elected officials he would welcome an outside review 'in this rare instance.' He added, 'I made a decision and I would not change that decision based on everything I know today,'" (snip)
Douglas County District Court Judge Shelly Stratman then appointed a special council, Fredrick Franklin, an assistant U.S. attorney in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Omaha, to handle the case, though they said they expected the same outcome.
Instead, Franklin bowed to pressure and dug up evidence and came up with charges.
"The manslaughter charge, he said, is related to Scurlock's death; the attempted assault charge resulted from the second warning shot Gardner fired; the charge of making terrorist threats is linked to 'a verbal confrontation' that Gardner had with Scurlock, Franklin continued," Yahoo reports.
On Friday, a judge signed off on an arrest warrant for Gardner.
A GoFundMe fundraiser to raise money for his defense was deleted by the platform.
Gardner was allegedly planning to turn himself in to the police on Monday. His family and friends believed that his bail was expected to be one million dollars. xplains.
Comment: Previously: Omaha Bar owner shot protester who was assaulting him, won't face charges