Let the punishment fit
the crime: A charity auction for a chance to take just one good whack at
this fucking pig w/ a baseball bat. It would only be fair that he take one whack to each place where his entirely innocent victim got one from him. Well, just for pain, suffering & PUNISHMENT, two whacks to each place he hit his entirely innocent victim.
MARTINEZ, Calif. —
A Walnut Creek police officer pleaded no contest in a Martinez courtroom Monday afternoon to charges that he donned a mask and beat a woman with a baseball bat in Richmond last month.
Gregory Thompson, a 54-year-old Martinez resident and 30-year Walnut Creek police veteran, entered the no contest pleas in Contra Costa County Superior Court to charges of felony assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury, felony vandalism and being armed in the commission of the crimes.
Dressed in a suit and tie, Thompson appeared out of custody next to his attorney in court Monday, weeks after bailing out of county jail in Richmond following his Aug. 16 arrest.
Thompson refused to answer questions from reporters outside the courtroom Monday morning and left in a waiting car.
Deputy District Attorney Barry Grove said prosecutors will ask for a one-year county jail sentence for Thompson but that he could face up to five years in state prison. His sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 10.
Grove said Thompson went to his father's vacant home on Clinton Avenue in Richmond in the early morning hours of Aug. 16, knowing that the house had been burglarized recently, according to Grove.
When he saw an unknown woman walking near the home, he believed she was an intruder, donned a ski mask and "he took the law into his own hands and beat her with a baseball bat," Grove said.
The woman's car had run out of gas and she was walking in the area when Thompson attacked, prosecutors said.
Richmond police received several reports around 2 a.m. on Aug. 16 of a woman screaming and a man with a bat in the 4000 block of Clinton Avenue.
As officers arrived on the scene, witnesses pointed out Thompson, who was sitting nearby in his parked car. He wasn't wearing his police uniform or in a patrol car at the time, police said.
Officers approached the suspect and noticed a mask lying on the car's floorboard. A search of the car turned up a baseball bat, two guns and zip ties, police said.
The victim, who had been hiding in the bushes until police arrived, was taken to a hospital for injuries suffered in the beating and is expected to recover.
Police last month were attempting to locate a second woman who was apparently wounded when she stepped in to try to stop the attack. An off-duty firefighter also witnessed part of the attack, according to Grove.
Thompson, who identified himself as a police officer, was arrested, taken to county jail and released on bail the following day.
Walnut Creek police have said Thompson was put on paid administrative leave soon after his arrest and that the department is conducting its own investigation.
He was working most recently as a patrol officer, according to Walnut Creek police Capt. Mark Perlite.
The Walnut Creek Police Department confirmed for KTVU that Thompson officially retired on Friday, three days before he was convicted.
When asked if Thompson will get to keep his full retiree and pension benefits from his 30 year career, since he retired days before he was convicted, a department spokesman told KTVU he didn't know the answer to that question.
A representative from CalPERS said they needed more time to gather information about Thompson's case in order to determine the status of his retirement and pension benefits.
We can only imagine the atrocities he committed against citizens when he was in uniform & driving a pigmobile. Pension? He should be forced to repay all the salary he's stolen from the people!
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