HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A Harris County deputy and her husband are in custody after a grand jury indicted them for murder.
Deputy Chauna Thompson and her husband, Terry, face murder charges for the death of John Hernandez after a fight at Denny’s.
“We believe that this grand jury true bill is a reflection of our community’s belief that a crime occurred,” Harris County DA Kim Ogg said. “And that crime was murder and it was participated by Terry Thompson and his wife Deputy Chauna Thompson.”
The couple could face five years to life if convicted.
Deputy, husband indicted in death of John Hernandez – https://t.co/yzIEi7TuWa #KPRC2 pic.twitter.com/KbVV1wQqp2
— KPRC 2 Houston (@KPRC2) June 8, 2017
Hernandez, 24, was in a coma after an altercation with Terry Thompson on May 28 outside of a Denny’s in Sheldon.
During a press conference Thursday night, Hernandez’s family responded to the latest developments.
“We do not ask for the death penalty for the Thompson family,” said Wendy Maldonado, Hernandez’s aunt. “This family has a heart and we are filled with love and we are human, too. We’d rather them get life sentences.”
Deputy Chauna Thompson, husband Terry turn themselves in after being indicted in the death of John Hernandez https://t.co/bX3N0y7y7p #kprc2 pic.twitter.com/vCCXaak5RV
— KPRC 2 Houston (@KPRC2) June 9, 2017
Bond is set at $100,000 for both Terry and Chauna Thompson.
Scot Courtney, Terry Thompson’s attorney, told ABC13 that the charges were disappointing.
“I’m extremely disappointed in the indictment but more importantly, in the actual charge. I haven’t seen any evidence that shows Mr. Thompson intended to cause death,” Courtney said.
https://twitter.com/PoojaOnTV/status/1060380125508845569
https://twitter.com/abc13houston/status/1060326060888416256
Killing a man for urinating in public. Call the police, allow him to go to jail and pay a fine but he murdered him. Get your ass to prison. Convict wife Chauna too.
https://twitter.com/KPRC2Aaron/status/1059540473314979842
https://twitter.com/ABC13Miya/status/1059537558932201480
JUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Get your ass to prison!
https://twitter.com/abc13houston/status/1059534604380594178
https://twitter.com/JeffEhlingABC13/status/931178517974233088
https://twitter.com/KPRC2/status/873351523081781248
https://twitter.com/abc13houston/status/873427021472423937
https://twitter.com/Marvel/status/873351084302938112?
https://twitter.com/MarcACaputo/status/873284890644664321?
https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/873216335521525761?
https://twitter.com/MatthewACherry/status/873269238739369984?
https://twitter.com/ReignOfApril/status/873306081203818496?
It won’t work.
Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff
What people mean by “white male privilege” is a billionaire who claims he is a genius and should run country, then cries “I’m new at this.”
https://twitter.com/mattdpearce/status/873277313399406592?
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/873298895278944256?
After a public showing on May 25 in which Trump refused to endorse NATO’s collective defense clause and famously shoved the Montenegrin leader out of the way, leaders of the 29-member alliance retired to a closed-door dinner that multiple sources tell Foreign Policy left alliance leaders “appalled.”
Trump had two versions of prepared remarks for the dinner, one that took a traditional tack and one prepared by the more NATO-skeptic advisors, Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon. “He dumped both of them and improvised,” one source briefed on the dinner told FP.
During the dinner, Trump went off-script to criticize allies again for not spending enough on defense. (The United States is one of only five members that meets NATO members’ pledge to spend 2 percent of GDP on defense.)
[…]
“Oh, it was like a total shitshow,” said one source, who spoke on condition of anonymity as they weren’t authorized to discuss the closed-door dinner.
“The dinner was far worse than the speech,” said a former senior U.S. government official briefed on dinner. “It was a train wreck. It was awful.”
NATO headquarters declined to comment on the dinner. “This was a confidential dinner of allied leaders and we respect their confidence,” a NATO spokesperson said.
https://twitter.com/ForeignPolicy/status/873306253480656896?
Those that didn’t know what we had have FINALLY joined us that knew the fabulousness of 44.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/873310702395691008?
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/873332509697863681
They don’t think they’ll ever be convicted.
https://twitter.com/JoyAnnReid/status/871440121974984704?
See, folks! Told y’all, if it wasn’t for the concerned citizen recording the killing, these fuckers would have gotten away with cold bloodied murder.
https://twitter.com/abc13houston/status/873292099973677057
I don’t doubt it for a second. I read cops took her phone but thank God someone at the scene recorded otherwise, these killers would be walking around free & getting away with murder.
https://twitter.com/abc13houston/status/873317965449580548
https://twitter.com/kprcrobert/status/873259251246002178
Put his ass in the general population.
https://twitter.com/MattKHOU/status/873302389150945284
https://twitter.com/ForeignPolicy/status/873212596165517313
https://twitter.com/Crystal1Johnson/status/873293949388996608
https://twitter.com/Crystal1Johnson/status/873294362913914883
https://twitter.com/deray/status/873133369751744512
This is disgusting.
https://twitter.com/stltoday/status/872982358760148993
Stating the obvious, but so true.
SHAUN KING: Trump is scary, but his few remaining fans are even scarier
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Friday, June 9, 2017, 3:58 PM
The President currently sits at a miserable 34% approval rating — but how is the figure even that high?
From every single angle of the poll, Trump’s in trouble. A staggering 73% of the country approves of a special prosecutor to look into links between Russia and the Trump campaign, 68% of Americans say he’s not level headed and 64% of Americans say he doesn’t share their values.
For the first time, even the majority of white people without college degrees disapprove of Trump. Even his base is eroding.
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That’s why I feel compelled to publicly question the 34% of Americans who continue to say they approve of Donald Trump.
What exactly do you approve of? His presidency has been a complete mess. It’s not even officially his first summer on the job yet and expensive investigations with special prosecutors and bombshell testimony are already gripping the nation.
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My best guess is that you approve of him because he’s you think he’s good Christian man and you’re just relieved we no longer have a scary Muslim in the White House. My best guess is that you’re just glad that he’s white. My best guess is that you’re just glad he’s a man. My best guess is that you’re just glad he’s a Republican. My best guess is that you love that he seems to despise Muslims and immigrants just as much as you do.
Whatever the case, your willingness to still support Trump, in spite of all of the evidence making it clear that any decent person would abandon ship, tells us way more about you than it does him.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/king-trump-scary-remaining-fans-scarier-article-1.3234863
Welcome to Wakanda! #BlackPanther world premiere of the teaser trailer TONIGHT during Game 4! @MarvelStudios pic.twitter.com/CRli0AsSbF
— Lupita Nyong’o (@Lupita_Nyongo) June 9, 2017
Patiently waiting for the #BlackPanther trailer like pic.twitter.com/ZzbFfu9xcQ
— PragmaticObotsUnite (@PragObots) June 9, 2017
Couldn’t care less about the game tonight, but might end up watching just so I can see the #BlackPanther trailer.
— Dudette (@Dudette9t9) June 9, 2017
DA PHUQ?
A 41 y.o. Korean man adopted in the US at age 3 is being deported b/c his adoptive parents didnt get him citizenship https://t.co/JV1tdRmM28
— Liam Stack (@liamstack) October 29, 2016
(1/2) I was adopted by US couple as infant (from Japan), priority for them was naturalization for me….
— Arapaho415 (@arapaho415) October 29, 2016
(2/2) What will he do now? (Speaking for myself, I speak only English, no nothing about Japanese culture.)
— Arapaho415 (@arapaho415) October 29, 2016
(2/2) two sets of abusive parents & 2000 law that grants auto-citizenship to US adoptees (not retroactive though).
— Arapaho415 (@arapaho415) October 29, 2016
Horrible!
“Kids Are Quoting Trump To Bully Their Classmates And Teachers Don’t Know What To Do About It”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/kids-are-quoting-trump-to-bully-their-classmates?utm_term=.tb8pMvK1m#.je5JovrGA
Excerpt:
https://twitter.com/splcenter/status/872966483869028352
https://twitter.com/splcenter/status/872951382591930369
This spawn of Satan is destructive as hell.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/873219628025204738
Uh huh
Uh huh
but but but…it was gonna be CRIMINALS…remember?
The Trump administration has moved to reopen hundreds of deportation cases closed under Obama
Reuters
Mica Rosenberg and Reade Levinson, Reuters
(Reuters) – In September 2014, Gilberto Velasquez, a 38-year-old house painter from El Salvador, received life-changing news: The US government had decided to shelve its deportation action against him.
The move was part of a policy change initiated by then-President Barack Obama in 2011 to pull back from deporting immigrants who had formed deep ties in the United States and whom the government considered no threat to public safety. Instead, the administration would prioritize undocumented immigrants who had committed serious crimes.
Last month, things changed again for the painter, who has lived in the United States illegally since 2005 and has a US-born child. He received news that the government wanted to put his deportation case back on the court calendar, citing another shift in priorities, this time by President Donald Trump.
The Trump administration has moved to reopen the cases of hundreds of undocumented immigrants who, like Velasquez, had been given a reprieve from deportation, according to government data and court documents reviewed by Reuters and interviews with immigration lawyers.
Trump signaled in January that he planned to dramatically widen the net of undocumented immigrants targeted for deportation, but his administration has not publicized its efforts to reopen immigration cases.
https://twitter.com/abc13houston/status/873163900707119104
Just look at those two mugs. Why in the blazing hell did they kill that young man? What is wrong with these people?
They did it because they could, and they seemed to think that their being indicted for murder is “unfair.” I followed the link and watched the video of the incident. Although a female was screaming for Terry Thompson to release Hernandez, another guy there seemed to be engaged in trying to block whoever was filming the incident and saying repeatedly that Chauna Thompson is a deputy sheriff, as if that justified her husband choking the life out of Mr. Hernandez. Some people can say whatever they want to say in public, but I believe that when they’re out of public view, they do think the lives of some Americans are more important than the lives of others.
New polling shows Trump’s standing slipping to new lows
06/09/17 11:20 AM
By Steve Benen
Given some of the fundamentals of domestic current events – most notably the lowest unemployment rate in over a decade – it’s tempting to assume a new president would enjoy reasonably strong public support right now.
That’s clearly not the case with this new president.
McCaskill uses facts to slam Senate Republicans’ health care process
06/09/17 10:22 AM—UPDATED 06/09/17 10:26 AM
By Steve Benen
Many of us tuned in to watch yesterday’s Senate Intelligence Committee hearing with former FBI Director James Comey’s sworn testimony, but around the same time, there were a few fireworks in a lower-profile hearing in the same building.
HHS Secretary Tom Price testified yesterday before the Senate Finance Committee on his department’s budget, and not surprisingly, there was a fair amount of discussion of the Republican plans on health care policy. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) asked the committee’s chairman, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), whether the panel would hold any hearings on the GOP’s proposal.
The Utah Republican, apparently unsure how to respond, had an aide whisper a talking point in his ear. Hatch eventually told McCaskill that he doesn’t know if the committee would hold a hearing on the still-secret legislation, but Democrats had been invited to “give your ideas” about the issue.
McCaskill wasn’t having it.
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/873205200743477248
The Skinny
By Jim Nintzel @nintzel
U.S. Rep. Martha McSally told a group of bankers last week that if an election were held today, she would lose office.
Team McSally has been poo-pooing recent polls showing that more than half of the voters in her district disapprove of her job performance, while her approval has fallen down to the mid-30s, percentage-wise, and that she was losing to a generic Democrat by 7 percentage points.
But last week, in a private talk to the Arizona Bankers Association, McSally conceded that in the current political environment, she has some real challenges in next year’s election.
McSally complained that President Donald Trump and his tweets were creating troubling “distractions” and “it’s basically being taken out on me. Any Republican member of Congress, you are going down with the ship. And we’re going to hand the gavel to Pelosi in 2018, they only need 28 seats and the path to that gavel being handed over is through my seat. And right now, it doesn’t matter that it’s me, it doesn’t matter what I’ve done. I have an ‘R’ next to my name and right now, this environment would have me not prevail.”
“The environment has changed and some of it changed on January 20,” McSally told the crowd. “There’s just an element out there that’s just, like, so against the president. Like they just can’t see straight. And all of a sudden on January 20, I’m like his twin sister to them. And I’m, like, responsible for everything he does, and tweets and says. And they want me to be spending my time as a pundit. ‘I disagree with that. I agree with this.’ I have a job in the legislature!”
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In her talk, McSally acknowledged that the job comes with a lot of frustration. She said serving in Congress had gotten a lot harder since Trump’s election last year and that she’s forced to “navigate in the political theater, but I don’t breathe life into it and I don’t enjoy it, just to be frank with you. It actually drains me.”
As she was talking to bankers, McSally focused on the latest GOP efforts to repeal the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that regulated banks after the 2007 economic collapse. She characterized Dodd-Frank as a hindrance to banks that needs to be repealed.
“Within the public, there is often a perception that we had the financial meltdown and then Dodd-Frank was good and it was, you know, saving us from future financial meltdowns,” McSally said. “You guys are all experts in the industry and you know that’s not the truth. Really, what Dodd-Frank did, was it provided additional compliance and legislative regulations and more burdens upon you. It doesn’t actually protect the consumer anymore, it just adds more paperwork and compliance.”
https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/the-skinny/Content?oid=9242427
Poor, poor, poor Martha. She’s blamed for everything Trump does. Of course, her Trump score is 100 percent on voting with him.
I should mention that Martha’s war chest was nearly 8 million in 2016 and she’s obviously working on that for 2018. She would take money from the Devil, I do believe.
https://twitter.com/TheRoot/status/873178347819462657
anyone not a WHITE MALE would be afforded this.
under ANY circumstances.
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Trump’s allies point to his ignorance and inexperience as a defense
06/09/17 08:00 AM—UPDATED 06/09/17 08:05 AM
By Steve Benen
As Donald Trump’s Russia scandal has intensified, and evidence of alleged obstruction of justice has mounted, the president’s allies have argued repeatedly that the Republican did not do what he’s accused of doing. The allegations, the right has insisted, are wrong.
This week, the party line changed. Maybe he did do some of those things, Trump’s defenders have begun arguing, but it’s just because he’s so ignorant.
Here, for example, is what House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters yesterday:
Away from the national spotlight, GOP guts Wall Street safeguards
06/09/17 09:20 AM
By Steve Benen
As much of the country probably noticed, it was a rather dramatic day on Capitol Hill yesterday. The former director of the FBI gave sworn testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee, suggesting the president of the United States may have obstructed justice. The hearing generated quite a bit of attention, and for good reason: Donald Trump’s presidency is facing a genuine crisis.
But on the other side of Capitol Hill, House Republicans were only too pleased to take advantage of the fact that their latest moves unfolded far from the national spotlight.
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Trump sets up a contest of credibility he simply cannot win
06/09/17 08:42 AM—UPDATED 06/09/17 09:22 AM
By Steve Benen
The list of Donald Trump falsehoods exposed by former FBI Director James Comey over the last two days isn’t short.
Trump was asked on Fox News last month whether he ever asked Comey for his loyalty. Trump responded, “No, I didn’t.” Trump was asked at a White House press conference last month, “Did you at any time urge former FBI Director James Comey in any way, shape, or form to close or to back down the investigation into Michael Flynn?” Trump replied, “No. No. Next question.”
Trump was asked by NBC News’ Lester Holt about the private dinner he had with Comey, and the president said Comey “asked for the dinner.” Trump said Comey had called him on the phone in the weeks that followed to tell the president he wasn’t under investigation. Trump said Comey was fired in part because FBI personnel had “lost confidence” in the bureau’s director.
Each of these claims now appears to be a brazen lie the president told the American public.
But wait, Republicans will argue, we don’t know for sure that Trump was lying. What we have here is a “he said, he said” dispute. For all we know, the GOP argument goes, perhaps Comey’s claims are untrue and the president has been completely honest.
And while that may make the White House and its allies feel better, this posture isn’t quite right.
The President’s Lawyer Fails Miserably in Defending His Client
by Nancy LeTourneau
June 8, 2017 4:42 PM
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Let’s break that defense down into three general categories. First of all, both the president and most Republicans are determined to highlight the statements from Comey about Trump not being personally under investigation. That ignores one of the critical things Comey said during the hearing in response to questions about whether or not the president attempted to obstruct justice.
“I don’t think it is for me to say whether the conversation I had with the president was an effort to obstruct,” Comey said. “I took it as a very disturbing thing, very concerning, but that’s a conclusion I’m sure the special counsel will work toward: to try and understand what the intention was there and whether that’s an offense.”
It sounds like Trump is now the subject of an investigation by Mueller into whether or not he attempted to obstruct justice.
In the second category, Kasowitz said that Trump never suggested that they “let Flynn go” and never asked for Comey’s loyalty. In other words, he wants to make this a he said/he said between Trump and Comey. As Ed Kilgore wrote today, “Trump is not going to win a credibility contest with James Comey.” A president whose supporters have to refer to “alternative facts” and parse out whether he should be taken “literally” or “seriously” is going to lose that contest every time. And that isn’t even taking into consideration that Trump lies an average of five times a day. This is precisely where the president’s mendacity will come back to haunt him.
Dear Mr Attorney General: Go before the Senate Intel Committee and say that under oath. @20committee @morgfair https://t.co/Cfx69Loixz
— John Perkowski (@john_perkowski) June 9, 2017
.@realdonaldtrump isn’t the only one disputing Comey’s testimony https://t.co/GfGr6nVZiY
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) June 9, 2017
Interesting how Sessions remembers these meetings in detail but forgets that he met with the Russians.
— Jonathan Drake (@Duck_person) June 9, 2017
The front page of today’s @USATODAY pic.twitter.com/F60gMzBZIN
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 9, 2017
Wow. The @NRCC is having a total freakout over #GA06. New ad calls Jon Ossoff a “childish radical.” https://t.co/gObtSgZNhY pic.twitter.com/hpy5vwsBXV
— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) June 9, 2017
Ossoff 51
Handel 44#GA06 👀 https://t.co/rthHoYENoV
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 9, 2017
May blew a 25 point lead in 8 weeks!
#ACASignups REVISED VERSION: The 3-Legged Stool of the #ACA (& why killing/weakening EHBs is a major problem): pic.twitter.com/vPMtK0pMhA
— ☪️ Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charles_gaba) June 8, 2017
One of the biggest real problems w/the ACA is the green leg was cut too short (APTC/CSR should be beefed up w/higher cap). 2/
— ☪️ Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charles_gaba) June 8, 2017
Sadly, instead of lengthening the green leg, the GOP keeps trying to shorten the blue leg, while pretending to cut off the red leg. 3/
— ☪️ Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charles_gaba) June 8, 2017
In reality, AHCA also shortens the green leg for older/sicker folks while replacing the red leg w/a weird, ineffective “30% surcharge” leg.
— ☪️ Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charles_gaba) June 8, 2017
https://twitter.com/PoojaOnTV/status/872960629862223873
I wonder if the redneck cop lady and her fat f**k husband would have been indicted without the video. These two Neanderthals really think they rule the world, or at least their piece of it. Damn these people. Life is hard enough for most of us without having to contend with these mentally challenged yet very dangerous white supremacists. And how did she ever get to be a cop? Where are the standards?
Out on bond? Well I’ll be damn. And that love shirt? Really disgusting.
https://twitter.com/AntonioArellano/status/873152260343304193
Paid for by the FOP probably
Yep. That’s why folks need to hang up the phone when they call begging for money.
https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/873156117152620544
https://twitter.com/CNN/status/873041976932708352
The main reason May called the election three years before they were slated to be held in 2020 was because she was trying to increase her majority in parliament, and the move backfired on her spectacularly. She deserves this. Shortly after becoming PM, she filed the Brexit paperwork and was thinking she’d have fewer problems pushing it through if she had a larger majority in parliament. Based on voting results, it appears to me that the young citizens in the UK sent her a “piss off” message yesterday since most of them voted for Labour candidates. I’m waiting for Trump to send May a tweet congratulating her on her “win” because the fcker doesn’t understand a d*mn thing about anything.
The indictments are the first step. May they rot in jail.
BREAKING NEWS
https://twitter.com/BNONews/status/873040306039513089
Good Morning Everyone 😐😐😐
TGIF, Everyone!