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The Tennessee Conservative Staff –
A homeless ex-con was arrested in Nashville over the weekend and is accused of randomly attacking two women.
According to Metro Police, 32-year-old Jacob Harrison Thompson has been charged with aggravated kidnapping, attempted aggravated rape, and attempted rape, stemming from the two incidents.
Police state that the attacks occurred on Sunday. Thompson allegedly assaulted a 29-year-old woman around 3 pm at her car near Representative John Lewis Way and Lea Avenue. He then went on to allegedly attack a 30-year-old woman in a restroom at Fifth & Broadway.
Metro Police released the following information regarding the attacks:
In the first case, which occurred shortly after 3 p.m., the victim had just gotten off work and walked to her car. Once she got inside, she saw a man, later identified as Thompson, staring at her. He ran toward the vehicle, got inside from the passenger door, and attempted to force her to perform a sex act. The victim put the car in reverse in an attempt to get away but collided with another vehicle. She got out and ran. A witness saw Thompson chasing her and yelled at him, which caused him to flee the immediate area.
In the second case, which occurred shortly after 4 p.m., the victim had gone into a women’s restroom at Fifth & Broadway. When she exited a stall, Thompson was standing in the restroom. As she attempted to walk by him, Thompson pulled her by the hair and began pounding her head into a wall. He took her to the ground and began attempting to remove her pants. Security staff and the victim’s husband entered the restroom to intervene. Thompson fled and ran down an escalator as security staff pursued him. Central Precinct officers responded quickly and took Thompson into custody.
Thompson is a convicted felon who was sentenced to five years for aggravated burglary in 2010 and 16 years for especially aggravated robbery in 2011. He was released from prison early, about 9 months ago, after earning credits for good behavior.
He is currently being held on a $650,000 bond.
3 Responses
A case like this makes me ask, “Do we have enough prisons in Tennessee to lock people like Thompson up until they are too old to commit crimes?” If the answer is “no” then I suggest we build as many prisons as necessary to do so. Go ahead, raise my taxes if necessary, that’s OK. I simply want Tennessee to acquire a national reputation to the effect that if you want to be a bad guy, you don’t want to be in Tennessee.
I agree completely about locking up these people who commit crimes. But don’t raise my taxes again! Quit spending for frivolous things that Tennessee does not want. Like financially supporting a new stadium for football players. They are making so much money already and the taxpayers of Nashville are paying for a new stadium? Why?
The trouble Patsy is that it won’t be a tradeoff. Politicians know that if they dig their heels in and refuse to contribute to a team’s new stadium the teams will soon leave for a community that will be more forthcoming. Fans of the team put pressure on politicians to comply with varying degrees of intensity while those who don’t care about the team usually don’t punish politicians who give the team owners what they want.
BOTTOM LINE: If we wait until we can fund new prisons with savings from depriving those with political clout of what they want it simply won’t happen. I’m afraid we can’t have law and order on the cheap. If we want to guarantee ourselves law and order we are going to have to put the bad guys away for a long time so that those convicted are no longer walking the street and the others decide that the cost of doing business in TN is too high so they go elsewhere and we taxpayers will probably have to pay for it.