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Cop Beats Woman With Baseball Bat

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Walnut Creek cop enters pleas to two felonies
Contra Costa Times | September 8, 2014 | Gary Peterson

A Walnut Creek police officer who beat a woman with a baseball bat believing he was defending a vacant Richmond house owned by his father entered pleas to two felonies and an enhancement at his arraignment Monday.

Gregory Thompson, out of custody and wearing a light-brown suit, pleaded no contest to felony assault with force likely to cause great bodily injury and felony vandalism, and admitted to a firearm enhancement. After the hearing, Thompson, 53, raced from the courthouse with a phone held against his ear and got into a waiting vehicle without responding to any questions.

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"We can prove he went down there because people had been breaking into his father's vacant house," Grove said. "He found a woman on the street. It appears he in some way believed that she was attempting to break into the house and seek shelter, and with a ski mask and gloves, he beat her with a baseball bat."

The prosecutor said the woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries, adding that investigators checked the woman's car and confirmed it was out of gas.

Walnut Creek police Capt. Mark Perlite said Thompson had been placed on paid administrative leave. Grove said the felonies and the firearm enhancement would prohibit Thompson from resuming his law enforcement career.

Grove said Thompson can eventually return to court and ask the judge to reduce his felonies to misdemeanors. Thompson is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 10.
 
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