The Kendall County Sheriff's Department has launched an internal investigation into an alleged incident involving an off-duty deputy pulling a gun on a pregnant woman in a Walmart express lane.
Just one week from her due date, Nicole Thurmond said she feared for her life while checking out at a Walmart store in Oswego on a recent Sunday.
"I felt someone close behind me. He started being really rude and said, 'Don't you know how to count? You are holding up the whole store," Thurmond recalled.
Thurmond said she didn't know it at the time, but the man in plain clothes was off-duty deputy Craig French.
Thurmond's husband had been getting eggs at the time and said he could see his wife was upset when he returned to the checkout area.
"There was a guy in her face, yelling at her," said Jason Thurmond. "In an aggressive manner he steps toward me, and I just push him back to keep him away from my wife and myself, and before I knew it I just froze because he pulled out a gun."
Jason Thurmond said the man didn't show his badge, was "waving a gun in a store," and at one point asked them if they were on welfare.
"At one point I turned by back to him, because I was afraid if it did go off, at least it hits my backside and not in the front where my baby is," said Nicole Thurmond.
The couple said that only after he waved the gun did the man identify himself as a sheriff's deputy.
Jason Thurmond was arrested and charged with misdemeanor battery for the shove he admits he gave the deputy. The Thurmonds have since filed a formal complaint with the department.
"I'm a big believer in karma. Someday he'll be the one who can't move very fast. He'll see," said the expectant mother.
The Kendall County Sheriff's Department said in a statement the incident is under an internal investigation to determine if the deputy’s actions "are consistent with the rules and regulations of the Sheriff’s Office."
The investigation is separate from any criminal investigation by Oswego Police, the department said in a statement.
I was honestly all set to make some jokes about too many items in the express check out and how it's a slippery slope when it comes to the law (and also about how those two people intercoursed each other enough to have a 5th kid on the way because I'm not sure how certain body parts reached other body parts), but I can't do it. If a friggin' sheriff's deputy pulled a gun on my wife I would be going berserk. I do not know, for the life of me, how these people are so calm. The fact that the husband was arrested is just bizarro world stuff.
F*ckin' A, between Mitt Romney and this sheriff's deputy, I am in a really bad place the last 24 hours.
-Big Ran
PS: I dig this lady's guilt/karma swag though: "I'm a big believer in karma. Someday he'll be the one who can't move very fast. He'll see," said the expectant mother.
You can totally tell she's already a mom. Laying guilt trips like a pro. She's not mad at the deputy, she's just disappointed. Bro probably hung himself as soon as he heard that.
PPS: Lauren Jiggets bringing some heat. It also looks like she threw a coat on and is standing in front of a green screen. I can't blame her, I wouldn't want to go to Wal Mart either.
PPS: Lauren Jiggets bringing some heat. It also looks like she threw a coat on and is standing in front of a green screen. I can't blame her, I wouldn't want to go to Wal Mart either.
