Posted on 08/01/2011 7:32:26 PM PDT by Nachum
The death of a homeless man fatally injured during a fight with Fullerton police has captured the attention of the community and affected morale in the department.
Kelly Thomas, 37, who was schizophrenic, died July 10, five days after the confrontation with six police officers at the Fullerton Transportation Center.
Fullerton police Sgt. Andrew Goodrich said the department has received hundreds of phone calls and e-mails from across California and hundreds turned out to protest Saturday morning at the Fullerton police station.
"It's not pleasant to see people in front of the police station calling the officers 'murderers,'" Goodrich said.
"We understand the community is outraged and concerned and what we've said all along is the incident happened, but the chief called for an outside agency to do a transparent investigation of what happened that night," Goodrich said.
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They should have been arrested like all the other thugs.
this afternoon on kfi 640 am an anonymous informant
said that the officer who killed kelly was an
ex-lapd officer. he had graduated from the academy
recently and had one eye shot out in a gang fight.
lapd let him go with a settlement.
fullerton picked him up to save money on academy training.
also, kfi played a video and audio of bus riders discussing what they saw as kelly was murdered.
Nachum, guys like this must be lurkers, or they are cops. I guess I am a “cop hater,” because I am repulsed at this kind of behavior. Our former Chief of Police (a former friend until I found out what a total jerk he was) would say that this is “Death by Cop.” Stated more succinctly, “ he wanted to die, so he forced a confrontation with these morons in Blue.”
How to resist a beating by an angry small town cop:
1) Have cop friends who will stop him
or
2) Offer the cop your wallet and ask him if he will take a check
or
3) Bend head between legs and kiss your ass goodbye
If all 6 cops on the scene unanimously participated in the torture and murder of a disabled man in plain view of the public, the problem is not just these 6 killers. The entire police culture is the problem.
Statistically, if all 6 at the scene did this, then nearly everyone on the Fullerton police force would have done the same. These 6 are not exceptions who just happened to come together.
Fullerton is (for California) a pretty Conservative area. I suspect the Town is pretty quite and the Cops were just blowing off some steam after not having much to do other than eat Donuts for the last 364 days. /s The Man’s face is unrecocnizable...the Cops should face the Death Penalty. Just more Union Goons whom we can’t count on our side anymore. It’s going to be a nasty revolution.
In cop culture, murdering a non-cop is acceptable. But snitching on a fellow cop for murdering a non-cop is the worst thing you can do. The snitch would be punished in a big way, possibly dying in an accident or having a family member die in an accident.
If anyone thinks cops would not do that sort of thing, scroll to the top of this window and read the article.
The fact that they don't means they are all accessories after the fact.
Police should be held to a higher standard than the rest of us because of the power and trust they are given, but I'd be more than willing to just have them held to the same one they hold us to.
Not this time
“Yes he was mentally ill. So that gives these policement the right to execute him.. Sounds like Nazi Germany, kill everyone who was old, sick or Jewish.”
And the police knew the man was schizophrenic how? Isn’t hindsight grand?
“And they can’t bully, beat or kill those uppity protestors who are “disrespecting the police” either. It must be stressful.”
Maybe they could shoot some dogs to cheer themselves up?
Lots of 37 year old men cry for their dad... How does that boot taste?
I wonder the same.
Even further:
If a CCW uses force to save a civilian in such a situation ,then what?
A father's living torture ...to be haunted by the knowledge that your son was crying out for you while he was being beaten to death, and you weren't there.
“Lots of 37 year old men cry for their dad... How does that boot taste?”
Hitler loved his dog. Bad people with mental problems can still be a problem, wouldn’t you say?
It’s terrible. Losing your son is bad enough, but that is even worse. I hope he can find peace. I don’t know if I could.
If the dead man was black.... Then the media would be all over it.
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