ping
Nothing ever does.
F/n morons who hired and trained those cops.
What would have the outcome been if they had used “excessive” force and demonstrated NO control?
I will go out on a limb now and opine that no charges will be filed against the officers. However, Mr. Kelly might be charged with damaging city property,[to wit] the oggicer’s night sticks.
Kelly’s father, grandfather, great grandfather and uncle were/are all police officers.
It was “Beat the crap out of the homeless crazy guy.” and maybe he will hang out someplace else.
It got badly out of hand.
If I recall correctly, wasn’t this the young man who was homeless and simply ran away from the police when they showed up? If so, I remember that witness statements said he kept “calling for his Dad”. What at horrible time for his family... to know that while their son was being beaten and tazed to DEATH.. he called out for his Dad. Words fail me..
A sickening example of what kind of people can somehow find their way into law enforcement today, and the mindset that seems to be established in training. A major reformation, and redirection is needed desperately.
Look at Kelly Thomas' picture post mortem. Everyone I showed it to had the same response: "Is that a human being?"
I admit I am enraged, but still, I am somewhat astonished that I haven't heard that police stations are burning and police helicopters falling out of the sky in Fullerton. If they don't find this revolting, then they deserve to be slaughtered.
No drugs or alcohol in system. He was a regular at the local, nearby Alcoholics Anonymous meeting club.
People there know him to be peaceful, but clearly mentally ill. Never an incedent of him being violent.
Travesties of Justice are a dime a dozen these days.
a symptom of a society on the decline, imho.