DeMarco had been watching Thomas weaving in between cars, looking through car windows and pulling door handles for up to four minutes before calling police, said Eric Dubin, the SlideBar’s attorney
— that’s from your link!
This happened more tha 2 years ago. There has been a lot of local coverage, practically daily when it happened.
FTA: “Michael Reeves was working the door at the Slidebar Rock-n-Roll Kitchen on the night half a dozen officers took down Thomas, an unarmed, mentally ill homeless man who frequented the area. He claims in a lawsuit that a manager at the Slidebar falsely reported that Thomas was trying to break into cars, setting in motion the events that led to his death.”
Like I said, your information about Thomas isn't accurate. Slidebar employees were told to make reports against vagrants to the police because they were a nuisance. Thomas was known to the police as a NON-VIOLENT schizophrenic. He never hurt anyone, he picked up cigarettes to smoke. The comparisons to Adam Lanza and James Holmes are lies. If you think all schizophrenics are violent, you're misinformed. But its clear that its being done to justify beating him to death. That's what should concern people. And yes I have friends near Fullerton too, so pulling the “I live in Southern California” card doesn't work with me.