What is sickening is that this junk gets an audience.
Ah, so having a bunch of cops beating a man to death is no cause for concern. Got it. I suppose Neda Agha-Soltan was just "resisting arrest" in Iran also, eh?
Posted on 07/28/2011 11:25:52 AM PDT by Smogger
Edited on 07/28/2011 11:47:56 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
A shocking video has been released allegedly showing police officers tasering and beating a homeless man to death who they claim was resisting arrest. Though the video is not clear, eye witnesses say the homeless man - Kelly Thomas, 37 - was unable to put up any resistance and was lying on the ground on his front when the attack took place on July 5. His screams and cries for his father can be heard amid the tasering noises.
Graphic photo at link.
“Now I beg them to stay as far away from them as possible.”
That is the best advise you could ever give them
These thugs need to spend 30 years in Pelican Bay in gen-pop. The convicts would extract justice.
Instead, they will most likely get an extra week or two of paid vacation for doing this cold blooded murder.
Since the state sees the average, law-abiding citizen as the criminal they will end up locking us all up unless we stop it. Lenin was of the opinion that it was perfectly fine to murder up to 90% the population in order to achieve his political aims.
Indeed.
No, but I would still seek to catch them all one at a time tie them up and taser and beat each one of them in the same manner (just short of death hopefully.) that is if it had been my son or daughter.
I think Samuel Adams was addressing people like you when he said:
“Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
heck they are lucky they weren’t arrested for watching the murder
What is sickening is that this junk gets an audience.
Ah, so having a bunch of cops beating a man to death is no cause for concern. Got it. I suppose Neda Agha-Soltan was just "resisting arrest" in Iran also, eh?
Well then, there can be no argument against the 135lb kid needing to be beaten to death..........case closed.
Last I heard Hillary only had it at 75%
The Seattle PD would be issuing a statement saying that the officers followed "established procedures" and the local union perp would be issuing another statement calling the officers victims.
Give her time... giver her time... After all, Rome didn’t fall in a day.
If Thomas wasn’t trying to use a deadly weapon against them during the last moments of the beating, it was a murder.
See my tagline? A cop in my area verbally compared me to Tim McVeigh because of that experience in my (clean) history and for no other reason. I was over 30 years of age, when I started that Army training and am not young. He was a fat boy with a curly permanent in his hair. That’s not good public affairs work on his part, and he’s part of a trend of increasingly common anti-social behavior from too many individuals in police agencies.
Which brings me to another point for all of you. A “them against us” attitude is becoming more common, but know this. Police are not as cohesive as portrayed on television or as those in administrative positions often imply. They have internal conflicts, and those aren’t minor. I finished an academy, tried the occupation, found serious corruption, and left considerations for that kind of career behind (also left that horrid area behind).
Also, from sometime during the ‘90s, the focus for hiring has changed in police agencies. Those chosen for police jobs are mostly single and have no previous combat training. Those individuals who utter the desire “to see some action” are favored over others for hiring.
Criminals refuse to consider consequences.
One poster on another thread referred to beatings such as this as "street justice."
I am in no way suggesting that he deserved to be beat to death and 37 is not a kid.
Uh Oh. Is the DA’s Investigation in the Hands of the Chief’s Good Buddy?
Posted by Travis Kiger in Orange County Government, The Crime Beat on July 28th, 2011
We may have figured out why it took the District Attorney investigators three weeks to start talking to witnesses on the Kelly Thomas police beating case…
According to this unsigned note that just came in to our website, Chief Sellers is a close personal friend of DA investigator Stan Berry, who was immediately assigned to the high-profile Fullerton case:
I suggest you check into the connection between Investigator Berry and FPD Chief Sellers. Sellers hired Berry when he was the Chief at Seal Beach PD. Sellers and his wife Rita Fraser-Sellers, are close personal friends with Berry and his wife, Kristen Berry, the Dispatch Supervisor in Seal Beach. They socialize together, vacation together and entertain each other in their respective homes.
Of all the DA investigators, why choose Berry, other than he will help cover for his friend.
Presumably that case assignment was a decision made by the DA Tony Rackauckas. I have confirmed that Berry worked as an investigator under Chief Sellers for the Seal Beach Police Department.
As far as the familial socializing, entertaining and vacationing together…maybe the Chief can clear that one up for us.
If our informant is correct, this would be a huge conflict of interest in a very high-profile investigation.
More about Kelly Thomas Beating, Tony Rackaukas
Is there another video? Nothing can be seen on the one at the link other than the back of some woman standing in the way and some police cars in the distance. You can hear the comments of the people around the camera but otherwise I don’t see anything actually happening.
They must have flipped him over to finish him off.
Apparently, there are cameras in all of the squad cars. Who knows if and when the public will get to see those.
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