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Video portrays violent death of Kelly Thomas (beaten to death by police)
LA Times ^
| May 8, 2012
| Richard Winton
Posted on 05/07/2012 11:20:38 PM PDT by heartwood
On the ground and screaming that he was "sorry," a shirtless Kelly Thomas is shown being hit again and again with fists, a baton and finally the butt of a stun gun by Fullerton police officers in a dramatic video that was shown for the first time Monday in an Orange County courtroom.
The grainy black and white video of Thomas' violent encounter with police outside a bus depot is the centerpiece of the prosecutions' case against two officers accused of escalating a standard police encounter with a homeless man into a fatal beating.
At one point, Thomas a 37-year-old mentally ill homeless man who was a familiar face in the city's downtown screams out: "Dad, they are killing me!"
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: cop; cops; donutwatch; fullerton; kellythomas; leo; police
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To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
“I have to look at this objectively.”
From your comments here I would have to say you might have a problem recognizing ‘objectivity’...
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posted on
05/08/2012 12:21:03 AM PDT
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Perhaps you would like to have an encounter with these jack-booted thugs pretending to be cops?
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posted on
05/08/2012 12:23:08 AM PDT
by
GGpaX4DumpedTea
(I am a tea party descendant - steeped in the Constitutional legacy handed down by the Founders)
To: heartwood
Definitely first degree murder. The poor guy. His poor parents. I hope they all get arrested and convicted.
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posted on
05/08/2012 12:29:02 AM PDT
by
Yaelle
To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost; darkwing104
Seriously, can I get some lightning here?
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posted on
05/08/2012 12:42:28 AM PDT
by
piytar
(The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
To: heartwood
I was once had the opportunity to stand up to a police man in Madison Wisconsin who was being very verbally abusive and threatening to a homeless man, who obviously was not all there. He seemed to be trying to provoke him into a physical response. Not too much later it was reported that the same police man was violently beaten up and hurt. Somehow I could believe it.
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posted on
05/08/2012 12:45:41 AM PDT
by
Bellflower
(The LORD is Holy, separated from all sin, perfect, righteous, high and lifted up.)
Comment #26 Removed by Moderator
To: piytar
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posted on
05/08/2012 1:36:48 AM PDT
by
antceecee
(Bless us Father.. have mercy on us and protect us from evil.)
To: heartwood
From “Protect and Serve” to “Resistance is Futile”.
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posted on
05/08/2012 1:41:59 AM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
Im as white as rice but this dude is being combative. Stormfront much?
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posted on
05/08/2012 1:57:24 AM PDT
by
Semper Mark
(Oh. Who's being naive, Kay?)
To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
Oh looky, another couple of noob JBT loving statists.
Yawn.
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posted on
05/08/2012 2:19:17 AM PDT
by
PalmettoMason
(South Carolinians need to start choosing a primary challenger to Nikki Haley NOW!!!!!!!)
To: Markos33
“Stormfront much?”
I think he was trying to say that since both he and the deceased are white, race is not an issue in his comments.
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posted on
05/08/2012 2:33:51 AM PDT
by
dsc
(Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
To: Politicalmom; GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
Nice tagline. I wonder if our newbies get it.
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posted on
05/08/2012 2:34:39 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: Politicalmom; GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
And that's what I get for posting before coffee. I initially read your tagline as "THIS IS NOT A COP CHEERLEADING SITE!!!", which worked quite well in this context.
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posted on
05/08/2012 2:38:37 AM PDT
by
FreedomPoster
(Islam delenda est)
To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
Don’t be a dummy. What rights do we have if the cops take them all, then our life? The whole cop thing is way out of control.
To: heartwood
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posted on
05/08/2012 2:52:56 AM PDT
by
DemforBush
(A Repo man is *always* intense!)
To: DemforBush
I should mention that, according to a related story (linked at the vid) the sound was taken from police microphones and added to the security camera footage which did not have sound (most security cameras don’t, for a number of reasons).
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posted on
05/08/2012 3:02:41 AM PDT
by
DemforBush
(A Repo man is *always* intense!)
To: Theoria
Have you ever read how some drugs give some takers almost super human strength under such circumstances. Likewise, it is not uncommon in mental wards to require large numbers of nurses or aides to restrain an unruly patient.
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posted on
05/08/2012 3:19:11 AM PDT
by
monocle
To: DemforBush
When was this video first released? I don’t remember seeing it before.
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posted on
05/08/2012 3:23:46 AM PDT
by
Ken H
(Austerity is the irresistible force. Entitlements are the immovable object.)
To: heartwood
1st I've heard of this.
No doubt a white victim of police violence.
The race hustlers aren't interested.
To: GeorgeWashingtonsGhost
abuse of power pure and simple.... they took a life, they should forfeit their’s....
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posted on
05/08/2012 4:21:43 AM PDT
by
joe fonebone
(If you vote for the lesser of two evils, you are still voting for evil.)
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