Are the cops threatening and intimidating the juries? They are the ones giving the verdicts.
This verdict left me speechless. The evidence was there for all to see and the jury still let them get away with murder. The only good news is that the psycho-cops got fired. I hope the family of the victim goes after their pensions.
How can they sleep at night?
When the officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted by the jury in Simi Valley, then President George H. Bush demanded, and got, a federal trial.
So, when is Obama going to demand a federal trial of these Fullerton cops? Do I hear the sound of crickets?
These Police Officers violated the civil rights of Kelly Thomas by beating him to death.
Why won’t his parents file a Complaint with the F.B.I. to have this crime investigated?
Where I reside in Connecticut.We just had a number of Police officers who served with the East Haven,Connecticut P.D.Tried and convicted of violating the civil rights of some illegal aliens.These Illegal aliens did not get beaten to death by those officers.
But they were convicted just the same.
Its time for the Justice Department to investigate this vicious crime and put those Fullerton Police Officers where they belong,Behind Bars for life.
Ping
The fundamental problem is that socialist statist (otherwise known as communism) brainwashing throughout the 20th century has taught people to see the government and it’s officials as beneficent servants of the people acting in everyone’s best interests. Therefore, jurors do not want to “interfere” with the police who are acting in everyone’s best interest by protecting them from “bad people” like Mr. Kelly. So, it becomes easier to excuse the police when they are simply “overzealous” in protecting us.
Naturally, these jurors would not want to be responsible themselves for dealing with Mr. Kelly. These same people see the police as being responsible for their personal safety; so, they want the police out there protecting them no matter how the police accomplish that protection.
These people would be horrified to discover that the police have no legal responsibility to keep any individual safe. They do not realize that the reason that the police have no legal mandate to protect them is that the law correctly places the responsibility for protecting individuals on the individual, not the government or it’s agents.
As a result of socialist brainwashing, many people are too willing to trade their liberty for a false sense of security provided by the government which is what Ben Franklin warned us against. Libertarian thought which correctly emphasizes individual liberty in conjunction with individual responsibility is the best defense against that brainwashing.
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par for the course