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!"
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Sure, but mental wards, who deal with this all the time, don’t beat their patients with batons. Some how they can handle yet these guys couldn’t.
The endorsement of Mittens, and:
http://www.fitsnews.com/2011/01/13/haley-approves-huge-salary-increases/
How about a challenger for Lindsay Graham?
Buddy Witherspoon challenged Lindsey Graham last election.
How do you not know this?
And who is Buddy Witherspoon? Probably a good guy, but my opinion is that if it is not someone with name recognition, the majority of voters will not know him.
It would take be an established, high profile politician to defeat Lindsay. They are few and far between here in SC.
Niki Haley got the OWS vermin off the state house grounds. I like to walk around the capitol building, and they were stinking up the place. Give her credit for that, at least.
“Yeah, who needs a legal system. Just let the cops beat to death anyone they want to.”
Hey, it worked for Rodney King.
Cops have forgotten that it is the nature of their job to hazzard their safety to protect others. They’ve turned into cowards who have shot through hostages the moment their lives comes under threat.
Want to get your blood boiling? Go to the cato institute’s website for swat actions gone wrong. Someone here posts it regularly.
What we're seeing is the "union mentality". Many are there to collect a paycheck and a pension, and do not see their job as a duty and a trust.
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