Caught On Tape: Six Fullerton Cops Viciously Murder Homeless Man
On the tape you can hear the Man calling out Dad! Dad! Dad! as these goons Murder him! – Fullerton Police, Mayor, City Council Not Speaking To Media!
‘The only thing we have left of our son is the blood in the gutter, that’s all we have left.’
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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.
The video was shot by a student in Fullerton, California. Kelly Thomas was beaten so badly he died in hospital several days later.
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According to Gawker, Thomas – who suffered from schizophrenia – caught the attention of the police after someone reported that a burglar was breaking into cars parked near a Fullerton bus station.
When officers approached Thomas in the depot parking lot and tried to arrest him, he resisted.
Police will not issue a statement saying the issue is under investigation but they did say that six officers were involved and two ‘suffered broken bones in the fight’.
However, they recently retracted that statement saying that it was only ‘soft tissue damage’.
Eye witnesses at the scene claim the six officers tasered him five times and beat him beyond recognition, which the disturbing photo of him in hospital shows.
Mark Turgeon, who was there, said: ‘They kept beating him and tasering him. I could hear zapping, and he wasn’t even moving.
‘He had one arm in front of him like this, he wasn’t resisting. And they kept telling him, “He’s resisting, quit resisting”, and he wasn’t resisting.’
Many members of the Fullerton community described Thomas as a passive, peaceful person.
‘The only thing we have left of our son is the blood in the gutter, that’s all we have left’
On the website Fullerton Stories, several people have shared their experiences interacting with Thomas, describing him as ‘very quiet and polite’, ‘gentle and childlike’, ‘sweet’, and ‘never a threat’.
Thomas has a previous conviction for assault with a deadly weapon 16 years ago, according to Gawker, which has been attributed to the onset of his illness.
Since his death, his family and members of the community have held protests outside the police department headquarters, looking for answers.
Two officers were suspended shortly after the attack but police will not confirm if it was related to the 37-year-old’s death.
Speaking about his son’s death, Thomas’s dad, Ron Thomas, a former sheriff’s deputy, said: ‘His death was gang-involved, the way I see it. A gang of rogue officers who brutally beat my son to death.’
He said he now feels ashamed for having ever been a law enforcement officer.
He has been in the area his son was attacked handing out flyers and asking people for help.
He said: ‘The only thing we have left of our son is the blood in the gutter, that’s all we have left.’
Local city council member Bruce Whitaker has called for a ‘clear, factual and complete explanation of events which led to the death of Kelly J. Thomas.’
He also wants the D.A. to release a police video that apparently shows the actual beating taking place.
Fullerton police Sgt Andrew Goodrich said that Thomas began to fight officers as they tried to search him.
He said: ‘We don’t know why he was so combative and resistant to the officers, but it took upwards of five to six officers to subdue him.
‘Sometimes when we take people into custody who don’t want to go into custody, we have to use force. It is never the preferred way of doing things.’
He said police are conducting an internal investigation into the officers’ actions and the District Attorney’s Office is conducting a criminal investigation.
The DA’s office said they cannot comment on details of cases until they are completed.
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the one that was the most vicious was a Xmarine and LAPD
and the marine corp has to take them young and convince them
that they made them a man and the end result is a sociapath
who can walk over his dead buddy and not have a care and
most police forces have a number of these people as they
flock together like birds of a feather and their does not seem to be a test for this type of person and a few years back they had a poll of Marine recuits and they were asked
if they would fire on citizens if directed and 80% were
affirmitive to fireing on citizens and in the training building at LAPD in Elyision park there is a entrance to
a room and its marked civilians and they have tried to make
LAPD a military police force rather than a citizen police force as this country was designed for.
some one in LA in power needs to correct this and yes
we do need a police force as some people cannot control
themselves for one reason or another and this also applys
to citizen police and I sent a article about Police in
Kalispell Mt quiting a man with a hatchet at the same time
as two LAPD officers wasted the Guaatamolin man in LA
they shot him because he had a knife and had been drinking
all they had to do was back off and kick him in the knees
but blood was on their minds and they accomplished the killing and now his children are minus a father and Charlie
Beck said their would be a fair investigation and that didn’t happen and it was planed that way from the get go
and the so called internal investigation is a fraud and a police force to police the police is in order and also a seperate proscution
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So mote it be, and I agree with you, aloud, with your last sentence.
amen and amen.
Give a small-minded person with low character and morals a little authority and they will abuse that authority every time. These goons should be hung out to dry.
They use to be known as “peace officers”. They are now known as “law enforcement officers”. Get the difference?
yea i live in tn and if you will go on you tube or just google DARREN RING IN TN and see what these animals did to this guy.they were on suspension but now there back to work with the dept.tn cops are way worse then cops in California we have the most police abuse cases but nothing is ever done.i made a comment on you tube about cops in tn and you tube gave me up so i got a visit from my local Nazis and was told NO MORE or else.this nation is not free anymore we are a police state,in tn i no we are.just my opinion
I have a file folder in my Home, chocked FULL of newspaper clippings, where Cops; Lawyers and Judges, in my home state of North Carolina, have been caught being crooked.
And just like for every ONE Speeder who gets caught, TEN get away with it….for every ONE of those Cops; Lawyers and Judges that got caught, TEN got away with it!
I went as far as writing a letter to the U.S. Attorney General about the problem. Nothing changed. NEVER trust a COP; LAWYER or, JUDGE!
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thats why uou call in a MAC team (mental acute crisis) this is a gross misuse of power.. these cops should be HUNG PERIOD!!!! Power tripping jerks… you took a families son!!! shame on you and i hope God punishes you for your evil deeds. RIP my friend… and peace be with the family.. LULZSEC i beg of you to attack these monsters!!!!
We Americans are living in a Police State! This is evident in this video. The Police have Carte Blanche to violate your Constitutional Rights! These thugs are no better than a third world police malitcha and should be prosecuted at the full extent of the law! The Family should sue these animals for every penny they have! Police are shooting unarmed civilians, firing rubber bullets into unruly crowds in Hollywood. This cowboy mentality has got to stop or there will be riots in the streets! Has everybody forgot the Rodney King Riots! The police are out of contol and the city allows them to be out control and should be held more accountable in criminal and civil courts.
This is just outrageous this thuggery continues to happen on a daily basis it’s pathetic!!! Gangsta’s wearing Badges with shaven heads kind of reminds me of the Gastopo’s SS with the nod of the politicians! We are not Free no more than what is happening in Lybia and Syria! Now isn’t the U.S. Constitution suppose to GUARANTEED or did the warantee run out for us citizenry!
Why are these savages, including the watch commander, not behind bars with murder charges?
right now, not soon, we need a civilian defense militia to protect ourselves from the POLICE and other intent on abusing our civil rights.
These thugs murdered this man. If they did not wear a badge they would be in jail. Incidents such as these as well as officer misconduct is becoming widespread and will continue to grow because as long as cops believe they can get away with this behavior they will continue to do it. Unless every city and town implements a citizen review board to investigate officer related incidents such as this, they will continue to occur without any serious consequences. The public pays the taxes that pay these officer salaries and they are public servants accountable to us NOT themselves. Instead of protecting thier communities, they (not all)put them at risk. They need to go to prison like the criminals they are and that goes for their fellow police officers who have knowledge and fail to act they are just as guilty as the perpetrators.
This is very scary. I have a son with Autism would police recognize this illness or would they beat my son to death also. That is very scary.
This is sickening, these cops should not be even be working in a job that involves contact with anything living.
They are investigating? What their own members of the police force? B.S.
I think the FBI should be investigating.
Only because it is an outside source and just maybe with any luck they might give a fair report of what really happened. (wouldn’t count on it)
This shit is happening almost everyday now in the US.
Soon it will be time to get a carry permit to protect yourself from the police.
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