Justice for Kelly Thomas

HOODS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eolzmeSZ75Q&feature=related

Two Fullerton police officers have been criminally charged in the violent confrontation that left a homeless mentally ill man dead, Orange County Dist. Atty. Tony Rackauckas announced Wednesday.

Officer Manuel Ramos has been charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in connection with the beating of 37-year-old Kelly Thomas, a homeless schizophrenic man. Officer Jay Cicinelli has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and excessive use of force.

Rackauckas said the department reviewed 151 witness statements, videos of the beating, medical reports and police statements.

The district attorney's office had been awaiting the coroner's determination on the cause of death before deciding whether to file charges.

Officers approached Kelly Thomas on July 5 at the bus depot in downtown Fullerton while responding to a report of someone trying to break into cars. According to witness accounts, Thomas ran when officers attempted to search his bag. Exactly what happened next is unclear, but witnesses said they saw multiple officers hitting Kelly and shooting him with a Taser while he was on the ground.

Officials from the district attorney's office have said they were awaiting toxicology and other test results from the coroner before making a decision on the case. That report was handed over to the district attorney's office Tuesday, but the findings were not made public.

Thomas, a 37-year-old homeless man with schizophrenia, was a regular presence in downtown Fullerton. He died five days after the confrontation, after being removed from life support.

Earlier this month, an attorney representing the Thomas family released hospital records that showed Thomas had tested negative for drugs and alcohol and that the immediate cause of death was "brain death" due to "head trauma" from the incident.

The hospital records released showed that he suffered brain injuries, a shattered nose, a smashed cheekbone, broken ribs and severe internal bleeding. Thomas also had been shocked with a stun gun "multiple" times, including in the left chest near the heart, the records showed.

Thomas' father, Ron, has been pushing the district attorney's office to file charges against the officers, and the case has sparked a furious reaction, including weekly protests outside the police station and a recall campaign against three City Council members.

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Travis

Justice will come when the "peace officer" is convicted and sent to the state penn. He'll be found with his dick cut off and a chair leg jammed up his ass....

Travis

this made me shed a tear, seriously.....

NOCAP

Fuck cops man.fuck this shit

Stratophony

wow... that's horrific

Travis

Justice will come when the "peace officer" is convicted and sent to the state penn. He'll be found with his dick cut off and a chair leg jammed up his ass....

Justice will come when the "peace officer" is convicted and sent to the state penn. He'll be found with his dick cut off and a chair leg jammed up his ass....

Justice will come when the "peace officer" is convicted and sent to the state penn. He'll be found with his dick cut off and a chair leg jammed up his ass....

Gnomez

That's so sad.
And you wonder why people don't respect the police any more

Shane

every officer involved at that scene should be convicted, guilty by association

Gnomez

Im surprised that people could just stand back and watch but I guess you always assume the cops are "doing the right thing" and are "using the necessary force to restrain a villain"

KridesBrideBritt

Whoa.

Gnomez

And yet the way the legal system is, potentially the family of the victim could sue the bystanders for allowing it to happen?

That_Guy_Arlo

Im surprised that people could just stand back and watch but I guess you always assume the cops are "doing the right thing" and are "using the necessary force to restrain a villain"

unfortunately, if normal people tried to stop the cops they'd just get arrested for obstruction of "justice"

I mean, if they were willing to do that to him you have to be afraid of the cops doing almost as much harm to you if you were to try and get in the way.

cherry_or_gtfo

Im surprised that people could just stand back and watch but I guess you always assume the cops are "doing the right thing"

What if they really are? And our interference lets the perp get away? Yea, I understand that kind of physical contact is inappropriate and yea someone could have stepped in, but like dayna said...we'd get in shit for interfering.

TiradesOfTruth

Fucking Pigs. I can't wait to see them get beaten to a pulp when they are in prison.

Xeno

Fuck cops man.fuck this shit

There is somewhere around 690,000 full-time police officers throughout the USA. Obviously there are going to be some assholes in there, but the majority of them do their job correctly and aren't as fucked up as these people.

1D_for_life

Fuck cops man.fuck this shit

There is somewhere around 690,000 full-time police officers throughout the USA. Obviously there are going to be some assholes in there, but the majority of them do their job correctly and aren't as fucked up as these people.

This.

Gazorpazorpfield

You don't see articles all the time about "Cop does his job"
You just see "Asshole cop rah rah rah"

That_Guy_Arlo

You don't see articles all the time about "Cop does his job"

Actually you do, when there is a heroic event that place where they honor a certain police officer. To say that it's unfair that they never notice the ones that simply do their jobs correctly is a bit silly. You'd literally have thousands of reports that nobody would care about. And why should someone be commended for just doing their job? I'm not hating on cops by any means here, I'm a huge supporter of their work, there's no way in hell I'd ever be able to have the guts to do it. This is still a horrific event though that needs to be known about though, and these particular few officers need to be locked up for a very long time.

HOODS

This is a little worse then the cops just being assholes. They brutally tortured and murdered a man.

Xeno

Well of course it is, I just meant as a generality.

Episode

FUCK THE POLICE.

Filthy ass worthless fucking pigs.