This is not exactly news; (the incident occured on July 5, 2011) but I did a search and could find no links/threads to the murder of a homeless man - Kelly Thomas - in Fullerton, CA. Apparently, Thomas suffered from schizophrenia, according to his father. Now I know people who work at institutions for "troubled" and violent people; and I have witnessed firsthand a demonstration of how to quickly immobilize such individuals without harm to either the violent individual or to those who have to deal with them. What happened to this man was utterly unnecessary and brutal.
If you listen carefully at approx. 10 mins. into the tape, this human version of the Pillsbury DoughBoy keeps telling Thomas "Feet out in front of you." Well, Thomas' feet
are out in front of him. Then a little bit later you can hear DoughBoy say: "You see my fist? Well, it's going to fuck you up." ** Nice talk from a so-called "professional". **
Here is the link to the video of the entire confrontation. (Unfortunately, since this was apparently close to traffic, the background noise of the traffic makes some things difficult to hear. I wish there was a way to filter that out!) These cops - none of whom weighed in at less than 230 lbs. - beat and crushed this man to death, and all were exonerated from any wrongdoing in Orange County Superior Court. And all but one has been returned to active duty. There is something seriously wrong with these LE employees to have found it necessary to literally kill this man. And something even more seriously wrong for a court to have found all "innocent of any wrongdoing". I'm not saying that Kelly Thomas was innocent of all wrongdoing. Apparently, he had stolen peoples' mail. Was he a screwed-up individual? You bet. But IMO that was no reason for that man to have paid the price he paid. Any opinions?
http://www.ocregister.com/video/v/16...ton-government