Kelly Thomas Murdered by Cops, While Fullerton Officials Do Nothing, The World is Watching
Published by Spencer Hawken on August 2, 2011 in USA & Canada-
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Forget Rodney King, California police have created a far worse atrocity, and lucky for them nobody is doing anything… Or so it seems.
It has been almost a month since homeless man Kelly Thomas (37) was brutally murdered in Fullerton, California. The man was beaten and tased repeatedly by a gang of cops, after they descended on Thomas for a crime he did not commit. The word at the time was that because he ran, they had to restrain him. But to someone suffering from schizophrenia, when police come after you for doing nothing, running might seem like a logical option. Thomas was beaten to a pulp by Fullertons supposed law enforcement official, a beating he never recovered from and died five days later.
New footage released (see below) was taken from a bus collecting passengers from near the scene of the crime, in it you hear eye witness accounts of what has just occurred.
What confuses most people about the incident is the complete lack of action that has taken place after the incident. Police are saying little at all about the incident, releasing the same information over and over again. The Mayors office is also saying very little, almost pushing it aside. Yet to almost everyone that comes across this horrifying story it’s difficult to comprehend the complete lack of action.
Recently (almost a month after the incident) Fullerton councillor Sharon Quirk-Silva demanded the release of nearby CCTV footage, which it is thought to be in the hands of the police department. And the immediate administrative leave of the six police officers involved… Administrative leave? Does that not mean that the officers should be put on paid leave? Paid Leave!!! Great murder a man and get a paid holiday, is this punishment or a reward?
Below is footage from the scene, taken by a spectator. While the imagery is blurry its apparent exactly what it taking place.
Now you will see the shocking state of Kelly Thomas after the beating he received.
At the risk of sounding UK snobbish (I have been picked up on this before by an individual), and having the News Of The World thrown in my face, if this story had occurred in the UK someone by now would be making some very clear statements about this incident. But in the what I can only describe as corrupt Fullerton, nobody except the media is saying anything, and if they do try to say anything, they are confronted with legal warnings from the police departments legal team, essentially ordering Friends Of Fullerton’s Future to shut up of face legal action, in what can only be described as an unprofessional manner.
If this had occurred in Syria, the six officers would no doubt have been publicly lynched, how lucky these cops are that they live in a society where they are protected their wrong doings.
Below is a picture of Kelly Thomas, the way most of Fullerton will remember him, yes a little weird, but sweet, childlike and harmless. It seems that if you live in Fullerton and have any of those attributes, and are “displaced” then you deserve death.
OMG! That is horrible! I am not going to visit Fullerton,CA or even move there.Everyone should find a way to move out.Kudos to the bus driver,the person taking the video,and anyone else involved with trying to settle this matter,including you for writing this up and sharing it.
Thank you
Rather disturbing.
Thank you to the editor for writing this story and voicing the terrible beating. It is hard to read it ith out tearing up.
Please keep this story alive dont let the public forget about Kelly Thomas and what those men of badge did to him. I will not call them officers for they are not the moment they laid their weapons on Kelly Thomas. An Officer is to protect these guys did not they where like dogs on a cat. I hope and pray that Kelly Thomas family will get justice and peace. Thank you for doing this story even when the attorneys letter came for a retraction.
Please keep me posted
I have a son that has schizophrenia and this is one of my fears. When they are on the run from the treatments of schizophrenia and think there is nothing wrong with them, they search every where. My son goes to find a time machine and my heart is in my gut when he runs and starts to wander. Most of the drugs don’t work very well and he is quite “strange”. My hope is the public officials would pick him up and take him to get help……not dislike him so much because of a fear of an illiness and literally beat him to death.
I’d love to stand up with this father, one that has lost his son and from a mother whose fear is exactly this and educate this world, educate the cops, educate the courts.
Lee Tinnin, Tucson AZ
My husband and I are homeless and park our car, which we live in, in Fullerton. I must say, generally Fullerton is a fairly safe place to be, if you are homeless, better than Santa Ana ( south of Fullerton ), or Anaheim ( where a friend of mine was beaten an falsely arrested twice by Mexican-hating cops ). However, we have been harrassed by cops in Fullerton, for parking our car and sleeping in it Maybe some of the cops involved with the beating. Also, as a student as Fullerton Community College, I have suffered discrimination because I am older and poor. People lied about me and abused me
to continue.. Fullerton Community College staff, students and especially those in student government passed lies about me, in order to get me removed from my position in student government, because–I believe– certain power people were so disgusted that a poor, older woman who looked homeless had any position in student government. There was even a man staff member who wrote in the campus newspaper–The Hornet–that every time she saw Dana Rose Crystal involved in a student government event, she “cringes.” Then-FC President Kathleen Hodge despised me, I believe, for dressing so shabbily. The lies about me were horrific–they actually passed lies that I was going to shoot people with a gun or blow up the school with a bomb. So call the FBI if you really think that is true, not just allow these lies to swirl around, and then to punish me as if it were true/ BTW, the school did nothing about cyber bullies on My Space Fullerton College forum who tormented me and others. BTW, three of the guys were students in the Fullerton College police academy, and at least one graduated in 2009. By the various screen names of Shepard/Catalyst/Corey Wardrop, this scum could easily have been a homeless basher
It is horrifying to think that because a human being suffers from mental illness that a police force feels they can get away with murder. As a grown mentally intact person, it probably would have been impossible to escape that situation alive as well. However if our own police, who should be there to protect us, even from ourselves if needed, can not see the human value in those that may be weaker, either mentally or physically, it a very sad day indeed. They should all be charged with murder. Those who were there should have the courage to speak out as witnesses to help defend this poor man in death who could not defend himself in life.
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Just incase anyone would like to write to the murderers’ lawyers.
Perfect. They get the lowest grunt on the pole to write their ‘cease and desist’ letter. Screw them… They are getting paid by the “lieyers”. Do you mean to tell me there is NO ONE in the Fullerton Police Department, or elsewhere in the city administration who has the cajones to stand up and make this right? Are you all seriously that afraid for your jobs? You all gag me. Thank GOD I don’t have to live in Fulerton, CA. Go ahead, rot in your filth.
I lived in Compton during the Rodney King beating… needles to say the aftermath reaction was not pretty. But you know what? Maybe thats how we should have reacted, maybe the Fullerton P.D. would like that, maybe that will make them take this case more seriously.
first of all you people should get a life had kelly thomas assaulted an officer you and your thug defendants would be screaming and the fact that your thug defendants and your council are allowed to deginerate kelly thomas with slander
yours r s w johnson
by the way im from australia and i watch the american police all the time and its a shame that some police make it bad for all police i like america and i like its people but what your police are doing now is starting here and we will not let this happen
this made me cry