Uniformed Police Beat Unarmed Homeless Man To Death, Found Not Guilty (Disturbing Images / Footage)
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[img]http://www.policestateusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/KellyThomas.jpg[/img]
[quote]FULLERTON, CA — In 2011, a group of police officers brutally beat an unarmed homeless man to death on a street corner with clubs, fists, and repeated electric shocks. The story got national attention when the video of the attack showed the mentally ill man wailed for his father as police bludgeoned him mercilessly. The story reached its heartbreaking conclusion when a jury announced that the police officers who had been charged with his death would all walk away as free men. The frustrating story shows that even in the rare instances when police officers face criminal charges for their brutality, their position of power makes it incredibly easy for them to get away with murder. The only objection the Fullerton Police Department had with the behavior of their officers was their use of profanity.[/quote]
A visual summary of Kelly Thomas' last words while being beaten to death by police officers, they were found not guilty
[img]http://i.imgur.com/dNXOvij.jpg[/img]
Video of incident, starts around 14:30 (DISTURBING FOOTAGE):
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6IntxCA3sA[/media]
despicable cretins
I find the fact they're declared not guilty far more disturbing than the act itself to be honest. Any human in a position of power will eventually abuse it and what prevents them from doing it is normally the fact they can't get away with it. These guys got away with it, guarantee you they're gonna do it again sooner or later.
There was already a thread on this a few days ago.
How exactly did they get away with it?
Cops in America really can get away with anything.
I know someone's inevitably going to say "it's a few bad apples". Don't. It's not. This happens all the time, when it should [B]never [/B]happen. When you're put in a position to protect the community and are given a weapon and the license to use deadly force, there should be no exceptions, no leeway, no pardons.
The police has to uphold a standard for the rest of the community. There can't be [I]any[/I] "bad apples".
[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;43557422]There was already a thread on this a few days ago.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for posting.
disgusting that one of the cop guys who beat him down laughs in the end and jokes around. they even understand that they did some serious damage yet it doesn't really show that they think they did wrong. pretty fucked up, hope these cops get sentenced
what the fuck
Apparently 3 of them got sentenced
Edit -
Woops I am the king of bad reading the article I found
I remember reading something like this back in 2011.
Then I had to check the date, and I was right. This happened in 2011, and there was a massive fucking thread about it.
[QUOTE=Laferio;43557697]I remember reading something like this back in 2011.
Then I had to check the date, and I was right. This happened in 2011, and there was a massive fucking thread about it.[/QUOTE]
They've only just reached a verdict.
I can't tell, there's no source.
cmon gustafa get your shit together
I don't blame the officers, just the first one who was being a right proper cunt at the start. The other officers only see the guy get up and get confrontational then try and take off, and the guy was resisting the entire fucking time so of course he was going to get roughed up. It does take a lot of officers and effort to get handcuffs on a guy resisting
Personally I would find all the officers not guilty except for the one that was putting on gloves at the start, he was the one at fault, and it instigated the entire incident
I'm really sad that this article is real; I can only imagine the reasoning these cops came up with.
This is like drone pilots becoming desensitized to human death because they control war machines from the comfort of an xbox 360 controller; these cops have become desensitized as well.
Forget about their badges in court. Treat them as exactly what they are: three pieces of trash who beat a homeless man to death for no reason. Any civilian who did that would get a hefty prison sentence and I honestly do not see why a cop should get any different.
I gagged hard at that second picture.
[QUOTE=confinedUser;43557778]cmon gustafa get your shit together[/QUOTE]
IM SORRY MAN
[editline]16th January 2014[/editline]
Sauces
[url]http://ktla.com/2014/01/15/ex-officer-acquitted-in-kelly-thomas-death-wants-his-job-back/#axzz2qZoNu3Ok[/url]
[url]http://www.policestateusa.com/2014/kelly-thomas/[/url]
Anyone here studying law or something similar, that can explain this clusterfuck?
How is that cop not behind bars? How is he immune to law?
[quote=KTLA.com]Both officers were terminated by the Fullerton Police Department after Thomas’ death, [b]which was caused by asphyxia due to chest compression and injuries to the head and chest during the struggle[/b] on July 5, 2011, according to a coroner’s report.[/quote]
The fact we can see how blatantly guilty they are and a judge clearly cannot is truly shocking.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;43557783]I don't blame the officers, just the first one who was being a right proper cunt at the start. The other officers only see the guy get up and get confrontational then try and take off, and the guy was resisting the entire fucking time so of course he was going to get roughed up. It does take a lot of officers and effort to get handcuffs on a guy resisting
Personally I would find all the officers not guilty except for the one that was putting on gloves at the start, he was the one at fault, and it instigated the entire incident[/QUOTE]
A man fucking died. And not just because of the first guy harassing him, but because he was ganged up on by an entire group of cops, and you're trying to downplay that?
They're all guilty. Every single one of them. They didn't "rough him up", he [b]died.[/b]
[QUOTE=booster;43557856]Anyone here studying law or something similar, that can explain this clusterfuck?
How is that cop not behind bars? How is he immune to law?[/QUOTE]
Because police are allowed to use the force they deem necessary to place someone under arrest depending on the circumstances. This guy got up and a bit physical after he got fed up of the first cop being abusive and wrong (This is why I think the first cop putting on gloves should be the only one prosecuted here) Then he took off running. The other officers aren't right there yet, and can't hear what the first officer is saying. They only see the guy get up and a bit physical with the officer, then see him take off. Then while trying to put the cuffs on him, he's resisting and fighting the whole way, which is why he's getting the beating during the arrest. Once they got control they stopped
This is probably why they all got off, and with the exception of the first officer I think they shouldn't be convicted of murder, and the first one should be facing Manslaughter charges instead, anyway.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;43557783]I don't blame the officers, just the first one who was being a right proper cunt at the start. The other officers only see the guy get up and get confrontational then try and take off, and the guy was resisting the entire fucking time so of course he was going to get roughed up. It does take a lot of officers and effort to get handcuffs on a guy resisting
Personally I would find all the officers not guilty except for the one that was putting on gloves at the start, he was the one at fault, and it instigated the entire incident[/QUOTE]
It's hard to not resist when you're being beaten to death, it's the body's natural response to pain/life being threatened.
[QUOTE=booster;43557856]Anyone here studying law or something similar, that can explain this clusterfuck?
How is that cop not behind bars? How is he immune to law?[/QUOTE]
If a jury finds a defendant not guilty, they get to walk. The most likely scenario is that the jury knows something about what happened that the public never will. It's how the system works.
[QUOTE=Melnek;43557886]A man fucking died. And not just because of the first guy harassing him, but because he was ganged up on by an entire group of cops, and you're trying to downplay that?
They're all guilty. Every single one of them. They didn't "rough him up", he [b]died.[/b][/QUOTE]
Because we're going by what the law says. The law allows officers to use force against people who resist, plain and simple, and the only real non blurry line in that is if the suspect is restrained in cuffs or not. They didn't beat the shit out of him after they had control of him. This is why I say the only officer at fault here is the one you see putting on gloves, because he instigated the entire incident illegally, using threats of attack. You can't blame the other officers who then show up after seeing the guy try and flee for trying to put the guy under arrest
You may disagree and think it's a shit deal, and it is, but that's the way it is
[QUOTE=TheTalon;43557948]Because we're going by what the law says. The law allows officers to use force against people who resist, plain and simple, and the only real non blurry line in that is if the suspect is restrained in cuffs or not. They didn't beat the shit out of him after they had control of him. This is why I say the only officer at fault here is the one you see putting on gloves, because he instigated the entire incident illegally. You can't blame the other officers who then show up after seeing the guy try and flee for trying to put the guy under arrest[/QUOTE]
Have you even read the articles about what really happened? There's force, and then there's pulverizing someones face with the bottom of a tazer.
How can you possibly justify the amount of force on an unarmed man required to draw THIS much blood...
[img]http://www.policestateusa.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/KellyThomas3.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Gustafa;43557962]Have you even read the articles about what really happened?[/QUOTE]
I watched the fucking video
[QUOTE=TheTalon;43557948]Because we're going by what the law says. The law allows officers to use force against people who resist, plain and simple, and the only real non blurry line in that is if the suspect is restrained in cuffs or not. [B]They didn't beat the shit out of him after they had control of him.[/B] This is why I say the only officer at fault here is the one you see putting on gloves, because he instigated the entire incident illegally, using threats of attack. You can't blame the other officers who then show up after seeing the guy try and flee for trying to put the guy under arrest
You may disagree and think it's a shit deal, and it is, but that's the way it is[/QUOTE]
Which explains the injuries and the fact he died from them.
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