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Originally posted by kro32
reply to post by Nkinga
How about waiting for all the information to come out. So many people on this site are ready to believe anything before they have the whole story it really amazes me sometimes how you guys are so spoonfed. Get all the facts than make up your own mind about what was justified or not.
No need to be sheep and follow the crowd.
Originally posted by kro32
reply to post by Backslider
Because they haven't released any information yet. I agree I don't see how the police will be able to get out of this one as it's reminiscent of the Rodney King pictures but I still don't make calls without seeing evidence and making up my own mind.
Neither should any of you.
Originally posted by caladonea
reply to post by Nkinga
I feel very upset and my heart goes out to the young man that died and those who love him.
I live in Seattle, WA and we have had some problems of a similar sort here. Here is an article on an investigation that happened. The FBI got involved.
www.komonews.com...
Originally posted by Nkinga
reply to post by Nkinga
Here is more on it, someone has apparently made a website about this whole thing..
www.fullertonsfuture.org...
Be sure to read the whole thing...it appears the photo they put out saying it was Kelly Thomas...was not Kelly Thomas at all....they put out a fake picture (or rather, it is a picture of an actual person, just not the person they are claiming it to be) Kelly had red hair, small nose, and was much much younger.edit on 27-7-2011 by Nkinga because: (no reason given)
This image was included in a story at Fullerton Stories here and purports to be a 2009 police booking photo of recent Fullerton homicide victim Kelly Thomas that was, presumably, provided by the ever helpful FPD spokehole Andrew Goodrich. Well, this is certainly a scary looking dude: pretty buff and mangy, and sufficiently angry-looking to scare the good folks of Fullerton right back into complacency about the homicide of a mentally-ill homeless man.
The only trouble is that it isn’t Kelly Thomas at all. His parents say this isn’t their son. But we don’t need their expert opinion. Apart from a large nose that is completely different from every other picture of Thomas, Kelly’s hair was flaming red, a simple fact illustrated in every other picture of him in the Fullerton Stories piece.
So what gives? Is this just a cheapjack trick by Goodrich & Co. to degrade the victim by presenting Kelly Thomas as a surly, muscular threat to Fullerton’s delicate residents? If so, the Fullerton Police Department has actually hit a new low, and given recent events that’s pretty goddam hard for them to do. But it’s just when you think you’ve hit the FPD basement you find out there are even lower levels.
I will await a comical explanation from the Good Sergeant Goodrich, but of course I won’t be holding my breath.
Originally posted by gabby2011
Originally posted by kro32
reply to post by Backslider
Because they haven't released any information yet. I agree I don't see how the police will be able to get out of this one as it's reminiscent of the Rodney King pictures but I still don't make calls without seeing evidence and making up my own mind.
Neither should any of you.
The evidence is pretty much in the video and pics...I don't appreciate you telling me how I should see things.. ... this was a classic case of police brutality. Had this been one of your children...would you wait till the trial was fully over before coming to any conclusions?
Originally posted by Nkinga
reply to post by kro32
Kro32, I'm usually not one to get upset with people who have their own opinions. But as far as I can see you are not bringing anything useful at all to the conversation. I can see if he had a gun, a weapon, etc...great..he resisted arrest, great..he struggle against them..Great..he may have even fought against them...the fact remains..IT. DOES. NOT. MATTER. Doesn't matter one iota! in fact? I DON'T CARE! don't care if he resisted, don't care if he fought against them.....the fact is, it took six men to get him down..that I can overlook...but after he was down, and cuffed, those 6 men continued to beat and taser him. So, think about it..he's down on the ground, on his stomach, he is then cuffed. He is then unable to move. Yet, is continued to be beaten and tasered. You obviously have no common sense.