CNN reports the police chief says there is no cover up in the fatal police beating of Kelly Thomas and the police reviewed video of the beating before producing their final story.
I previously reported on the police tasering and beating a hog-tied homeless man to death.
Video footage of 6 Fullerton, CA police officers tasering and beating a homeless man to death exposes a cover up that local officials refuse to answer questions about.
Shocking: This picture shows the extent of the injuries Thomas received after being beaten up by six police officers
The photo above shows the injuries sustained by Kelly Thomas, homeless man described as a gentle and mentally-ill man, who was the victim of a police beating by 6 Fullerton police officers.
Corporate news coverage of the event downplays the prospect of police brutality or foul play in the incident.
ABC video report on the eyewitness statements and recently a released video of the beating captured by a bystander, both attached to this page below, contradict the official story of the incident given by the police.
The LA Times report on the incident, however, echoes the official police story failing to report within the article itself the claims from eyewitnesses.
As shown in the ABC video below, witnesses report that the man was not resisting arrest. They tell ABC he was actually knocked unconscious while the police continued to beat him and scream at him to stop resisting.
Watch: ABC News – Man Beat to Death by Fullerton Police Wasn’t Resisting, Says Witness
A witness describes the police beating given to Kelly Thomas, which resulted in his death. “They kept beating him and beating him and tasering him. I could hear him zzzzt. zzzzt. zzzt. And he wasn’t even moving. He had one arm in front of him like this. He wasn’t resisting. And they kept telling him ‘he’s resisting, he’s resisting. Quit resisting.’ and he wasn’t resisting.
In the video footage of the actually beating, which just released, you can hear the mentally ill man screaming for his dad before he is knocked unconscious and put into a 5 day long coma before he eventually died in the local hospital.
Watch: Police Beating of Kelly Thomas in Fullerton, CA
Kelly Thomas, a homeless man, was beaten into a coma by the Fullerton police during an arrest on July 5, 2011. Kelly died several days later.
In the background you can hear the victim, who was mentally ill, screaming “Dad! Dad! Dad!”
According to a report on The Daily Mail, the Fullerton police department originally claimed that two officers sustained broken bone injuries during the “fight”. The statement was then later retracted saying the officers only suffered “soft-tissue” damage after they were given a demand to provide documentation that officer’s bones were broken during the incident.
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CNN is now reporting that the investigation is treating the incident like a cover up never occurred at all.
In face the police who wrote up a report on the incident were allowed to view the video of them beating the man before they produced their final story about the events that occurred that night.
Kelly Thomas Beating Before And After Being Beat To Death While Hog Tied By 6 Police Officers
Watch: Cops That Murdered Kelly Thomas Were Allowed To Review Video Before Writing Report!
In the first 4 minutes of the video:
- Police have hired an independent consultant to review the events surrounding the mans beating – but only after the man’s family filed a complaint against the city.
- Witnesses say the man was tasered multiple times, hog tied face down, face smashed against concrete, his head slammed with a flashlight by 6 police officers.
- Thomas died from his injuries 5 days later.
- Thomas’ death has ignited protests ever since and has become the center of a local and federal investigation.
- Residents have started a petition to recall 3 city council members and the mayor.
- City councilman Pat McKinley told CNN he personally hired all of the officers involved.
- 6 officers involved in beating are on PAID administrative leave.
- Police chief took paid medical leave starting last week as calls for his resignation grew.
- The acting police chief, Kevin Hamilton, says there was no cover up and the police department is cooperating.
- Hamilton says there is a notion out there that the department will try to cover things up, or try to influence the outcome of the investigation, but promises that is not going to happen and if the officers are found culpable they will be held accountable.
- However, the Los Angeles Times reports that the police were allowed to write a report of the final version of events after being allowed to watch the video of the beating of the man to death [EG, they knew what the video proved and did not have to admit to anything else beside what is provable in the video] and that is just one of the things the independent investigator will be looking into.
- Much more…