MY BOYFRIEND.
alittlebitofeverythingglorious:
On July 5th, 2011, Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill homeless man was beaten into a coma by Fullerton City Police. Five days after the beating, he was pronounced dead. This video of the atrocious scene was released just recently. I am beyond disgusted.
The city surveillance video that shows a group of Fullerton police officers beating a homeless mentally ill man to death last year was finally released today, laying to rest any argument that Kelly Thomas was a threat to officers.
The shocking video, which was combined with an audio recorder worn by one of the police officers on the night of July 5, 2011, was shown in court today, then later released to the media.
“Now you see my fists?” Fullerton police officer Manny Ramos asked Thomas while slipping on a pair of latex gloves.
“Yeah, what about them?” Thomas responded.
“They are getting ready to fuck you up,” said Ramos, a burly cop who appears to outweigh Thomas by 100 pounds.
“Well, start punching,” Thomas responds, never once displaying any physical aggression towards Ramos.
Moments later, as Thomas is standing while Ramos is ordering him to get on his “fucking knees,” Fullerton cop Joseph Wolfe, who is not charged in the case, walks up and starts beating his legs with a baton.
Then Ramos gets into the act and Thomas takes off running, moving out of the frame of the camera.
The cops keep telling him to put his hands behind his back and lay on his stomach, but they are both laying on top of him, making it impossible to even breathe, much less move.
The camera, operated by a dispatcher at the station, then moves toward the beating, showing Ramos and Fullerton cop Jay Cicinelli on top of Thomas as Thomas repeatedly apologizes and telling them he is unable to breathe.
As the video continues, one of the cops can be seen kneeing him.
“Please, I can’t breathe,” Thomas pleads as the officers keep telling him to put his hands behind his “fucking back.”
The cops keep telling him to “relax” to which he responds, “I can’t, dude.”
More cops eventually arrive and a little more than four minutes into the video, they start tasing him.
And a little after five minutes into the video, as three cops are piled on top of him, beating him, tasing him, one cop looks up at another cop who just arrived on the scene and says, “help us.”
At one point he yells out, “Dad, they are killing me.”
Even after seven minutes into the video, when six cops are on top of him and all Thomas is doing is crying for his father, they keep telling him to “relax.”
Last year, Ron Thomas, a retired Orange County Sheriff’s deputy, said the City of Fullerton offered him $900,000 to just go away, which would have allowed the two cops to remain on the force unpunished for killing his son.
Thomas was pronounced dead on July 10, five days after the beating that left him in a coma.
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this makes me fucking sick.
All cops are scum.
i hope they are happy? they can go burn in hell
THIS IS WHY I FUCKING HATE PEOPLE.
Im really praying that this whole college thing works out.
I hate not knowing whats going to happen next. I hate knowing that there’s a huge chance that this could all be taken away from me really soon. I just dont know what i did wrong for all of this to be happening. This has been my dream for as long as i can remember and ive worked so hard, but now that could all go to waste. Its so hard not to stress out and worry.
I just have to keep reminding myself that God is good. And he will never steer me into the wrong path.
8 month old baby hearing his mother’s voice for the first time with cochlear implant
This is the most beautiful thing ever.
thank you science
So many feels, brb crying
This is one of the most wonderful things I’ve ever seen.
Sooo freaking cute omggg
I don’t know how I can be so ambitious and so lazy at the same time.
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Its lookin like no prom for me right now,
I hate how senior year and college is so expensive. Oh well :/
I should be happy, but I feel more confused than ever.
A part of me wants to stay in my comfort zone and make a safe choice, but a big part of me feels like if I do take that route, I would be settling for less and won’t even be attempting to live up to my potential. And it doesn’t help that I have so many people constantly trying to sway me in totally opposite directions. I just don’t know where to go from here. I can’t win. It upsets me to know that whatever I choose, I’m going to disappoint someone.
These next couple of weeks are going to be interesting. I just need to spend some time alone and just think everything through. Because in the end, this should be my choice and my choice only.
