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Title: This just makes my blood boil! Angry! Sad! Depressed!
Post by gorda on Jan 14^th, 2014 at 1:36am

Kelly Thomas, was a homeless mentally ill man who was beaten and killed by a group of Fullerton police officers. Two of those officers were acquitted in court today.

I don't understand. Any rational human being who views the video footage can clearly see that the officers abused their power!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6yaeD-E_MY

P.S. Ironically, Kelly Thomas' father is a retired police officer, and he is now suing the Fullerton Police Department for the death of his son.

What I don't understand is if he really loved his son, how could he allow him to be homeless and hungry. Why not bring him home? Clean him up? Feed him? Try to get him the medical help he needed? Some counseling. There is no cure for schizophrenia, but with proper treatment many patients have gone on to live happy productive lives.

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Post by Bingo on Jan 14^th, 2014 at 9:47am

Who was the god damn jury? Cops wives and children? Very sad.

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Post by AngieBlue on Jan 14^th, 2014 at 1:49pm

This case makes me ill as well. Unfortunately with our jury system a juror has to have either not heard of the case or not read/heard enough about the case to form an opinion prior to being placed on the jury. In high profile cases, and this is just the latest example of this, it is nearly impossible to find truly qualified jurors who haven't heard enough about the case to form an opinion. So the pool gets narrowed down to folks who can't be bothered learning about what goes on in the world around them - at least what is beyond their own nose.

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Post by gimmekeef on Jan 14^th, 2014 at 2:29pm

Having previous knowledge should not over rule someone exercising sound judgment and deciding based on the facts as presented. Why people abdicate that critical responsibility is beyond me.

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Post by LanternHigh on Jan 15^th, 2014 at 4:11am

I ain't American and can't understand why can happens this there. Ditto as above, it is beyond me as well :(

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Post by munichhilton on Jan 15^th, 2014 at 9:20am

AngieBlue wrote on Jan 14^th, 2014 at 1:49pm:

Or worse...we leave our jurisprudence up to the portion of the populace that hasn't heard of email, doesn't know what an internet is and thinks television news is a passing fad...

Soon we will have to rely on Amish pre teens to hand down our death sentences...

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Post by Pdog on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 8:16am

this far more common in the USA then you hear in the media…