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While stopping Kelly Thomas on suspicion of car burglary police brutally beat and taser him until he looses consciousness. He never regains it. Police would not reveal if they had tasered him.
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Ron Thomas, Kelly Thomas’s father, speaks to ABC 7 saying, “They’ve murdered my son.” ABC reports officers received broken bones from the altercation. FullertonsFuture.org starts blogging the story.
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Police Chief Sellers says, “We’ve got nothing to hide”, when questioned about the incident at a city council meeting.
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FullertonsFuture interview with witness Mark Turgeon reveals that the incident may have been videoed by a bystander and that the recording was confiscated by the police.
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FullertonsFuture receives a letter from an attorney representing the Fullerton Police Officers Association demanding that the admin remove all defamatory remarks from the web site or suffer “all appropriate legal actions against you”. It goes on to say that the site did not get it’s information from reliable sources.
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Council Member Bruce Whitaker writes an open letter demanding a factual account of what happened to Kelly Thomas including the release of any related video or audio recordings. Two council members, Dick Jones and Pat McKinley disagree as reported on FullertonsStories.com.
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We report in the Fullertonian that officers had never received broken bones from the altercation with Kelly Thomas, but only “soft tissue damage”.
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Eyewitness Mark Turgeon reports that he had still not been contacted by the District Attorney’s office who was handling the case at the behest of Fullerton PD.
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After a month of almost total inaction on the case of his son’s death Ron Thomas is compelled to release the photo of his beaten son lying, brain-dead, in a hospital bead. FullertonsFuture.org publishes the photo on their web site.
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FullertonsFuture posts cell phone video they acquired showing witness reaction to the beating as it happens. In the background you can hear Kelly Thomas screaming for his father, his last act.
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The FBI launches a formal investigation into the beating.
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Council Member Sharon Quirk-Silva asks the DA to release the video.
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OCTA releases video of detailed witness accounts of the incident.
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ABC 7 still reports bones broken.