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Kelly Thomas Beating Aftermath

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    The Aftermath

  • The Tragic Event

    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.

  • News Breaks

    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.

  • Chief Sellers: Nothing to Hide

    Police Chief Sellers says, “We’ve got nothing to hide”, when questioned about the incident at a city council meeting.

  • Eyewitness Emerges

    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.

  • Quiet or else...

    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.

  • Whitaker's Letter

    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.

  • Bones Not Broken

    We report in the Fullertonian that officers had never received broken bones from the altercation with Kelly Thomas, but only “soft tissue damage”.

  • DA No Contact

    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.

  • Deathbed Photo Released

    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.

  • Bus Platform Video Released

    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.

  • FBI Launches Investigation

    The FBI launches a formal investigation into the beating.

  • Quirk-Silva Asks for Video

    Council Member Sharon Quirk-Silva asks the DA to release the video.

  • OCTA Video

    OCTA releases video of detailed witness accounts of the incident.

  • ABC Reports Bones Broken

    ABC 7 still reports bones broken.