Originally Posted by Faint
Sometimes reading the entire thing helps,
"Two officers were suspended shortly after the attack but police will not confirm if it was related to the 37-year-old's death."
Pretty fucked up honestly, considering they are saying beating him to a bloody pulp wasn't the cause of his death, and it was related to his illness. He went into a coma and died a few days after. He would more than likely still be with us if nothing happened that night.
"Fullerton police Sgt Andrew Goodrich said that Thomas began to fight officers as they tried to search him.
He said: 'We don't know why he was so combative and resistant to the officers, but it took upwards of five to six officers to subdue him.'"
Firstly, that guy is a fucking moron. Obviously the guy had mental illnesses, and if his illness was so bad that he was resisting like that, they should have known right off the bat that he was sick. It definitely had something to do with the officers, and I don't care what anyone else says, that shit was pure bullying and those guys need to serve time. I mean come on, the victim died over something with could have been very minor in a lot of cases.
"He said police are conducting an internal investigation into the officers' actions and the District Attorney's Office is conducting a criminal investigation."
I'm glad about this, at least. Hopefully some justice will be done. I have a few friends I've met online who are cops in real life, and they have told me about stuff like this happening where a cop just decided to abuse his power and go out of control.
Aside from that, this happens everyday, mostly it's just not that bad. Sad story though
It couldn't have been an illness. If any you guys look at his face afterwards, I can't see that he died from an illness.
TP|Guardians| Hai. Watz upz.
Originally Posted by SoBscout
It couldn't have been an illness. If any you guys look at his face afterwards, I can't see that he died from an illness.
Exactly, but the article said that the only thing the officers would say is that he didn't die from their beatings and the only other possible way he could of suffered that much damage and gone into a coma was because of his mental illness. Obviously he would still be here today homeless on the streets if those cops hadn't caused so much trouble.
Now saying that, you already can see that these cops feel bad for what they did, and probably didn't realize what they were doing at the time. These guys were most likely bored, wanted some action, and chose the wrong person to mess with. They said he was resisting, and yes, people with mental illnesses don't know exactly what is happening all the time like humans so it was an instinctive reaction in their mindset to fight back which he stopped doing more than likely after the first taze was finished. Now if you guys read, the guy's father was actually a Deputy Sherriff. In the article, which came from an interview, he said he actually regrets being part of law enforcement and is handing out fliers to stop this stuff all around the place where his son was beaten and tazed.
He said "All we have left of our son is the blood in the gutter."
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