Absolutely disgusting. Fullerton California cops blatantly threatened Kelly Thomas before proceeding to beat him to death, and their lawyers are blaming Thomas for his own death. Attorney John Barnett...portrayed victim Kelly Thomas as a menacing physical specimen who scared a large group of towering, fully-armed, veteran cops that chased, surrounded, punched, kicked, restrained, clubbed and shot Taser blasts into the homeless mans relatively small frame for five minutes. In his part of the courtroom theater, Cicinelli defense lawyer Michael Schwartz admitted cops used force on Thomas but, despite him falling silent during the attack and lying in a huge pool of his own blood, he was medically fine when EMTs put him into an ambulance. Schwartz also argued that gruesome hospital photographs of Thomas have given the false impression that police were brutal when, he insists, most of the external damage was simply bruising... ...Schwartz is asking jurors to declare that Thomas killed himself and police, his close companions during his final minutes alive, neither contributed to the death nor committed any criminal acts. His line--delivered without cracking a smile--was that an overexerting, 37-year-old Thomas beat himself to death by struggling with concerned, compassionate officers. His heart couldnt take it, said Schwartz. He later added, A tragedy? Yes. A crime? No. Sometimes tragedies happen in this world.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 09:30:02 +0000
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