Homeless man described as “gentle” beaten to death by police (Video) (Photos)
Kelly Thomas, described as a “loving” and “gentle” soul, was accosted by Fullerton, California, police on July 5 after they had received reports of cars being vandalized at the local bus station.
Police claim that Thomas resisted arrest, although an eyewitness to the event tells a different story:
They kept beating him and Tasering him. I could hear zapping, and he wasn’t even moving. He had one arm in front of him like this, he wasn’t resisting. And they kept telling him, ‘He’s resisting, quit resisting,’ and he wasn’t resisting.By the time police were finished with him, Thomas had been injured so severely that he was taken to a hospital and placed on life support. He died of his injuries several days later.
Kelly Thomas
Photo credit:
The Blaze.com
Thomas’s parents, who survive him, recall him as “very loving, very kind.” His father, a former sheriff’s deputy, insists moreover that his son was not violent, and maintains that “a gang of rogue officers … brutally beat my son to death.”
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