This interview has been greatly condensed here and a more detailed interview will be released at a later date.
The points being made here were that the officer’s actions appeared to make no sense and that an alleged innocent man who is, by the way, an epileptic, was for apparently absolutely no reason, allegedly accosted, downed and repeatedly tased in front of his two young children. It took place on, of all days, MLK day. this man referred to in the video by his fiance, who is African American, didn’t have the MLK day off and was actually cleaning up graffiti for his employer-covering up black painted graffiti a white fence with white spray paint. Does an fleeing robbery suspect hang out in plain view on a public street covering up graffiti? So at Fullerton City Hall tonight more very troubling allegations against our FPD. Can they live up to their phony PR press for one whole month without allegedly misbehaving?
I couldn’t believe that Fullerton Stories Davis Barber walked right past this woman on out the door as we were interviewing her. He apparently had no interest in the unfortunate alleged attack by yet another out of control FPD officer and covering this story. I didn’t see anyone from the Register or the Fullerton Observer express interest in this woman’s story either.
What was described at council was a sadistic cop getting his jollies by tasering a black man while he was working on private property on ML King, Jr Day. You must be so very proud Dan. Another one of your disciples running amuck against law abiding citizens.
Maybe the Chamber of Commerce can highlight this incident as a way to attract more minority businesses here in Fullerton. But it is one more way to put another nail in the health of our city.
Apparently another sick, sadistic person that our FPD has handed over a gun and a shield to while Danny boy allows them to do just about anything.
Wake up Fullerton. If any private citizen did half the things that our Fullerton police have been accused of on an all too frequent basis, they all would be locked up for many, many years.
Tasers are not the ‘non-lethal‘ weapons they are portrayed to be, by the way. This man could have been killed when the taser was repeatedly applied. You simply don’t do this to someone with a seizure disorder.
I noted that Danny is now afraid to sit in his previously everyday seat at council meetings. Our transparent police chief cannot even face the public for the limited time of 30 minutes imposed by our new so called “conservative” Mayor Sebourn. Gee continuing all the presentations and imposing a 30 minute maximum for the public, seems a lot like Mayor Chaffee all over again.
Televised murder of a homeless man, threats of grave bodily harm to protesters in custody, sexual predators in uniform, sticky fingered coppers, no one managing the sexual predators in Fullerton, the recent frame up attempt of Barry Levinson, alleged informant harrassment , and now some kingdom day love from one of Danny boy’s boys?
I guess we will see if the dash cam picked any of this up, if the body cameras were rolling, if the DAR’s were turned on and what the heck is wrong with all these men in black in this crazy town we all call home. Thank God this man will be ok, and his kids will get to see their daddy again. Kelly Thomas and Dean Gochenour sadly, weren’t so fortunate. Folks, the FPD’s reign of terror must come to an end now.
#1 by Barry Levinson on January 21, 2015 - 1:38 am
Another huge blow was handed to Dan Hughes’ FPD last night. as their already very tarnished reputation, took another hit.
An Afro-American woman, Ms. Tamika Johnson, during public comments claimed that her fiancee was tased several times by a FPD officer multiple times without justification. He was working at his job as a maintenance man removing graffiti on private property when a FPD officer arrived at the location. When he asked why he was being detained the officer allegedly gave him no reason. This horrible incident as alleged took place on ML King Jr. holiday. Coincidence maybe. We really do not know what motivated this officer to allegedly attack this Afro-Amercian man. Lieutenant Scott Rudisil of the Traffic Bureau, who was sitting in for Dan Hughes at council chose not to respond to this woman’s very serious complaint. Dan Hughes who I saw lingering in the lobby of City Hall a few minutes after this woman reported this alleged crime by a FPD police officer, also did not feel compelled to respond either or talk to this lady as did Joe Imbriano in the same lobby. If you are sworn to serve and protect, shouldn’t at least one of them state that they were concerned about this alleged officer’s behavior and would look into it immediately.
But that only happens when you have a police department that actually cares about doing the right thing. There silence was almost as shocking as the details of the alleged incident itself.
The only real question left to ask is the following: When will a majority of Fullertonians realize that the FPD has not been reformed and still needs a major overhaul for the protection of all good people of Fullerton?
#2 by Mark Powell on January 21, 2015 - 1:45 pm
If the residents of Fullerton believe for one minute that this sort of behavior seen in the accompanying video doesn’t still exist within the Fullerton police department, than I can only wonder what they have to gain by choosing to look the other way?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8qTRbrC6ws