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 The FPD as a Criminal Enterprise on January 22, 2015 - 8:58 pm
FPD’s Scott Rudisil listening to Tamika Johnson’s claim that her fiancé was wrongfully abused by a fellow Fullerton police officer when he inappropriately used a taser gun multiple times against an epileptic and he has nothing to say to that woman. Obviously he could not speak about the specifics to Ms. Johnson but he could have demonstrated that he is a human being by showing some concern. I guess he like too many in the FPD need more training to learn how to act like a human being. Guess what if you have lived more than half of your life and you do not know how to do that, no amount of training will help.
The very same comments also applies to Police Chief Dan Hughes who had multiple opportunities to approach Ms. Johnson when they both were in the lobby of city hall after she delivered her remarks. Apparently the chief was not interested in talking with her. If I were the chief of police and heard that one of my officers allegedly used excessive force, I would be very, very concerned and want to get to the bottom of this very quickly. But Police Chief Hughes apparently could not be bothered.
You know what Rudisil and Hughes do care about is making sure that their PR machine gets into high gear to protect and serve not the public’s interests but their own interests. Pathetic.
#2 by Joe Imbriano on January 23, 2015 - 7:09 am
Like an earlier comment stated, “the department is run by Evangelicals”.
#3 by Anonymous on January 23, 2015 - 12:11 pm
There hasn’t been one peep of this incident anywhere besides here. That is why they are not saying a word. They just want to sweep it under the rug like everything else. So sad.