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 Anonymous on January 21, 2015 - 5:32 pm
Sharon Quirk Silva did more for Fullerton and was smarter than her four fellow council members combined.
Good for Greg Sebourn for having some class and doing the right thing.
#2 by The ghost of integrity, decency and honesty on January 21, 2015 - 10:37 pm
That is telling them Anonymous. A blanket declaration without providing one shred of information to back it up.
#3 by Mark Powell on January 22, 2015 - 12:38 am
IMHO, Sharon Quirk was a shill for the public employees unions, including the police and fire departments in Fullerton, nothing more, nothing less.
http://docs.cityoffullerton.com/WebLink8/DocView.aspx?id=300589&dbid=1
#4 by Mark Powell on January 22, 2015 - 8:26 am
Is Sharon wise enough to realize the difference between cronyism and nepotism?
http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/search/?a=fullerton&q=quirk&y=
#5 by Anonymous on January 22, 2015 - 10:39 am
Name what she did that was worthy of that proclamation made on behalf of ALL OF THE RESIDENTS OF FULLERTON.
#6 by Anonymous on January 22, 2015 - 11:54 am
She did more for the under-served and homeless citizens than any of the right-wing zealots, that’s for sure. Also was the very first to publicly call for police chief to resign after Kelly Thomas beating. The ironic thing is that all of the right-wingers and Libertarians in town were the ones who politicized Kelly’s death. The reality is that they don’t give two marbles about Kelly or any homeless folks. For them it was just about busting the cops union. I’d be curious to know how many people who post here do one minute of volunteering in the community. I’d bet its very few if any.
#7 by Eric on January 22, 2015 - 2:11 pm
According to Joe’s own words “the churches are nothing more than cash registers” and that the responsibility to care for the poor “belongs to the churches and not the government”
I agree. I wonder what they have done with all of the tithes and offerings we have given over the years. Joe and I have been at odds with each other over this very issue. Lately I am leaning more and more towards agreeing with him.
Out here where we live, the churches have beautiful new multi-million dollar facilities that are not even necessary.
#8 by Mark Powell on January 22, 2015 - 7:01 pm
Name one Fullerton church leader who spoke out against the Fullerton Police department even AFTER the video from the city owned camera downtown captured Kelly Thomas’s last breath?
When not a word is spoken on the behalf of a 137 pound mentally ill man being beaten to death by six, healthy, well armed police officers, shows me that the church bells here in Fullerton are DEFINITELY broken, or, self serving.
Come to think of it, aren’t Institutions are ALWAYS self serving?
#9 by Mark Powell on January 22, 2015 - 2:32 pm
Anonymous,
You forgot to add that Sharon Quirk Silva was also on the City Council when Chief Sellers was chosen to lead the Fullerton Police department.
The devil is always in the details isn’t it?
Sins of omission.
#10 by Mark Powell on January 22, 2015 - 3:41 pm
At least we agree that the homeless are citizens.