EMOTIONAL EVENING LISTENING TO PUBLIC COMMENTS ABOUT KELLY THOMAS AT THE FULLERTON CITY COUNCIL. By Barry Levinson
https://youtu.be/a6GfxBA-Wdo
Dana Pape, the step mom of Kelly Thomas and Tina, the sister of Kelly Thomas both spoke at Public Comments last night at the Fullerton City Council.
They spoke from their hearts and they spoke the truth. The pain of loosing a loved one does not diminish much over time especially when justice was not served at all.
Comment To Those That Are Heartless! Yes you should care about what happened to Kelly Thomas and not rationalize that because he was homeless and mentally ill that he was somehow less of a person. He died a horrific death, murdered by members of the FPD. They were not found guilty but what do you call that senseless brutal beating with three, then four, then five and finally six officers present at various times during the horrific assault carried out by some of FPD’s so-called finest? What do you call that beating death of an innocent man as proclaimed by none other than former Police Chief Danny Hughes. Hughes stated that he was an innocent man officially at a City Council meeting. Yet his training officer Steven Rubio testified under oath that no Fullerton policies or procedures were broken that fateful night.
Meet Training officer Rubio “In the video, all things considered, I don’t see anything out of policy,” Rubio said.
Kelly Thomas after no procedures were violated according to Rubio
Training officer Rubio on the right pictured with Pat McKinley on the left who proudly proclaimed on TV that “I hired em all” referring to the killers cops that murdered Kelly Thomas including hiring a one eyed cop Jay Cicinelli who failed to meet even the most minimum standards-
Pat Mckinley pictured on the right- a police chief who didn’t even follow his own departments rules or procedures when it came to hiring a one eyed cop-
The highest ranking officer on the scene, Sgt. Kevin Craig testified under oath that no Fullerton policies or procedures were broken that fateful night.
Sgt Kevin Craig was named supervisor of the year by his union after helping the killers go free.
Kelly Thomas after no procedures were violated according to Craig
Question to Danny Hughes now retired and VP of Security for the self proclaimed Happiest Place on Earth, Disneyland. How could two of your officers testify under oath that no FPD policies or procedures were broken that night let alone criminal statutes, when you proclaimed he was an innocent man?
Hughes
Kelly Thomas after no procedures were violated
Is that what your Fullerton Policies and Procedures manual calls for former Police Chief Danny Hughes? Does your FPD Policies and Procedure Manual state that it is within procedure for FPD officers to start a savage gang attack on an innocent man resulting in his death? Not one of the officers present had the decency to say to all the other officers enough already, while Kelly was repeatedly and incredibly courteously pleading for his life, referring to all of them as sir.
When I watched the entire video, there were so many thoughts floating through my mind.
First I thought as bad as I had heard the beating was there was nothing to prepare me for the savagery and the total lack of any reason to hit Kelly Thomas not even once let alone hundreds of times.
Second, it hit me that a homeless mentally ill man was the only person who acted sanely that evening. In my humble opinion it was the cops who acted like mentally deranged savages.
Thirdly, I thought how horrible, how unimaginable to die needlessly in that fashion. The actions of those police officers present was so brutal, so inhuman and so barbaric.
And now two of them Cincinelli and Wolfe are suing the City of Fullerton for their jobs back with back pay.
Wolfe
Cicinelli
Finally, in my opinion due to the statements of one Danny Hughes
Dan Hughes pictured on the right with one of “his untouchables” FPD PIO Radus on the left. “One piece of evidence introduced in the Irish arbitration that shed some light on the Fullerton Culture of Corruption was a copy of a poster that was hanging in the locker of Fullerton Police PIO Sgt. Jon Radus. It is a photo-shop likeness of a movie poster from the movie the “Untouchables”. It depicts the face of Dan Hughes overlooking a gun toting gang of thirty’s era cops with the faces of Sgt. Corbett, Sgt. Radus, Sgt. Garah and Sgt. Petropulos superimposed on the bodies. All of these police supervisors played a dubious role in the termination of Corporal Paul Irish.”
and the testimony under oath of the FPD trainer and Sgt Craig, they will probably end up with multimillion dollar settlements from the Fullerton taxpayer. How do you uphold their firing when two of the FPD’s so-called finest testified under oath that no FPD Policies or Procedures were broken that night.
This should be a case study presented in every police academy on what every officer should never do concerning the brutal death of Kelly Thomas. It should also be training as how to not as law enforcement employees try to justify those dastardly police actions after the fact in court by an official training officer.
And to all the City Council weasels siting on the dais last night, not one of you had the decency to state that what was done to Kelly Thomas was a low point in the entire history of the FPD and that you feel for the loss suffered by Dana and Tina and will do everything possible to make sure it can never ever happen again in the City of Fullerton. Instead some legal mumbo jumbo by the Mayor and total silence from the other four council members.
Heartless and cold blooded Jennifer Fitzgerald once again ignored the pleas for justice by the decedents family
Downtown bar owner sycophant Greg Seborn pictured on the right ignored the impassioned pleas for justice by the bereaved family members even after the city attorney cleared them to speak on the incident.
Jesus Silva was given the green light to give his condolences to the family members present and couldn’t give the simple we are sorry for what happened to Kelly Thomas.
Mayor Doug Chaffee failed to show any humanity towards the community or the family of Kelly Thomas last night when all he could muster was some legal jargon
Downtown bar owner sycophant State Senate candidate Bruce Whitaker chooses to do the wrong thing once again by remaining silent ignoring the hearyt wrenching testimony of Kelly Thomas’s family.
#1 by Fullerton - The Most Corrupt City In California on February 28, 2018 - 10:26 am
The above is proof positive that the FPD is still as crooked as Lombard Street in San Francisco (for those who do not know, Lombard Street is known as the most crooked street in the country if not the world).
Two of the barbarians, Hampton and Craig who acted with Cincinelli, Wolfe and Ramos to murder an innocent man, Kelly Thomas are still in good standing with the FPD. The Fullerton Police Officers Association (FPOA), i.e. the Fullerton Police Union deserves a call out for two disgusting reasons. First they bailed out Ramos and Cincinelli. Those in the Fullerton public do not expect their contributions to the FPOA to go in part to helping to bail out murderers. You know when they send out mailers for citizen contributions it never stated that they use part of their money for such purposes. Second, I believe to give the bird to all Fullertonians in 2013, the FPOA gave Kevin Craig the Supervisor of the Year Award. What does that tell you about the FPOA?
All five council members were silent with respect to giving condolences to the family members speaking before them. All five council members were silent as to the barbaric treatment Kelly Thomas received at the hands of these barbarians.
Yet one council member wants you to vote for him for the State Senate on the laughable platform of fighting Sacramento corruption. Well Council member Bruce Whitaker your city attorney gave you a green light to speak out about the Kelly Thomas case, which of course includes all the corruption in the handling of that case by the FPD brass and especially their captain at the time, Danny Hughes.
Did you Bruce Whitaker call out that corruption sir? No. Did you call for reforms in the FPD sir? No. Did you mention that participants in the murder of Kelly Thomas are still on the FPD in good standing sir? No. Did you state that it was corruption 101 to allow all the officers to review the Kelly Thomas video over and over again by none other than Danny Hughes their superior officer while writing there phony, corrupt police reports sir? No. And did you point out that it was two officers, then training officer Steven Rubio and Sergeant Kevin Craig that testified that the officers in question the night of July 5, 2011 did everything by the FPD book and that was a bald face lie of immense proportions? No.
It is so very clear that Fullerton Council member Bruce Whitaker is a total fraud and charlatan, who remained silent on all of the above. But now his campaign platform for the State Senate is to fight Sacramento corruption. If you remain silent when all legal restrictions are removed by the City Attorney, does that not expose you as a coward and a fraud? And why if you have accomplished nothing in almost 8 years on the Fullerton City Council where you were a member of the majority party in power the entire time, should we expect better in Sacramento?
Finally, why did you expose yourself as a corrupt politician by voting to grant the downtown bar/restaurant JP23 with a Conditional Use Permit to expand the bar and seating to the second floor when they have failed repeatedly to fix numerous city cited violations. Why would you reward bad behavior to add more bar space for this business? I believe l have the reason. JP23 has been a campaign contributor to you sir. That in and of itself is the definition of corruption. To do the wrong thing for the public because of campaign cash. Like I said before, Council member Bruce Whitaker is a charlatan, fraud and a coward all rolled up in one phony politician.
The people of Fullerton have had enough of him.