by Barry Levinson
Exactly 1,603 days after the savage beating death of a 135- pound “innocent man” (Police Chief Dan Hughes so proclaimed Kelly Thomas posthumously at a council meeting about a year or so latter), the tragic tale of Kelly Thomas comes to a dramatic close.
Although, I am very disappointed that Mr. Thomas chose to accept the City of Fullerton’s large offer of 4.9 million dollars, instead of going through an open civil trial, it should not be the focus of our thoughts and concerns.
Let’s just review that various costs involved in the Kelly Thomas savage beating death has cost the Fullerton public.
Payout to Mrs. Kathy Thomas $1,000,000
Payout to Mr. Ron Thomas $4,900,000
Estimated legal related fees $500,000
Potential estimated settlements with
fired officers who are attempting to get
their jobs back.
(We shall have to wait
and see on this one.) $5,000,000
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Total cost to pay off victims for the FPD’s
bad acts: $11,400,000
The impact this has for the Fullerton
Public. ………………………………… A lasting mistrust of the FPD
Here is the way to start the healing.
Removing Dan Hughes and Joe Felz from
Fullerton city government forever. …………… Priceless!!
Dan Hughes-FPD chief
It is ironic that the settlement approval came at a hastily called for “Special” City Council meeting for 8 AM the morning before the Thanksgiving Day Holiday. Any fool knows that the timing of this meeting was carefully selected by a majority of our city council along with City Manager Joe Felz.
Joe Felz Fullerton city manager
It was probably the same majority who voted for the $4.9 million settlement, i.e. Fitzgerald, Flory and Chaffee. So the next time Council members Flory, Fitzgerald and Chaffee have the audacity to talk about the openness and transparency of city government, I hope a large segment of the council audience will have the courage to remind them of this 8 AM council meeting.
Now that Police Chief Dan Hughes does not have to worry about testifying under oath before the civil jury (and the world) and answer some very embarrassing, tough and even a few unanswerable questions, he can now sit back and wait for his approximately 200K pension to arrive just over the horizon. It is good to be the king, which is what many of the top public servants truly are these days. It is we the people who get incredibly little consideration from all these so-called civil servants and elected officials. They are supposed to be looking out for the citizens of Fullerton wellbeing in their fiduciary roles. They make multi-million dollar decisions such as with the passage of several 4-year union contracts and in their public council deliberations did not even mention the word “taxpayer”. Their actions certainly show no empathy or concern for those that pay the city’s bills. Council member Fitzgerald as a self-described Republican, deserves the loudest shout-out for her apparent lack of concern for the financial wellbeing of the city and taxpayer.
But I want to leave the readers with a positive message. We the people of Fullerton can look forward to a better-run city government. All we have to do is vote out Ms. Flory and Ms. Fitzgerald next year and vote for people such as Joe Imbriano.
My role going forward will be to do whatever will do the most good for our city. I look forward to continue speaking out whenever our city leadership goes astray or fails in their responsibilities to you the good citizens of Fullerton.
P.S. The city of Fullerton government and its services are in very bad shape. Therefore, we must reject politics as usual. Too many elected officials either work against the people or try to straddle the fence and in so doing accomplish little. Well I am here to tell all of them, to either get with the people 100% or get out of the way for a change is coming.
I report, you decide.
Barry Levinson
#1 by joedoe on January 8, 2016 - 4:21 pm
Hey! Is Fullertons future blog back? I wish you could inform us about fullerton without all the biochemical stuff thrown in which seems to be about 90% of this blog and has nothing to do with fullerton specificaly.
#2 by Joe Imbriano on January 8, 2016 - 8:43 pm
Pick your Foolerton poison pal. Shall we dabble with death by deranged cop, sterilization via syringe or how about zapped ovaries via the iPad in the lap? How about the good vibrations from the cell tower they will put in your backyard? Perhaps you like to be sprayed from the air? Perhaps being mowed down by a drunk driver from all the liquor joints downtown? Having your neighborhood turned into 8 story buildings with parking meters everywhere? So how do you really feel about the good vibrations from a cell tower in your backyard? Maybe a 100% autism rate from all the wireless would make you feel more at home while your kids are at school getting sterilized? How about the potholes that snap your tie rod ends or tweek the control arms? I know, you just really like to feel good about being lied to and having your taxes squandered on and by a bunch of fat head alcoholic liars that have run this town into the ground? Oh maybe you like rolling around in all the dead grass sitting under a dead tree that will fall on your car because the geoengineered drought is allowed to continue and force us into water restrictions that kill our gardens and fruit trees so you have to get you frankfriuts and veggies from Wal mart? Did I forget the pickpocket preachers that suck all the suckers dry every Sunday morning as they put them to sleep and protect all of these agendas? Did I miss anything? Oh yeah-This is not Tony’s site.
#3 by Reality Is..... on January 8, 2016 - 10:35 pm
The thought process is very similar to tony’s thought process though. Very. 100% autism rate? LOL come on. You been smoking Tony’s weed tonight?
#4 by Anonymous on January 11, 2016 - 1:09 pm
Can you imagine Imbriano on the chronic? That would be a sight indeed. I think he naturally gets off on the fringe shit without partaking.
#5 by Anonymous on January 10, 2016 - 6:25 pm
Why don’t you tell us more about how the earth is flat? Surely such ground-breaking research should be shouted from the rooftops! It could only help bolster your credibility among enlightened citizens.
#6 by Joe Imbriano on January 10, 2016 - 6:54 pm
The Bible is a flat earth book from cover to cover. Here is the section on this website that deals with what a joke is being taught to our children. It is all designed to discredit the Bible so the evil people can feel good about their evil deeds, you know like the people you hang out with? https://thefullertoninformer.com/category/the-flat-earth/
You can vote for Fitzpringle and Fluoride. I don’t need your vote. There are 100,000 other people besides you. Enjoy the lies and all the aforementioned on their and their ilk’s watch.
As far as vaccines and wireless-The editor in chief of Lancet, Richard Horton, wrote last month:
Much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. As one participant put it, “poor methods get results”. The Academy of Medical Sciences, Medical Research Council, and Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have now put their reputational weight behind an investigation into these questionable research practices. The apparent endemicity [i.e. pervasiveness within the scientific culture] of bad research behaviour is alarming. In their quest for telling a compelling story, scientists too often sculpt data to fit their preferred theory of the world. Or they retrofit hypotheses to fit their data. Journal editors deserve their fair share of criticism too. We aid and abet the worst behaviours. Our acquiescence to the impact factor fuels an unhealthy competition to win a place in a select few journals. Our love of “significance” pollutes the literature with many a statistical fairy-tale. We reject important confirmations. Journals are not the only miscreants. Universities are in a perpetual struggle for money and talent, endpoints that foster reductive metrics, such as high-impact publication. National assessment procedures, such as the Research Excellence Framework, incentivise bad practices. And individual scientists, including their most senior leaders, do little to alter a research culture that occasionally veers close to misconduct.
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#7 by Anonymous on January 11, 2016 - 3:22 pm
Wow. That is all I can say is wow.
#8 by Reality Is..... on January 8, 2016 - 10:36 pm
That blog was fun for awhile. Good variety of topics and good debates. Blogs are no fun with everyone agreeing on everything all the time. Like circle jerking each other.