Cops beat mentally ill man to death (video included)

**Xenomorph** · 05-09-2012, 02:05 PM

The DA released the video of it today. 2 cops are currently being charged, 1 with 2nd degree murder and the other with involuntary manslaughter.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lano...or-help-1.html

http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/08/th...illance-footag

Via Carlos Miller at Photography is Not a Crime comes the news that the Orange County DA finally released security footage of the brutal beating death of 37-year-old Kelly Thomas, a homeless man from Fullerton, California.

Two police officers, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, are now on trial for the killing of Thomas, who suffered from schizophrenia. Cops used their fists and batons to beat Thomas. They Tasered him multiple times. Cause of death was apparently "mechanical suppression of the thorax."

Besides eventually screaming for his father, a former police officer himself, Thomas also repeatedly yells that he can't breathe in the video below.

Altercation starts at about 15 minutes in. Watch with extreme caution. It's the last conscious minutes of a man's life and it defies description.

Reason has previously covered this case, including Reason.tv on how cameras played a vital role in making sure Thomas' death was not ignored.

The incident in question starts at around 15 minutes in. Just know it's really hard to watch.

One of the cops can be heard saying "(We?) ran out of oxygen, so I got the end of my taser, and I probably... I just like, smashed his face to hell." 25:01

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**SilverKnight** · 05-10-2012, 02:15 AM

Sickening.

**~~Sikeliot~~** · 05-10-2012, 02:19 AM

Someone should make them have to go through what they made that poor man suffer.

**Supreme American** · 05-10-2012, 02:19 AM

Charge the wetback with a race crime. Fair turnaround.

Then execute both of them.

**~~Sikeliot~~** · 05-10-2012, 02:20 AM

Originally Posted by Lagergeld

Charge the wetback with a race crime. Fair turnaround.

We don't know that he isn't white. I didn't see a picture of him.

**Edelmann** · 05-12-2012, 12:51 AM

Originally Posted by sleepytigers

We don't know that he isn't white. I didn't see a picture of him.

Manuel Ramos(L) & Jay Cicinelli(R)

I don't know if there's any evidence to call it a hate crime though.

**The Lawspeaker** · 05-12-2012, 07:06 AM

Originally Posted by Edelmann

Manuel Ramos(L) & Jay Cicinelli(R)

I don't know if there's any evidence to call it a hate crime though.

"Manuel Ramos, you are sentenced to be taken hence to the prison in which you were last confined and from there to a place of execution where you will be hanged by the neck until dead and thereafter your body buried within the precincts of the prison and may the Lord have mercy upon your soul".

"Jay Cicinelli, you are sentenced to be taken hence to the prison in which you were last confined and from there to a place of execution where you will be hanged by the neck until dead and thereafter your body buried within the precincts of the prison and may the Lord have mercy upon your soul".

**~~Contra Mundum~~** · 05-12-2012, 07:31 AM

Rodney King beating got a lot more publicity and he wasn't killed. It's pretty obvious that the life of a white person, to our Jewish controlled media, has no value at all.