The Friends For Fullerton's Future blog is reporting overwhelming success in massive community efforts to recall three city councilmen who arrogantly downplayed the gruesome police killing of Kelly Thomas, a homeless man, last July.
According to the popular blog, more than 50,000 Fullerton residents signed petitions to recall Don Bankhead, F. Richard “Dick” Jones and Patrick McKinley.
In the wake of the Thomas killing, the city council trio acted despicably by repeatedly mocking the public outcry over police brutality.
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The website reports that recall advocates obtained at least 6,500 more recall signatures than necessary for each councilman.
Former state Assemblyman Dick Ackerman (R-Fullerton) is leading efforts to block the recall.
After the Orange County Registrar of Voters validates the signatures, the city council must call for a special election.
Prosecutors arrested two Fullerton police officers for illegally killing Thomas.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.