Residents are planning the biggest protest yet against the Fullerton Police Department today following the early July, gruesome cop killing of Kelly Thomas, an unarmed homeless man.
What might fuel a bigger turnout? Well, there's been ever increasing media attention on the scandal and this: A growing sense that the Orange County District Attorney's office will accept police excuses–manufactured, self-serving excuses?–for the six officers who beat and mutilated Thomas' face and head.
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Thomas's father, Ron–a former Orange County Sheriff's deputy, has called his son's death “murder.”
Police officials have suggested the officers had good cause to use excessive force.
You can show your support by attending the protest at 237 W.
Commonwealth Avenue in Fullerton. The protest is set to begin at 9 a.m.
and go into mid-afternoon.
–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 ReportingĀ 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 fromĀ New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.