Question:
Do you think there would be a riot if the video of the police beating in Fullerton was made public?
Diverging Point
2011-08-08 19:09:15 UTC
I'm sure most people by now know about the 6 police officers who viciously beat to death Kelly Thomas, a homeless man in Fullerton, California.

An anonymous informant called a radio station (KFI 640). He had a lot of inside information about the Fullerton Police Department, and he said that there is a camera in a parking lot at the bus station where the beating took place, and it clearly shows the entire incident from beginning to end. It has a live feed to the police station, and a dispatcher saw it as it happened, and even zoomed in. The informant said that one officer (most likely Jay Cicinelli) can be seen beating Kelly on the head with the back of a taser, while he was already on the ground and not moving. In the informant's opinion, based on what he saw in the video, it was murder.

The Fullerton Police Department and the Orange County Districty Attorney's Office are not releasing that video.

However, a lady from the Orange County DA was interviewed by a CNN reporter. She is high ranking, the Chief of Staff. She HAS seen the video. She still says that they won't release the video, to prevent "tainting witnesses." But when the reporter asked her what was on the video, the lady became visibly emotional and looked like she was about to cry. She said "your heart breaks" and then caught herself before she said anything else. But you can clearly tell she was disturbed by whatever she saw in the video.

If an official from the DA's office is upset an emotional from seeing that video, we can just imagine how bad it must really be!

The public is already furious. The cops who were involved in the beating have already been named and their names have been circulated all over the internet and in the public. The officers have personally been getting death threats. Do you think that if that video were released, there would be a riot or another major civil disturbance in Fullerton?

Could that be the REAL reason they don't want to release the video? Because the public would explode.

I'm thinking the cops are going to wind up dead. I'm not necessarily advocating vigilante justice, but just judging by the public outrage, I think they are in very real danger.
Four answers:
nowwheresmypants
2011-08-10 16:51:38 UTC
I used to live in Fullerton, and still have family a couple blocks from where this took place. The only thing I don't understand is why Anonymous hasn't "requested" the release of this yet. They seem to be getting to be quite powerful negotiators as of late. I wonder if they focused on this heinous crime for a bit if we might have something a little closer to true justice. Keep in mind that these cops were only suspended AFTER the story broke on KFI 640. That should tell you a little bit about the True Inner Policy vs. what the Press Releases will claim. Peace and Love to all.
baram
2016-09-17 12:25:13 UTC
If the Rule of Law has any validity within the USA, the ones philly police officers must simply have subdued them and cuffed them, no longer 15 police officers stomping on the ones suspects. Way out of line. But this style of police behaviour isn't precise to Philadelphia, it occurs in each and every town within the USA wherein the police are without problems out of line. America has a police predicament and it's time to eliminate the police.
2011-08-08 19:13:11 UTC
I don't know what to think. I have no evidence whatsoever. All I know is California is a cesspool. Those Leftists created the same burned out society they always create.



Yes, it would probably cause riots. Almost anything does in California.
Obamavenger
2011-08-08 19:11:14 UTC
No.


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