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Maggie Maybe Aug 30, 2025

It’s been 14 years since Kelly Thomas died and I still think about this man.

These police officers would not have been charged and convicted if someone hadn’t recorded this disgusting beating from their apartment.

If you see something happening like this please document it and get some help to stop it if you can’t do anything by yourself.

(The “stolen mail” was his father’s. Nobody reported stolen mail, it was just that it wasn’t his and it was in his backpack. But even if it was stolen mail, the sentence for that isn’t death.)

CW: there’s a really graphic photo of him (his face) in the hospital halfway through the article.

AT HOME WITH THE HOMELESS: Remembering Kelly Thomas part 1 - Fullerton Observer https://fullertonobserver.com/2023/04/06/at-home-with-the-homeless-remembering-kelly-thomas-part-1/

#acab #KellyThomas #homeless

Church of Jeff Jan 6, 2024

#acab #kellythomas #policebrutality

Church of Jeff Oct 31, 2023

#KellyThomas #ACAB

Scott 🐂Jan 28, 2023

Police brutality isn't restricted to black men.
#TyreNichols #TyreeNichols #KellyThomas https://wildabouttrial.com/trial-coverage/kelly-thomas-police-beating/

Kelly Thomas “Police Beating”

Background Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old homeless man in Fullerton, CA, died after a brutal beating from six police officers. The altercation was caught on a nearby surveillance camera, and after significant public pressure three of the officers are charged with murder and manslaughter in Thomas’ death. The case has brought the Fullerton Police Department under...

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