Kelly Thomas was beaten to death by police on the streets of Fullerton California, but what was Kelly Thomas charged with? The officers knew Kelly Thomas, he was a fixture, and they'd talked to him before. They knew he was homeless, but rather than say homeless, let's say instead, that they knew he was powerless to stop the officer's.
Kelly Thomas had no cell phone or high-powered attorney. His economic status made him an easy victim. So let's beat up that homeless guy, just for fun. Oop's we've killed him.
You are closer to Kelly Thomas than you could ever imagine.
In February of last year, Officer Daniel Harmon-Wright killed 54-year-old Patricia Cook in the parking lot of Epiphany Catholic School in Culpeper, Virginia, for the crime of driving away when he was trying to question her.
The jury recommended a three-year sentence, after the officer had fired his pistol five times into the body of an unarmed Sunday school teacher. He faced a possible 25 year prison sentence, but soon, will be back out on the streets with us again.
When your greatest fear of gun violence comes from the police force themselves, gun control is a bad idea. Because once the police know the average citizen is powerless against them, we're all Kelly Thomas. And when you consider the volume and the rise of "shoot first, make excuses later," police work. Given American police forces penchant for gun violence, they would quickly make the Gestapo look like grade school crossing guards.
An all-powerful imperial police force, with the power of life or death over the average citizen in a free country is an absurdity. That's why they call it a police state.
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