Ex-Cops Acquitted in Beating Death of Homeless Man in California
January 13th, 2014Via: CNN:
A jury has acquitted two former Fullerton, California, police officers on trial in the beating death of Kelly Thomas, a mentally ill and homeless man.
The verdict was read in a Santa Ana courtroom Monday afternoon. Eight women and four men began deliberating the case on Thursday.
The beating of Thomas in a transit parking lot was recorded by security cameras on the night of July 5, 2011. The surveillance camera footage shows Thomas being beaten, clubbed and stunned with a Taser by police. The video sparked a nationwide outcry.
Former officer Manuel Ramos was charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. A second former Fullerton officer, Jay Cicinelli, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and excessive use of force.
Both were found not guilty on all charges.
I have to believe that juries which acquit in cases such as these are hand picked pro-police people (courthouse or some other kind of government workers). Either that or they are regular folk that are just threatened to provide an acquittal, but I think it is far more likely that they are just hand picked courthouse workers.