Federal Action for Kelly Thomas Murder

Fullerton County, CA officers were found NOT GUILTY in the Kelly Thomas beating death. LA Times reports: "An Orange County jury Monday found two former Fullerton police officers accused of killing a schizophrenic homeless man, Kelly Thomas, not guilty. Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli were charged with striking Kelly Thomas with a baton and a stun gun in a beating that left him comatose. He died five days later." Mentally ill people in America apparently have no protected right to life.

The Kelly Thomas verdict was discussed on January 13, 2014, on the "Human Rights for Prisoners March" radio show at 9pm Pacific - call-in (818)572.2947. Listen on your PC
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/nnia1/2014/01/14/human-rights-for-prisoners-march The tape will be archived at BlogTalkRadio. Kelly Thomas's beating is recorded on this RT video, embedded below: http://youtu.be/yn8CE5ISUSw

We at Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill stand for equal justice for ALL, including the mentally ill. There are no disposable people. Kelly Thomas was a human being. He had the right to life. We implore the U.S. Government to do as it did when police officers who beat Rodney King were released after a not guilty jury verdict although it was clear on the film that police officers abused their power. Kelly Thomas's murder was a HATE CRIME perpetuated because he was mentally ill and homeless. Justice for his death obviously requires federal intervention.

Hate crime is a category used to describe bias-motivated violence: "assault, injury, and murder on the basis of certain personal characteristics: different appearance, different color, different nationality, different language, different religion." (Wikipedia)

Pool of blood left at the scene where Kelly Thomas was beaten 

Over 50 percent of the police violence incidents in the United States involve mentally ill victims. Police violence against the mentally ill has reached epidemic proportions. The mentally ill are targeted because they are DIFFERENT from other people. They are a special class who have certain personal characteristics. The mentally ill require and deserve protection as American citizens and foreign nationals on American soil.

The definition of "citizen" is as follows: "One who through birth or naturalization owes loyalty to a country and is entitled to protection by the country." Mentally ill people of all races and ages in the United States must be protected. Assaults and murders against them must not go unpunished. We hereby request federal action against the police officers who killed Kelly Thomas. The video posted by Russian Times embedded below is called "Police beat a mentally ill homeless man to death." How a jury could look at this video and come to any other conclusion is beyond comprehension.

LA Times reports: Ron Thomas, Kelly's father and a former deputy himself, said he hoped that the U.S. Justice Department would file federal charges against the officers. The FBI had been investigating and monitoring the case . . . Laura Eimiller, a spokeswoman for the FBI's Los Angeles field office, said the agency opened a civil rights investigation into the case in 2011. Now that the state court trial has concluded, she said, "investigators will examine the evidence and testimony to determine if further investigation is warranted at the federal level."

Justice in the beating death of Kelly Thomas requires federal action, as happened when Rodney King's beating was also captured on tape. See Rodney King's beating http://youtu.be/SW1ZDIXiuS4 ~ The officers involved faced federal criminal charges after winning a not guilty jury verdict. On August 4, 1992, a Federal grand jury after hearing evidence from federal prosecutors, indicted four officers on charges of violating Rodney King's civil rights. The four men (who had won acquittals in State court) were put on trial on February 25, 1993, in the United States District Court for the Central District of California. On April 16, 1993, the trial ended with two of the police officers (Koon and Powell) found guilty and subsequently imprisoned. The other two officers (Wind and Briseno) were acquitted (Wikipedia).

Please demand federal action for Kelly Thomas in response to the police officers' hate crime against this mentally ill, homeless man. A federal action that results in a guilty verdict might help bring closure to Thomas's family and save other mentally ill people in the United States.

Source: Los Angeles Times
Police not guilty in Kelly Thomas death; DA won't try 3rd officer
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-live-verdict-in-kelly-thomas-police-murder-case-20140113,0,5661959.story#ixzz2qOhK28D3
Two former officers found not guilty in death of Kelly Thomas
http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-0114-kelly-thomas-verdict-20140114,0,6482344.story#ixzz2qOhXUvKU
Wikipedia - Rodney King Beating
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_King

Mary Neal, director

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI)

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