08-05-2011, 05:35 AM
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Schizophrenic man beaten to death in Fullerton
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Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old schizophrenic man in Fullerton, CA, was tased and beaten to death by six police officers:
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he was sitting on a bench at the Fullerton Transportation Center, a hub for buses and commuter trains where homeless people congregate, when six police officers arrived to investigate reports of a man burglarizing cars nearby. Police said he ran when they tried to search his backpack and that he resisted arrest.
The incident was captured by a bystander with a cell phone, and bus surveillance tape released Monday showed agitated witnesses describing how officers beat Thomas and used a stun gun on him repeatedly as he cried out for his father.
On the cell phone video, a man can be heard screaming over a fast, clicking sound that those on the tape identify as a stun gun being deployed.
A male witness says the man, identified as Thomas, was sitting on a bench when he was approached by two officers and ran from them. The man says police used a stun gun on Thomas six times.
"They caught him, pound his face, pound his face against the curb ... and they beat him up," the man said. "They beat him up, and then all the cops came and they hogtied him, and he was like, `Please God! Please Dad!"'
On the day of the beating, bystanders said Thomas was approached by two officers and ran from them.
Witnesses say the attack was unprovoked, CBS News Correspondent Ben Tracy added on "The Early Show."
Tracy reported in surveillance footage from a city bus, one passenger described the scene saying, "They were pulling his hair, kicking the (expletive) out of him. And he's all full of blood."
Another witness said, "...And then they caught him, pound his face against the curb, where it's red, and they beat him up."
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CBS News: Dad: "Shock" over son who died after cop beating
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