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Killer cops walk free after beating and tasing unarmed homeless man to death


FULLERTON, CA — In 2011, a group of police officers brutally beat an unarmed homeless man to death on a street corner with clubs, fists, and repeated electric shocks.  The story got national attention when the video of the attack showed the mentally ill man wailed for his father as police bludgeoned him mercilessly.  The story reached its heartbreaking conclusion when a jury announced that the police officers who had been charged with his death would all walk away as free men.  The frustrating story shows that even in the rare instances when police officers face criminal charges for their brutality, their position of power makes it incredibly easy for them to get away with murder.  The only objection the Fullerton Police Department had with the behavior of their officers was their use of profanity.

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