Paul Detrick on Cellphone Justice and the Killing of Kelly Thomas

On January 14,
2014, Manuel Ramos and Jay Cicinelli, two former police officers in
Fullerton, California, were acquitted of manslaughter and
second-degree murder charges in the death of Kelly Thomas, a
37-year-old schizophrenic drifter. The two cops brutally beat
Thomas at a municipal bus station on July 5, 2011. He died in the
hospital five days later, after falling into a coma. Paul Detrick
highlights that the only reason the trial ever happened was due to
a fairly recent innovation: cellphone cameras. 

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