9/21/11 TONY RACKAUCKAS re KELLY's LAST WORDS ("DAD !") KNOWING HE WAS BEING KILLED

TONY RACKAUCKAS RE KELLY's LAST WORDS ("DAD !") KNOWING HE WAS BEING KILLED ....The poor kid (Kelly) knew he was being killed by Officer Ramos ...he called out to his dad ..bloody tears well up in my eyes as I type this..completely unnecessary loss of life b/c of an officer filled w/ anger & hate..
(audio) 9/21/11 OC DA TONY RACKAUCKAS re CHARGES v OFFICER RAMOS 4 KILLING KELLY THOMAS in FULLERTON…this is a good first step..they've been talking about it all morning ..its a chilling story...& I can't help but conclude that it was partially w/ racial undertones...I've been around L.A. & OC myself long enough as a person with "no official authority" to understand how some of these officers will take out their anger & hate on people whom they believe they can do so without any repurcussions..ramos already knew who kelly thomas was...& apparently knew he had some issues but also knew kelly wasn't a danger to society, nor violent, nor armed..yet Ramos decided as he himself said to "F--k u up with my fists" ...& he even took time to methodically put on gloves ..ramos being latino..kelly being anglo (irish-american ?) ...I know the anger in some of these cops if you exhibit even a tiny hint of an "attitude" toward them....& ramos proceeded to literally beat kelly to death...along w/ a few other officers..& of course his radio call for help..added fuel to the fire...anytime a cop has a person down..they're going to also be attempting to "justify" the use of force by adding words to the audio-recording such as "stop resisting" even when there is absolutely NO RESISTANCE..they've been trained or taught eachother informally to add this dialogue so that whatever may be caught on video tape or on their own audio tape makes it look & sound as if the person is continuing to fight & resist..so that further force is justified...yet at some point obviously Kelly must have gone limp...because he was dead..how much longer did Ramos et. al continue to beat Kelly (tony says they used tazers and tazer darts as well..see next audio)..and ALL these cops for one person who was unarmed ?! and the beating continues? its outrageous..mark geragos the famous defense attorney spoke earlier on the show & he spoke candidly when he said he was still surprised that the DA is pressing charges ..& will be all the more surprised if an OC jruy convicts (OC having a reputation, of course, for pro-police & "law & order" despite some of the corruption in OC sheriff's dept of years gone by) ..geragos said that the defense will do everything they can to paint a picture of Kelly as a bad person who resisted & who got what was coming because he was disobedient to the cop .. I wonder if frank pastore is going to do a show about this today .. this is insane ...& all the more insane if the officer isn't convicted ..yet in OC there won't be a riot as we saw in the rodney king case...unless some of the OC folk show some backbone & make a stand .. My heart goes out to Kelly's father .. I remember being accosted by a latino officer in the city of orange after an angels game..not physically but it could have been if I didn't do the "yes sir, no sir" routine..and if an anglo officer wasn't with him (not to say same-race cops are always better to same-race citizens but its generally more likely...& unfortunately onve a cop starts something, all the other cops are bound to support him,,,so u will have cops of all race & skin colors suddenly on one bad cops side..& it just escalates from there...) as geragos mentioned..usually without video tape or extremely strong witnesses & evidence the DA will try to whitewash it on the cops behalf...Tony Rackauckas took a stand in this cse...God bless him..I hope he sees it all the way thru to a legitimate end..