Kelly Thomas was beaten, electrocuted, and crushed to death by six members of the Fullerton (CA) Police Department on July 5, 2011. Kelly Thomas committed no crime whatsoever, was unarmed, and presented no physical threat to himself or others in the events leading up to his death.
The entire assault, which concluded with Kelly Thomas dying in a gutter in a pool of his own blood was captured on both video and audio: http://bit.ly/1iL3j6s
On January 13, 2014 two of the officers involved were acquitted by a state court after jurors deliberated for fewer than eight hours.
It is simply unconscionable that the government of the United States of America would allow a shirtless, homeless, schizophrenic man to be killed by agents of the state who had sworn to uphold and protect his rights.