district attorney tony rackauckas says that what should have been just a routine police stop ended up with kelly thomas on the ground bleeding unconscious and dying and ramon we're looking at the video right now that surveillance video and it's black and white a little bit hard to see what's going on with all those police officers kind of crowded around kelly thomas how instrumental and how instrumental is this surveillance video in that case. well this is really the center of the case in as i mentioned earlier the district attorney tony rackauckas said that if it weren't for this tape and the other week cortines. police were equipped with police with audio recorders on their bodies if it weren't for these tapes he probably could not have prosecuted this case and really the dissemination of these videos online and the efforts of kelly thomas' father ron thomas really really resonated and got a lot of attention on on this case the final words of kelly thomas is kelly thomas before you went on client conches were dad dad dad those words really engrained in kelly thomas' father's brain h

and downtown is really huge i mean the prosecutor in this case orange county district attorney tony rackauckas before the trial started said that he probably would have been able to prosecute this case had it not been for that security footage and really before it came out it was shown to the public the city council the police chief the public information officer we're all trying to say that or trying to paint the picture any way that kelly thomas was the aggressor and that the police did what was absolutely necessary but once that video came out obviously charges were filed. the city of fullerton fired since in the alley and ramos. and. some of the city council was recalled so really this is cured footage is is huge in this case it shows your home really filming police and other cases in the initial stages right now what happened in the courtroom so far. so well it was a very emotional day in court today security footage. that we're talking about the video was played in full today from reporters that are inside of the courtroom today they reported several people in the audience started crying

downtown fulton is really huge i mean the prosecutor in this case orange county district attorney tony rackauckas before the trial started said that he probably would have been able to prosecute this case had it not been for that security footage and really before it came out and was shown to the public the city council the police the public information officer we're all trying to say that or trying to paint the picture any way that kelly thomas was the aggressor and that the police did what was absolutely necessary but once that video came out obviously charges were filed eventually the city of fullerton fired since in the alley and ramos. and. some of the city council was recalled so really this is cured footage is is huge in this case and shows you how important really filming police is around other cases in the initial stages right now with what happened in the courtroom so far. so while it was a very emotional day in court today the security footage that we're talking about the. video was played in full today and from reporters that are inside of the courtroom today they reported several peo

and downtown is really huge i mean the prosecutor in this case orange county district attorney tony rackauckas before the trial started said that he probably would have been able to prosecute this case had it not been for that security footage and really before it came out it was shown to the public the city council the police chief the public information officer we're all trying to say that or trying to paint the picture any way that kelly thomas was the aggressor and that the police did what was absolutely necessary but once that video came out obviously charges were filed eventually the city of fullerton fired since in the alley and ramos. and. some of the city council was recalled so really there's a cure the footage is is huge in this case it shows your home really filming police and other cases in the initial stages right now with what happened in the courtroom so far. sure well it was a very emotional day in court today the security footage that we're talking about. video was played in full today and from reporters that are inside of the courtroom today they reported several people in t