Mayor meets with Kelly Thomas' dad
FULLERTON Just hours after a contentious City Council meeting, the father of Kelly Thomas on Wednesday morning sat down for his first face to face meeting with Fullerton Mayor F. Richard Jones, demanding that Jones resign but describing their two hour discussion as "very peaceful."
Ron Thomas said the mayor told him he came "very, very, very close to resigning" after Tuesday's council meeting and that he still may step down.
But in Cheap Longchamp Le Pliage comments to a city staffer, made in the presence of a Nike Cortez Womens reporter, Jones said he was pleased with how the "exhaustive" meeting went with Thomas, father of a 37 year old mentally ill homeless man who died July 10, five days after a physical altercation with six Fullerton police officers.
Asked by the city staff member if the meeting was productive, Jones said: Ghd Online Store Australia "I think very much so, for both of us. I am not resigning. There Ghd Factory Outlet Australia is much work left to be done in our great city."
Wednesday's mood was in stark contrast to the night before, when Ron Thomas frustrated by what he sees as a lack of sensitivity, concern and transparency on the part of Jones and other city and police officials concerning his son's death lashed out at the mayor during a packed City Council meeting.
Thomas got angry when Jones opened the meeting by saying all the time spent by staffers in the wake of the incident is leaving other city businesses unattended Nike Free Run 3 Online Australia to.
"I came here to offer you an olive branch," Ron Thomas told Jones while addressing the council on Tuesday night, "but the first thing you do is open your mouth and I want to grab a baseball bat instead, I swear to God."
Thomas told reporters Wednesday that he "fell into a dad who had his son murdered mode last night."
Said Thomas: "His very first comments before the (Tuesday) meeting started was that this is taking a lot of the city's time and that ticked me off right from the Ghd Australia Online Cheap first moment."
In comments to reporters after his meeting with Jones, Thomas said he learned a great deal about the mayor as the two, separated only by a small table, faced each other and talked for nearly two hours.
"He's a brilliant man," Thomas said of Jones, a former surgeon.
Still, Thomas reiterated his demand that Jones and other city officials step Nike Free Run Shoes For Sale down to give the residents of Fullerton "more hope, a new direction" as the probe into the death of Kelly Thomas continues.
"We need him to resign Nike Free Mens 3.0 and step down," Thomas, a Cypress resident, said before meeting with Jones. "He hasn't been a good leader at all."
Three outside investigations are under way concerning the circumstances of Kelly Thomas' death stemming from the July 5 skirmish with officers at the Fullerton Transportation Center.
The District Attorney's Office is weighing criminal charges, and the FBI has launched an investigation into possible civil rights violations. Michael Gennaco, chief attorney for the Los Angeles County Office of Independent Review, was hired by the City Council on Tuesday night to try to find out what happened that July 5 night.
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