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damnedifIknow

(3,183 posts)
Sun Mar 16, 2014, 11:28 PM Mar 2014

California cop acquitted of murder now coaches little league baseball

Apparently one’s career options aren’t automatically diminished down to nothing after, say, killing a homeless man while on patrol as an officer of the law. One of the cops acquitted of murdering Kelly Thomas is reportedly coaching little league baseball."

* Ramos was spotted coaching little league baseball earlier this week in Fullerton, according to Orange County Weekly reporter Gabriel San Roman, at a park only a stone’s throw from his former office at the Fullerton police Department.

“The lights shone brightly at Duane Winters Field in Fullerton's Amerige Park earlier this week for a PONY League baseball game. Youngsters stepped up to the plate as the sound of aluminum bats thwacking baseballs rounded out what otherwise was a normal night of America's pastime...save for the killer cop in the dugout,” San Roman wrote for his OC Weekly blog on Thursday this week.

“There stood Manuel Ramos, coaching kids in the fine art of swinging a baton at a defenseless homeless man...sorry, swinging a bat at a defenseless homeless man...sorry, coaching kids,” he said. "

http://rt.com/usa/thomas-fullerton-ramos-baseball-938/

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California cop acquitted of murder now coaches little league baseball (Original Post) damnedifIknow Mar 2014 OP
This message was self-deleted by its author Th1onein Mar 2014 #1
If I was a parent of one of these kids damnedifIknow Mar 2014 #2
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damnedifIknow

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2. If I was a parent of one of these kids
Mon Mar 17, 2014, 12:51 PM
Mar 2014

I'd seriously pull him from the team or have a serious talk with the board. Coaching kids? Astronomically absurd.

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