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SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Five Fullerton police officers involved in an altercation with a homeless man who later died of his injuries were placed on paid administrative leave Tuesday a day after new surveillance video shows witnesses telling a bus driver that the officers had used a stun gun and beaten the man.
In the video taken aboard an Orange County Transportation Authority bus, passengers say officers pounded 37-year-old Kelly Thomas' face and hogtied him as he cried out for his father.
A memorial grows Tuesday morning, Aug 2, 2011, at the Fullerton Transportation Center in Fullerton, Calif. where 37-year-old Kelly Thomas was confronted by Fullerton police on July 5. A surveillance video released Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 shows witnesses telling a bus driver that Fullerton police officers had used a stun gun and beaten Thomas, a homeless man who later died as a result of the confrontation. In the video taken aboard an Orange County Transportation Authority bus, passengers say officers pounded Thomas' face and hogtied him as he cried out for his father. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Ken Steinhardt)
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In this photo taken July 12, 2011, one of the posters the Thomas family posted around the Fullerton Transportation Center in the hopes of eliciting information and video of a police beating they believe led to the death of Kelly Thomas is shown in Fullerton, Calif. A surveillance video released Monday, Aug. 1, 2011 shows witnesses telling a bus driver that Fullerton police officers had used a stun gun and beaten a homeless man who later died as a result of the confrontation. In the video taken aboard an Orange County Transportation Authority bus, passengers say officers pounded 37-year-old Kelly Thomas' face and hogtied him as he cried out for his father. (AP Photo/Orange County Register, Joshua Sudock)
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Ron Thomas, father of Kelly Thomas, 37, asks the Fullerton City Council on Tuesday night Aug. 2, 2011 to answer questions about the death of his son after being arrested by Fullerton police. (AP Photo/Leonard Ortiz - Orange County Register)
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Fullerton residents and others fill the hallways outside the Fullerton city council Tuesday Aug. 2, 2011 to watch public comments on the death of Kelly Thomas on television. (AP Photo/Leonard Ortiz - Orange County Register)
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Fullerton Police Chief Michael Sellers listens Tuesday Aug. 2, 2011 as the public lashes out at him and the city council for the death of Kelly Thomas. (AP Photo/Leonard Ortiz - Orange County Register)
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