Home is Life: Episode 1
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:32.7 | A warning that the first part of this episode involves vulgar language and violence and includes |
| 0:38.3 | some very disturbing audio. On the evening of July 5, 2011, a shirtless man with long red hair |
| 0:47.7 | and a scraggly beard was wandering around downtown Fullerton. Fullerton is a small |
| 0:53.2 | suburban city in Orange County, California. |
| 0:57.6 | The man's name was Kelly Thomas. |
| 0:59.9 | He was 37, and he'd been living on the streets for a long time. |
| 1:03.4 | He also had a mental illness. |
| 1:05.2 | He had been diagnosed with schizophrenia. |
| 1:08.5 | It had just gotten dark, |
| 1:10.1 | and Kelly was in the parking lot behind a local rock and roll bar. |
| 1:13.4 | The manager of the bar saw Kelly around a lot. |
| 1:16.5 | She later told a police investigator that he was known as Crazy Kelly. |
| 1:20.4 | She said he looked like Jesus. |
| 1:22.7 | That night, the manager called the police on Kelly. |
| 1:25.7 | She said she saw him looking into the windows of cars in the parking lot. |
| 1:29.3 | She thought maybe he was trying to break into them. |
| 1:33.3 | Eleven minutes later, two Fullerton police officers showed up |
| 1:36.3 | and confronted Kelly at the bus station next door. |
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