Anaheim Police Shooting

Makaze · Jul 22, 2012

This is breaking. As in today.

ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — A police shooting that left a man dead led to a violent clash as angry witnesses threw bottles at officers who responded with tear gas and beanbag rounds to suppress the crowd, authorities said.

The man was shot in front of an apartment complex around 4 p.m. Saturday following a foot chase, Anaheim Sgt. Bob Dunn said. He died three hours later at a hospital.

The Orange County Register cited family members and neighbors who said the man shot was Manuel Diaz. Dunn said he could not confirm the man's name early Sunday.

His niece, 16-year-old Daisy Gonzalez, said her uncle likely ran away from officers when they approached him because of his past experience with law enforcement.

"He (doesn't) like cops. He never liked them because all they do is harass and arrest anyone," Gonzalez told the newspaper after lighting a candle for her uncle. She cursed at officers who were nearby and a police helicopter that hovered overhead.

As officers were investigating what happened at the scene, Dunn said an angry group of people began yelling and throwing bottles at them. He said that as officers detained several people, the crowd advanced on officers so they fired tear gas and beanbag rounds at them.

Video captured by a KCAL-TV crew showed a chaotic scene in which officers fired beanbag rounds as some people ducked to the ground while others scattered screaming. A man is seen yelling at an officer even as a weapon is pointed at him; two adults huddled to shield a boy and girl. Meanwhile, a police dog ran into several people sitting on the grass, including a woman and child in a stroller, before biting a man in the arm.

Dunn said the dog somehow got out of a patrol car and was "deployed accidentally."

Throughout the night, police in multiple marked and unmarked squad cars attempted to control an unruly crowd gathered near the shooting scene, the Register reported.

Some in the crowd moved a Dumpster into an intersection and set its trash on fire on at least three separate occasions, while officers kept responding to move it out of the way of traffic.

Dunn said gang detectives are involved in the investigation.

Crystal Ventura, a 17-year-old who witnessed the shooting, told the Register the man had his back to the officer. She said the man was shot in the buttocks area. The man then went down on his knees, and she said he was struck by another bullet in the head. Another officer handcuffed the man who by then was on the ground and not moving, Ventura said.

"They searched his pockets, and there was a hole in his head, and I saw blood on his face," she told the newspaper. Dunn said he could not comment on these allegations because the shooting is under investigation.

Dunn said the man shot by police was one of three men who ran away from officers who approached them in an alley. The other two suspects have not been captured.

He would not say why police shot the man, saying that the details are under investigation by the Orange County District Attorney's office.
He said several people were arrested in the melee, but he couldn't immediately provide a figure.
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Source: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap...Vk1xDA?docId=2440010e2afa4291bb2bc8e1bc99fcc2

Here is the video in question.

[video=youtube;MST4RhWdlMQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MST4RhWdlMQ[/video]

Makaze · Jul 31, 2012

More on this, the Anaheim police have become paramilitary in response and have been shooting more people. These pictures are from outside of the Anaheim police station on the 29th.

These weapons are being used against protesters:

Amaury · Jul 31, 2012

Makaze said: ↑

More on this, the Anaheim police have become paramilitary in response and have been shooting more people. These pictures are from outside of the Anaheim police station on the 29th.

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s720x720/487775_10150970078431483_344027754_n.jpg

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/550999_413771118657989_1199139952_n.jpg

These weapons are being used against protesters:

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/s720x720/396153_345877732157517_1314662680_n.jpg
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This is crazy. So now the cops are just going on a crazy rampage, shooting anyone in their path? What happened that was so bad, anyway?

I'll tell you one thing. I definitely wouldn't want to live there.

Makaze · Jul 31, 2012

Amaury said: ↑

This is crazy. So now the cops are just going on a crazy rampage, shooting anyone in their path? What happened that was so bad, anyway?

I'll tell you one thing. I definitely wouldn't want to live there.
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I wouldn't call it a rampage. They are shutting down anyone protesting a recent police shooting by shooting more people, including children (albeit with non-lethal bullets), which spawns more protest, which brings in militarized police. Which spawns more shootings, which spawn more protests. It isn't a pretty sight.

This could happen anywhere really, but since this is not in the big city I doubt most people know that this is going on.

Aura · Aug 1, 2012

I've been meaning to post here but I keep forgetting. <_<;

I live like an hour away from Anaheim so at the moment, this has been heard of a lot where I live. For the record, you do not run away from a cop, never. It only makes you look even more suspicious. So I guess in a way I can understand why the police might be reacting a certain way, but they should not release a dog or fire in a crowd where there are children.

The last time I heard anything more about this issue going on in Anaheim(which was like a couple days ago) apparently there's already been three more shootings or something so the people are really up in arms about this. I haven't heard anything else since there so I don't know if it's dying down or not.

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