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Chanting "no justice, no peace" and "cops, pigs, murderers," the crowd swarmed the Anaheim Police headquarters after an Anaheim police officer fatally shot Manuel Diaz, 24, Saturday afternoon, The Associated Press reported on Sunday. The shooting sparked violent protests and outrage in the community. On Saturday, protesters gathered near the shooting scene and set fire to a trash bin and threw rocks and bottles at officers who were securing the scene for investigators to collect evidence.
Police used pepper balls and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. Videos of the scene showed police also unleashed a K-9 dog into the crowd. The dog charged at several people, including a woman and a child in a stroller, before biting a man in the arm.
According to Anaheim Police Chief John Welter, the Saturday shooting occurred after two officers spotted three men acting suspiciously in a neighborhood in northeastern Anaheim. One of the officers chased Diaz and shot him. Diaz later died in the hospital.
Welter said two officers were placed on paid leave but did not say what prompted the office to open fire.
“He was shot first in the back, but he was down," Diaz’s mother, Genevieve Huizar, said, adding that “then they shot him a second time. They shot him in the head.”
Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait has called for an independent investigation into the shooting and has asked the state Attorney General’s office to get involved in the case.
"Transparency is essential,” Tait said, noting, “The investigation will seek the truth. And whatever the truth is, we will own it.” Late on Sunday, in another incident several miles away from the Saturday afternoon shooting, an officer shot and killed a man police said was shooting at them.
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Cell phone video of the police assault shows a wall of officers in riot gear directing “non-lethal” fire at a group of unarmed and terrified civilians — including several small children, who were shielded by a man who appeared to be their father. Another officer unleashed a police dog, which immediately attacked a stroller containing an infant. A bystander who interposed himself — and was mauled by the dog for doing so — probably saved the child’s life.
Anaheim protesters clash with riot police over shooting of unarmed man
Violence erupts during fourth night of protests after death of Manuel Angel Diaz, who was shot by police on Saturday
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A protester is arrested by police officers from Orange County. Photograph: Alex Gallardo/Reuters
Protesters have clashed with police in Orange County, California, after an unarmed men was shot dead as he ran away from officers.
On the fourth night of protest in Anaheim since the death of Manuel Angel Diaz, protesters hurled rocks, bricks, traffic cones and other objects at riot police, who fired pepper-spray projectiles. An Anaheim police spokesman, Sergeant Bob Dunn, said five people were arrested and at least one person was taken to hospital after being shot in the head by a pepperball.
Fires broke out and officers brandishing shotguns guarded shops after protesters smashed the windows of at least six stores. A witness told Reuters protesters threw chairs through the windows of a Starbucks.
Diaz, 25, was shot on Saturday afternoon. Police said he fled from officers who approached him as he was standing near a car in an alley with two other men. They said he was a known gang member but admitted he was not carrying a gun when he was killed. Residents have accused police of racial profiling. Video footage showed officers standing over his body. Another man, Joel Matthew Acevedo was shot and killed after he fired at an officer on Sunday night. Their deaths bring to five the number of people killed by police shootings in Anaheim this year. There have been eight shootings in the city this year involving the police, according to officials.
Tuesday's violence broke out after hundreds of people gathered to protest outside Anaheim's city hall at around 4pm. Police blocked access to the meeting taking place inside after it reached capacity and issued a dispersal order at about 9pm. Within minutes, protesters fled as police shot pepper balls, NBC losangeles.com reported. They also used batons against protesters, some of whom threw objects and chanted at the police. An Orange County Register reporter was injured by a rock.
As clashes raged outside the building, officials inside the hall voted to ask the US attorney's office to investigate the killings. Anaheim's mayor, Tom Tait, said: "To the people in the city that are troubled about what happened. I'd like to tell you that I am committed to keeping the lines of communication open and to keep the process completely transparent."
The Orange County district attorney's office is already investigating both shootings and the FBI announced on Tuesday it would review Diaz's death to see whether it warranted a civil rights investigation. Diaz's mother, Genevieve Huizar, who is seeking $50m (£32m) in damages over her son's death, has called for the violence to stop.
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Protesters storm police station in California
Messages left at a memorial on Anna Drive in Anaheim, California, for Manuel Angel Diaz of Santa Ana, after he was shot and killed by Anaheim police on July 22, 2012
Mon Jul 23, 2012 11:24PM GMT
US demonstrators have stormed a police department in Orange County in the state of California to protest the controversial shooting death of an unarmed Latino man by a police officer.
Chanting "no justice, no peace" and "cops, pigs, murderers," the crowd swarmed the Anaheim Police headquarters after an Anaheim police officer fatally shot Manuel Diaz, 24, Saturday afternoon, The Associated Press reported on Sunday. The shooting sparked violent protests and outrage in the community. On Saturday, protesters gathered near the shooting scene and set fire to a trash bin and threw rocks and bottles at officers who were securing the scene for investigators to collect evidence.
Police used pepper balls and rubber bullets to disperse the crowd. Videos of the scene showed police also unleashed a K-9 dog into the crowd. The dog charged at several people, including a woman and a child in a stroller, before biting a man in the arm.
Five people were arrested in Anaheim during the two days of violence, the latest in a series of actions by families of shooting victims, some of whom have been holding weekly protests for nearly two years at police headquarters in Orange County.
According to Anaheim Police Chief John Welter, the Saturday shooting occurred after two officers spotted three men acting suspiciously in a neighborhood in northeastern Anaheim. One of the officers chased Diaz and shot him. Diaz later died in the hospital.
Welter said two officers were placed on paid leave but did not say what prompted the office to open fire.
“He was shot first in the back, but he was down," Diaz’s mother, Genevieve Huizar, said, adding that “then they shot him a second time. They shot him in the head.”
Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait has called for an independent investigation into the shooting and has asked the state Attorney General’s office to get involved in the case.
"Transparency is essential,” Tait said, noting, “The investigation will seek the truth. And whatever the truth is, we will own it.” Late on Sunday, in another incident several miles away from the Saturday afternoon shooting, an officer shot and killed a man police said was shooting at them.
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The Post-Aurora “Rampage” Few Have Heard About
One day after a lethal shooting rampage in Aurora, Colorado left twelve people dead and scores injured, another eruption of criminal violence left one dead and several others injured in Anaheim, California. The perpetrators of the second assault were officers from the Anaheim Police Department, who used “non-lethal” rounds — such as rubber bullets, which are reliably lethal at close range – to disperse a spontaneous protest that coalesced after the “officer-involved shooting” of a young man in the neighborhood.
Cell phone video of the police assault shows a wall of officers in riot gear directing “non-lethal” fire at a group of unarmed and terrified civilians — including several small children, who were shielded by a man who appeared to be their father. Another officer unleashed a police dog, which immediately attacked a stroller containing an infant. A bystander who interposed himself — and was mauled by the dog for doing so — probably saved the child’s life.
Those acts, in which private citizens protected the innocent from criminal violence at the hands of the State’s armed servants, were just as heroic as those of the three men in Aurora who died protecting their girlfriends during the shooting rampage.
Local news accounts, which retailed the department’s version of events, described the crowd as “unruly” and the protest as a “near-riot” in which angry citizens “encircled” the officers and “began throwing things, including bottles and possibly rocks, at them,” in the words of a Los Angeles Times report.The police also claimed that “several fires” had been started in trashcans. None of those claims have been been corroborated by video evidence or eyewitnesses. Nor have the police explained why the police gunned down the young man, referred to only as “Stomper,”after he and two others fled when approached by the cops.
Immediately after the shooting, several residents confronted the police to demand answers. The Anaheim PD — sensing an ominous tremor of righteous outrage on the part of a neighborhood that has endured seven “officer-involved shootings” this year — reverted to type as an army of occupation: Within a matter of minutes, the unarmed protesters were outnumbered by heavily armed cops in body armor.
In the wake of the Aurora massacre, the public has been encouraged to believe that because of private gun ownership, every public gathering place can be transformed into the scene of a massacre. The Anaheim police rampage illustrates how quickly the State’s armed enforcement caste — which, according to “gun control” activists, should have a monopoly on firearms — can turn any neighborhood into an urban war zone.
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