Police attack Anaheim residents after police shooting

[Leftsolidarity]

ANAHEIM (CBS/AP) — A police shooting that left a man dead led to a near riot Saturday as angry witnesses threw bottles at officers who responded with tear gas and beanbag rounds.
The man was shot around 4 p.m. in front of an apartment complex on the 600 block of North Anna Drive 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 said.
Residents, protesting what they say is an increased police violence against them in the community, started the near riot after the shooting on nearby La Palma.
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 said.
Dunn said he could not comment on these allegations because the shooting is under investigation.
Jay Jackson, reporting for CBS2 and KCAL9, said Saturday night’s scene was chaotic.
The residents blocked off a street and set fire to at least one dumpster.

Earlier in the day, police in riot gear, fired rubber bullets into the crowd. Several protesters lifted their shirts to show large red welts on their torsos and backs.
Residents told Jackson that police overreacted and created the disturbance.
One man said, “They just started shooting.”
Police also set a K-9 officer on one woman and a bystander they said were agitating the situation.
Said Susan Lopez, “I had my baby with me. My baby! The dog scratched me and then grabbed me.” She added, “They shot at me while I was holding a baby!” Another woman yelled, “They just shot at us, they shot at a little kid, too.”
According to police, two patrol officers observed three male suspects in an alley.
Police said the suspects tried to flee on foot when a chase ensued.
The shooting reportedly occurred after one of the officers encountered one of the suspects in a courtyard.
No officers were injured.
The other two suspects are at-large.
Dunn said, “What exactly led to the shooting, we don’t know. We’re still investigating. But a shooting did occur. And the male was taken to a hospital.”
Authorities said the circumstances regarding the shooting were under investigation by members of the gangs unit and Orange County District Attorney’s office.
Four people told Jackson that police offered to buy their cell phone video.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/07/21/officer-involved-shooting-reported-in-anaheim/ (http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flosangeles.cbslocal.com%2F201 2%2F07%2F21%2Fofficer-involved-shooting-reported-in-anaheim%2F&h=WAQENkHnE)

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[Leftsolidarity]

Update:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/23/manuel-diaz-dead_n_1693874.html



ANAHEIM, Calif. — Demonstrators stormed a police department in Orange County, Calif., on Sunday to protest an officer-involved shooting that left an unarmed man dead and led to a violent clash between witnesses and police.
A crowd swarmed the Anaheim Police headquarters' lobby Sunday as Chief John Welter held a news conference to discuss what happened the night before. The protesters chanted "no justice, no peace" and "cops, pigs, murderers" as officers stood by and watched.
Welter said two officers were placed on paid leave after one of them fatally shot 24-year-old Manuel Diaz.
He said the officers approached three men in an alleyway when they ran away. One of the officers chased Diaz to the front of an apartment complex where the shooting occurred.
Welter would not say what led the officer to shoot Diaz, citing an independent investigation by the county's district attorney office. Police said Diaz was a known gang member.
Mayor Tom Tait said he will ask the state attorney general to assist in the probe.
"Transparency is essential. Whatever the truth is, we will own it," Tait said.
The shooting sparked a melee in the neighborhood as some threw rocks and bottles at officers who were securing the scene for investigators to collect evidence. Sgt. Bob Dunn, the department's spokesman, said that as officers detained an instigator, the crowd advanced on officers so they fired bean bags and pepper balls at them.
Video captured by a KCAL-TV crew showed a chaotic scene as some people ducked to the ground and 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 charged at several people sitting on the grass, including a woman and a child in a stroller, before biting a man in the arm.

Dunn said the dog accidentally got out of a patrol car. He said he didn't know whether police warned the crowd to disperse before firing the rubber bullets and pepper balls.
Throughout the night, police in multiple marked and unmarked squad cars attempted to control an unruly crowd gathered near the shooting scene, the Orange County 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 five people, two of them juveniles, were arrested during the unrest. He said gang detectives are involved in the investigation.
Crystal Ventura, a 17-year-old who witnessed the shooting, told the Register that the man had his back to the officer. Ventura said the man was shot in the buttocks area. The man then went down on his knees, she said, adding that he was struck by another bullet in the head. Ventura said another officer handcuffed the man, who by then was on the ground and not moving.
"They searched his pockets, and there was a hole in his head, and I saw blood on his face," Ventura told the newspaper.
Dunn said he could not comment on these allegations because the shooting is under investigation.
The other two men who ran away have not been captured, but police impounded their vehicle which was abandoned at the scene, Dunn said.

[bcbm]

saw this on fb, fucked up shit but not surprising. acab

[Jimmie Higgins]

Here it is in brief. Anaheim Ca, Police (the town that Disneyland is located in) approach a group of young men and shoot a young Latino man after he tries to run away. He was unarmed and when neighbors protested and demanded answers by police, the cops fired led "bean bags" and rubber bullets at the neighbors - including children - and used a police dog on a woman who was holding her infant daughter.

The media - of course - calls it a riot but it was the cops who were clearly the rioters. According to reports, neighbors used dumpsters and tried to set up a barricade to keep the police out of their neighborhood. In another protest, people temporarily There have now been two nights of protests against this and according to the LA Times, protesters "stormed" the Police HQ lobby. One other detail is that the cops tried to buy the cell phones and video cameras of witnesses.

This story has the video of police dogs and police pigs attacking the neighbors:
http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/07/21/officer-involved-shooting-reported-in-anaheim/

This video shows the standard operating procedure of cops after they kill someone: CYA. The worst thing is that in many of these cases the shooting victim is still alive while the cops spend their time "controlling the crowd" and "examining the scene" before calling in medics. For Oscar Grant in Oakland, this probably meant the difference between reaching the hospital alive or dead as police tried to confiscate video cameras and cell phones rather than attend to the kid they shot. Alan Blueford who was shot by OPD recently also died in the HOURS in-between the shooting and when the medics came.

http://laist.com/2012/07/22/video_aftermath_of_police_shooting.php

[bcbm]

there is a thread on this in ongoing struggles

[Jimmie Higgins]

Shit, and now this report of the same Police Department shooting someone who'd already been in handcuffs.

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2012/07/another_man_possibly_shot_by_a.php

[Jimmie Higgins]

there is a thread on this in ongoing strugglesOops, can someone merge this into that thread?

[bcbm]

yep, merged.

[Per Levy]

fuck the pigs, and adding insult to injury, the murderers in uniform will get away with it as ususal.

[Martin Blank]

fuck the pigs, and adding insult to injury, the murderers in uniform will get away with it as usual.

Of course. The fix was in when the cops got a vacation ("paid leave") as a reward for killing Diaz.

Just another example of why armed workers' self-defense is necessary.

[Jimmie Higgins]

A couple of pretty common but often overlooked (in the media) things with this Friday murder by the cops is that the victim was doing fuck-all when the gang of cops came up on the group of people.

They may have had drugs on them; or they might have even been selling drugs; or they might have been on parole and were afraid that if they were caught associating with each-other they'd end up with a parole violation; they might have just seen cops coming at them and freaked because of past negative interactions. I doesn't really matter - this is how "policing" is done in the US: stop as many poor people as possible and some of them are bound to have something on them... do it often and systemically enough then some more are bound to have past violations and probation which restricts who you can be with (such as other ex-felons, who might be your neighbors or relatives or friends) and even being unemployed can be a violation.

It's the outright criminalization of huge chunks of the American working class and poor - particularly poor people from oppressed groups, which should be obvious to anyone on this site.


fuck the pigs, and adding insult to injury, the murderers in uniform will get away with it as ususal. Probably - that's the general rule barring pressure from below. But part of how cops can get away with this is the internalization by the population of their "untouchable status". A lot of their gear is just psychological intimidation, they want us to believe that they are above repercussions (which is true in the legal sphere, but not always historically true in society) and they love playing "good cop/bad cop" in a bigger sense of playing friendly with the middle class and with all their PR while being boastfully and blatantly cruel to their targets and victims.

But what the neighbors have done in this case shows the seams in the enforcement end of the "war on crime". I went to the store a little while ago and while I was buying my milk and tequila, the cops shot a homeless man outside and a huge crowd gathered. All the apartments nearby emptied as people went to find out what was going on and if shit had gone down then it would have been something like a "mini-riot" like what happened in So Cal. Check out the CopWatch videos by Jazz Hayden where people gather to jeer at NYC cops arresting people in "stop and frisk" (i.e. no consent needed) searches for as little as half a joint.

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http://www.villagevoice.com/2012-02-08/news/frisky-business-NYPD-jazz-hayden/

There's plenty of anger and willingness to do something about this - but people feel like there's little they can actually do. They've internalized the sense that there's nothing to do about the racist and (legally) untouchable nature of the US police and/or they have been targeted and tapped themselves and so don't want to risk a parole violation. It's part of the reason the system is set up as it is - everyone is treated as guilty and it's intimidating.

For that reason, linking up the small groups of people willing to do something (on a grassroots level, not merely legal because the system is set up to insulate itself from legal challenges), or directly effected can help build coalitions or movements to organize this widespread sentiment. Such movements could potentially have a major impact on class consciousness and confidence in the US, though it would be a difficult uphill struggle.

[Clifford C Clavin]

Depends what you want them to do. Organize themselves or appeal to the bourgeoisie.

[Jimmie Higgins]

Anyone on this site live around there?

[Art Vandelay]

A.C.A.B.

They'll get there's one day; we'll make sure of it.

[Ele'ill]

another shooting a day later

http://rt.com/usa/news/anaheim-police-shoot-another-833/


Anaheim police have shot dead yet another man just a day after killing 24-year old Manuel Diaz. The previous day's shooting sparked a protest against police brutality that was violently broken up by authorities.
Police say the second shooting took place on Sunday, when anti-gang crime officers spotted a stolen SUV and started chasing it. Three suspects were said to have jumped out of the SUV, with police continuing their pursuit on foot. The men reportedly opened fire at an officer, and the policeman retaliated by shooting dead one of the shooters.
However, eyewitnesses say police shot dead a man who was already handcuffed, OC Weekly reports.
Family friends told the Weekly that the victim was Joel Acevedo, a resident of Anaheim.
Residents on the scene allegedly tried to take photos from a second floor of an apartment block, but police obscured their view with flash lights. The second alleged killing took place a few blocks away from the place where 24-year-old Manuel Diaz was gunned down by police on Saturday.

[ckaihatsu]

BREAKING: ANSWER Los Angeles office ransacked & robbed following Anaheim protest


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That night, the ANSWER office in Los Angeles was broken into, ransacked and robbed. All of our computers, ten total, were stolen, in addition to all of our sound equipment and our bullhorns — the things essential to organizing and conducting protest actions. We had many other losses too and our files were ransacked.

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[ckaihatsu]

Protests, police repression continue in Anaheim, California

http://wsws.org/articles/2012/jul2012/anah-j26.shtml

[Ele'ill]

some videos

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Now in Dallas, hundreds in the street

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[Ele'ill]

hey listen to this dumb punk go on about 'respect' and 'our city'

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[Ele'ill]

Anaheim solidarity demo tonight in Portland

[KurtFF8]

http://news.yahoo.com/anaheim-police-shoot-burglary-suspect-131455034.html


ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Anaheim police have opened fire on a burglary suspect, days after officer-involved shootings killed two people and sparked violent protests.
Sgt. Bob Dunn says it's unclear whether anyone was hit in Friday morning's confrontation, but no one has showed up at a hospital.
Dunn says officers responding to a burglar alarm at about 3:15 a.m. at a community clubhouse saw appliances in the street and a man leaving the building. An officer chased him, and another checked out a nearby car that suddenly took off, heading toward the first officer.
Dunn says the second officer opened fire but the driver escaped.
Dunn says the man being chased on foot was later found hiding near some train tracks. Dunn says the man is a paroled burglar and was treated for a police dog bite.

[Robocommie]

hey listen to this dumb punk go on about 'respect' and 'our city'

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Unfathomably poor taste, in the context of two highly controversial killings of unarmed people, to then go on to say, "Nice job police, keep up the good work"

You're a civil servant, you asshole! SERVE THE CIVILIANS!

[Ocean Seal]

Of course. The fix was in when the cops got a vacation ("paid leave") as a reward for killing Diaz.

Just another example of why armed workers' self-defense is necessary.
Yes, and for all those who deride the Panthers (and there are legitimate reasons for criticism) we must acknowledge that sticking guns to the pigs was one of the steps towards organic workers organization in the most oppressed sectors of the working class.

[A Marxist Historian]

Unfathomably poor taste, in the context of two highly controversial killings of unarmed people, to then go on to say, "Nice job police, keep up the good work"

You're a civil servant, you asshole! SERVE THE CIVILIANS!

This is not poor taste, it is capitalist taste, which the ruling class revels in.

American police are not "civil" servants, they "protect and serve" the ruling class and the capitalist system.

And there is nothing "controversial" about police killings of unarmed people, it is just what they do. Sharks gotta swim, bats gotta fly, and no cops in an urban setting can be happy if they don't get to kill people now and then to prove nobody should mess with them.

-M.H.-