Police in the California city of Anaheim are facing allegations of
murder and brutality after fatally shooting two Latino men over the
weekend and firing rubber bullets at crowds of protesters. On Saturday,
Anaheim police shot and killed 24-year-old Manuel Diaz after he
reportedly ran away from a group of officers who confronted him in the
street. Diaz was unarmed. Hours after his death, a chaotic scene broke
out when police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at a crowd of local
residents protesting the shooting. Another Latino resident, Joel
Acevedo, was shot dead by police the following day. Police say Acevedo
was suspected in a car robbery, but the circumstances around his death
remain unconfirmed. We discuss the situation in Anaheim with Gustavo
Arellano, editor of the alternative newspaper, OC Weekly, and Theresa
Smith, who has worked with families to call for police accountability in
Anaheim since 2009, when officers shot and killed her son, Cesar Cruz, a
35-year-old father of five. "Given the fact that this is the eighth
officer-involved shooting within one year in the city of Anaheim ... the
community is going to be very upset," Arellano says. "There’s a lot of
angry residents, and rightfully so."Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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