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   From: mexicans@badnews.com   
      
   By JENNIFER MEDINA   
   ANAHEIM, Calif. — Violent protests have stretched on through the   
   week here after unrelated police shootings over the weekend left   
   two men dead, including one who was apparently unarmed.   
      
   As the City Council prepared to hear from angry residents on   
   Tuesday, the fourth night of protest, the crowd swelled to   
   nearly 1,000, and there were two dozen arrests, officials said   
   Wednesday.   
      
   The protests have shaken up this Orange County city, most famous   
   as the home of Disneyland. Tensions between the police and   
   residents, which have simmered for years, broke out shortly   
   after Manuel Diaz, 25, was shot and killed by the police on   
   Saturday.   
      
   On Tuesday, as hundreds of people packed City Hall for a City   
   Council meeting, a crowd outside grew in size and became   
   violent, throwing rocks and bottles at police cars. One man   
   reportedly had a handgun and was later arrested.   
      
   A short while later, the demonstrators moved through downtown,   
   taking over an intersection, setting fires and damaging 20   
   businesses, officials said. Looters broke several storefront   
   windows, and in at least one incident a fight broke out when an   
   older resident tried to stop a young woman stealing from a store   
   window.   
      
   The police declared the gathering an unlawful assembly around 9   
   p.m., and some 300 officers in riot gear used batons, pepper   
   balls and beanbag bullets to disperse the crowd.   
      
   At a news conference on Wednesday, Mayor Tom Tait, who has asked   
   for state and federal investigations into the shootings, said he   
   was pleased with the police response.   
      
   “The first step is to get to the truth,” Mr. Tait said. “That   
   takes some time and patience, and that’s what I’m asking for.”   
      
   “Violence and vandalism have no place in the conversation,” he   
   added.   
      
   Chief John Welter of the Anaheim Police Department said it would   
   review videos posted on the Internet to find “lawbreakers in the   
   crowd.”   
      
   “We will not allow riotous, dangerous violations of the law by   
   anyone,” Mr. Welter said. “We will protect innocent people from   
   being injured and property from being damaged.”   
      
   Officials said they had contingency plans in place for the rest   
   of the week in case of more violent protests, but they would not   
   elaborate.   
      
   Six people, including one police officer said to have been hit   
   with a rock, were reported injured, although none seriously. The   
   charges against those arrested included assault with a deadly   
   weapon, battery and resisting arrest.   
      
   The police said they believed roughly two-thirds of the   
   protesters were from outside Anaheim. But the majority of those   
   arrested were city residents, they said.   
      
   Mr. Tait said he would meet with federal officials, who have   
   agreed to review Saturday’s shooting to see whether a civil   
   rights inquiry is needed. The district attorney and state   
   attorney general are also investigating the shootings.   
      
   The family of Mr. Diaz, the first of the two men killed by the   
   police, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, asserting that he was   
   unarmed when he was shot, fell to his knees and then was shot   
   again, in the back of the head.   
      
   “In a poor brown neighborhood, the kids, especially the boys,   
   know to avoid the police, because it never ends well,” said Dana   
   Douglas, a lawyer for the Diaz family.   
      
   Genevieve Huizar, Mr. Diaz’s mother, broke down after a news   
   conference. She spoke of her son’s devoted care for his 14   
   nieces and nephews and his dreams of making his own family. When   
   he told her he wanted to join the military, she strongly   
   objected, she said.   
      
   “I didn’t want him to go over there and die,” she said, choking   
   back tears. “Maybe I should have let him and everything would be   
   different. Only God knows.”   
      
   Both the mayor and police chief have declined to offer any   
   public explanation of the shooting, but Kerry Condon, the   
   president of the Anaheim Police Association, has said that Mr.   
   Diaz appeared to be carrying a “concealed object in his front   
   waistband with both hands,” and that he ran off, pulled the   
   object out of his waistband and turned to the officers.   
      
   “Feeling that Diaz was drawing a weapon, the officer opened fire   
   on Diaz to stop the threat,” Mr. Condon said. No gun has been   
   recovered from the site.   
      
   The other man killed by the police, Joel Mathew Acevedo, 21, was   
   shot after officers tried to stop his car on Sunday. The police   
   say that he tried to flee on foot and that he then opened fire   
   on them. The police said that both Mr. Acevedo and Mr. Diaz were   
   gang members with criminal records.   
      
   There have been six shootings by Anaheim police officers so far   
   this year, all but one fatal.   
      
   http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/26/us/after-night-of-protest-and-   
   arrests-anaheim-vows-to-crack-down.html   
      
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