The Anaheim pigs do it again - using violence again to suppress a peaceful police brutality protest.

[backscatter712]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/25/1113521/-All-Holy-Hell-Broke-Out-In-Anaheim-Last-Night

Two days ago Manuel Diaz, unarmed, was shot by an Anaheim policeman in the back. That day, when a protest erupted in the neighborhood, police shot rubber bullets into a crowd with children running around and at least one mother and her baby in it, even (possibly accidently) unleashing a police dog that injured at least one person. Last night, protesters out rallying against police violence were given yet another taste of... police violence.

Riot police fired bean bag rounds and pepper balls into a crowd of protestors late Tuesday outside City Hall as council members inside voted unanimously to ask the U.S. attorney's office to investigate recent officer-involved shootings, including one of an unarmed man.

About 250 riot police were called in by officials to quell the more than 600 demonstrators before restoring order. Twenty-four people were arrested in the unrest.

[gopiscrap]

1. Typical cop behaviour

[backscatter712]

4. They love hurting people. Especially when they're not white.

The police think inflicting concussions, welts and potentially lethal injuries is funny. It's something they laugh over in their cop bars over boilermakers.

[hedgehog]

2. "That day, when a protest erupted in the neighborhood,"

It looked to me more like twenty or so people rubber necking to see what all the fuss was about! If that was "an incipient riot" , don't ever let those cops patrol a mall on Black Friday!

[malthaussen]

3. I love "restored order."

The Anaheim Police: first we explode order, then we restore it. Hey, it keeps us in work.

-- Mal

[Initech]

5. I live in the Anaheim area - the police here suck.

The fact that they're using such tactics to deter protestors doesn't surprise me in the slightest.