Protesting Police In Anaheim

Discussion in 'Latest Hip News Stories' started by usedtobehoney, Jul 24, 2012.

  1. usedtobehoney

    usedtobehoney Senior Member

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    In Anaheim, CA there was recently a young, unarmed latino man who was killed by police in front of an apartment building, after running.

    He was allegedly a gang member, but there appears to be no evidence that he was doing anything wrong (though suspicious, according to the article) besides running from the police.

    The local community was setting up a protest (or in some articles it says they were protesting) when the police dropped in and shot at the crowd of women, children, babies and men, of course, with non-lethal rounds.

    There was a video posted on facebook going around, but it was removed due to copyright...so they say.

    It looks like this story is being heavily censored all over the place, hard to get the full story, but here's one take:
    http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...sts-erupt-over-police-shooting-of-unarmed-man
     
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    skip Founder Administrator

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    There was another, even bigger, more violent protest the next day. However yesterday, the mother of the victim appealed to everyone to stop protesting.
     
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    What about Kelly Thompson? Homeless man beaten to within an inch of death by no less than 13 officers at once for doing absolutely nothing. Only 2 officers were charged with anything, after the police tried to pay off Kelly's father (also a member of the police organization) to leave town and let the issue disappear.
     
  4. usedtobehoney

    usedtobehoney Senior Member

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    Wow...jolom...didn't hear about that...Was that in Anaheim too?
     
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