Anaheim Police Shooting

"Is Anaheim police really protecting our communities? They're not protecting our communities. They're killing our kids"

 "no justice, no peace" "cops, pigs, murderers"

"The whole system is guilty" "Am I next?"

Facts are still pouring in on this story, but here are the basics according to ABC News as I understand them thus far:

Police were pursuing three suspects into an alley in Anaheim at about 4 p.m. Saturday when they chased 25-year-old Manuel Angel Diaz. The man was confronted by an officer at the front of an apartment complex, where he was shot. Diaz later died in the hospital, while the two other suspects managed to evade the police.

The local community is not happy about how this situation went down.  The fact that the victim was a potential gang member and heroin dealer doesn't deter them from wanting answers as to why this man was shot.  The story goes on to say:

Hours after the shooting, area residents took to the streets, setting a dumpster on fire and tossing rocks and bottles at police officers who were investigating the shooting. As officers attempted to diffuse the unrest, they fired rubber bullets and doused the crowd with pepper spray.

Further instigation of the massive outcry came when:

In the midst of the melee, police released a K-9 dog into the crowd. Video of the scene shows the dog charging at the crowd, which included a woman with a child, before it attacked a man by biting his arm.

The Associated Press reveals more information when they reported:

In the largely Hispanic, working-class neighborhood where 25-year-old Manuel Diaz was killed Saturday afternoon, residents left candles, flowers and posters blasting police and questioned why officers would shoot a man they said was a gang member but didn't have a gun or appear to be committing a crime.

They also added to the story comments from an eye witness:

"He was laying there, dead," Gallardo said, adding that he saw bullet marks in his friend's lower back and neck. "They were searching him — I was like, why are you searching him? He's dead right there."

On Tuesday the protests intensified and according to Christian Science Monitor:

Protesters broke windows of least a half-dozen storefronts in Anaheim on Tuesday and five people were arrested in the second major clash between police and demonstrators since an officer shot dead an apparently unarmed man.

"This is not quite 'The Happiest Place on Earth,' and now the world knows it,"

"If I wore baggy clothes and had a shaved head, would they shoot me, too?"