Anaheim Residents React to Police Shootings

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Anaheim Residents React to Police Shootings

Residents of Anaheim, Calif. got a chance to react to a recent rash of police shootings when the mayor, Tom Tait, held a special city council meeting on August 8, 2012.

The meeting was in reaction to a few police incidents but was sparked by the shooting of unarmed resident Manuel Diaz, 25. Diaz's death sparked protests that turned into rioting for several days. Police responded with rubber bullets and a police dog was let loose, biting protesters.

Tension was high in the auditorium with some residents demanding change in their police department and others offering support to the officers.

Written and produced by Paul Detrick.

Aproximately 2:43.

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[Emperor Wears No Clothes]

What are the odds the resident cop bag-licker Dunphy shows up for this one?

[MSimon]

Jack is always off in these matters.

[MSimon]

Jack says:

If you shut up, follow orders, don't complain, don't show up at protests, and bow your head in the presence of the enforcers you have nothing to fear.

[MSimon]

Police support the gangs by enforcing prohibition. A symbiotic relationship.

[Being Waterboarded]

Gangs are job security for the po-po. Same reason why the EPA is in the business of permitting - rather than restricting - pollution. Same reason why politicians love and create (fabricate?) crises. Same reason why the DEA loves drug lords. Same reason why the Dept of Education loves failing children.

Job security.

Feel free to add your own examples.

[Tironius]

Here's an example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....48764.html

[AlgerHiss]

Anaheim is right next door to Fullerton where that homeless fellow was beaten to death by the police.

Sounds like quite pleasant area to live.

[Ardelle]

Tension was high in the auditorium with some residents demanding change in their police department and others offering support to the officers.

[Tironius]

"?When images like these become the perception of your police department, your problem goes beyond numbers," the narrator says. Does Reason Magazine deal in "perception" or does it deal in numbers and facts? I would suggest that the police, and anyone thinking about this, and Reason Magazine deal in the numbers, facts, and ? ahem ? reason.

So let's be reasonable. Amid the emotion that video and images can summon against rational analysis, let's pull the facts presented in this video. The narrator says the demonstrators turned "violent." This is very serious and is glossed over. With people's and police's safety and lives at risk, police are obligated to respond in kind. An unsourced newscaster described the "rioting" (his word) and the destruction to property owned by innocent people.

Fact: Anaheim citizens protested, some rioted.

[Tironius]

Images of the "snarling dog" are shown next, the dog's handler rushing to disengage the animal after attacking "a mother holding her child" and a "bystander," according to a newscaster. The video does not show when the demonstrators turned violent, it cuts to and highlights the police reaction. Was this particular group being violent? The video does not enlighten. Either way, I cannot fathom why a mother had her child voluntarily in what would could?even remotely?be an unsafe situation. The police deserve scrutiny, yet I feel that no judgements are placed on the "one thousand" crowding the streets, and the portion among them who began the violence and destruction.

Fact: police attempted to subdue rioters with non-lethal means.

[Tironius]

The narrator then presents figures on police-related shootings where the subtext is a problem inherent with the police, with no empathy to officers who choose to work in a job where they could die or must take a life. Were the police-caused deaths in those statistics justified? Well, in a subordinate clause followed by a "but" ? a weaselly way that arguers gloss over important data that undermine their thesis ? the narrator quotes the L.A. Times about what police claim is happening: "the police blame violent gangs, and it's true that violent crime in Anaheim is increasing, BUT when images like these?" yada, yada. "But"s are great because they wash away everything said before them.

Let's see a video on this where a perspective isn't assumed.

[There was a limit of 1500 words so I chopped it up into three comments.]

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