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Monday, July 23, 2012

Cops Police Shootings in Anaheim Spark Major Protests

Posted by Sarah Mirk on Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:44 PM

Things have been going crazy in Anaheim, California the past few days: First, police shot and killed an unarmed man who was running away; then hundreds of people protested the shooting and ended up lighting trash cans on fire; then late last night, Anaheim police shot and killed another man.

The video going around the internet today is this clip of a police dog running into a small crowd that includes small children—Anaheim police say it was a mistake:

After the death of Aaron Campbell and Jack Dale Collins, Portland had a string of anti-police brutality protests, but none that wound up as violently as Anaheim's seems to have become.

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