Atrocities In Anaheim, CA: News Blackout Hides Police Killing And Brutility

Thursday, August 2, 2012 12:31
By muckracker1
Police killings, military fatigue-clad SWAT teams, blocked streets, and the terrorization of men, women and children with attack dogs and rubber bullets. By these signs, the land just beyond Disney’s “Magic Kingdom” appears to be under siege.

See footage of a violent altercation between police and members of Anaheim’s Latino community below.

—Posted by Alexander Reed Kelly. Follow him on Twitter: @areedkelly.

Natasha Lennard at Salon:

The militaristic spectacle comes in response to an upsurge in already regular police brutality protests in Anaheim. In the past 10 days Anaheim police shot dead two young Latino men — the fourth and fifth fatal police shootings in the area this year alone (four of which involved Hispanic men). This is Anaheim, outside of the Happiest Place on Earth™; a long-festering situation of inequality and police aggression falling — as is so often the case — along racial fault lines and beyond the media gaze.



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