Police brutality story heats up: Anaheim PD faces evidence-buying claims

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Witnesses to the fatal police shooting of an unarmed man in Anaheim, California say officers offered to buy up cell phone footage of the brutality that followed. The circumstances of the shooting are currently under investigation.

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A few hours after shooting 24-year-old Manuel Diaz as he ran from police at around 4pm Saturday, officers unleashed rubber bullets and an attack dog on a crowd of witnesses – most of them women and children – who confronted police over the incident as they gathered evidence.


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Yeah...Has all the right stuff to get out of control. The sooner the police learn they are not the law the better off they will be.

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Originally Posted by code242

Yeah...Has all the right stuff to get out of control. The sooner the police learn they are not the law the better off they will be.

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Thats very true. Hope it don't get to bad.

Offering to "purchase" cell phone footage of the shooting of an unarmed citizen? Wow! Now that's a hot potato. If it can be proven in court, these guys will have no other choice but to get a harsh penalty from the jury. However, I think a long time from now when this goes to trial, these officers? The trial will have been moved to a nearby suburb. The cops lawyers are gonna definitely try and get this trial to a more "sympathetic" area of Anaheim. Which means that short of an officer dancing around or playing "Weekend At Bernies", with the corpse of the fallen resident, they'll all walk free.