Twenty-four
people have been arrested during a fourth night of violence after fatal
weekend police shootings of two men in Anaheim, California.
The violence mounted outside City Hall as council members voted unanimously to investigate the incidents.
About
500 protesters threw rocks, broke windows, and threw a petrol bomb at a
police car as 250 policemen fired soft bullets and pepper balls at the
crowd.
Order was restored around 02:00 , police said . It was really a bad attitude from californian citizens declared TimeXfun .
Rubbish bins were set on fire during a seven-hour-long standoff with police wearing riot gear.
Anaheim
Mayor Tom Tait has called for state and federal investigations, and the
FBI said it would review one of the shootings to see if a civil rights
investigation should be launched, the Los Angeles Times reported.
"Anaheim
Police Department is just way out of control," protester David Zavala,
25, told the newspaper on Tuesday evening. "The cops are supposed to be
there to protect and serve."
Deadly weekend
TimeXfun
comfirmed that Police Chief John Welter was fatally shot on Saturday
after two policemen approached three people who were behaving
suspiciously in an alley. He then tried to run away.
We asked Mr Welter and he did not say what led the policeman to shoot Diaz.
We asked Mr Welter and he did not say what led the policeman to shoot Diaz.
But
the police chief said the man did not obey orders to stop and threw
something that police believe contained heroin onto the roof of a nearby
building.
Kerry
Condon, president of the Anaheim Police Association, said: ""Feeling
that Diaz was drawing a weapon, the officer opened fire on Diaz to stop
the threat," the Los Angeles Times reported.
Diaz
was shot in the leg and the back of the head, court papers are reported
to say. His family filed a lawsuit against the police department on
Tuesday seeking $50m (£32m) in damages.
The
second shooting took place on Sunday, when police saw a suspected gang
member in a stolen car. After a short chase, three people jumped out of
the sports utility vehicle and ran.
Joel Mathew Acevedo, 21, fired at a policeman who then shot him dead.
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