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<span class="date-display-single">Fri, 03/08/2012</span> </div>
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<div class="glw-authors">By <span class="glwnews-article-location"><a href="/taxonomy/term/471">Barry Sheppard</a></span></div><p>Police shot and killed a 25-year-old Latino man, Manuel Diaz, in Anaheim, California, in his front yard on July 21 Diaz was not armed.</p>
<p>With hours of the murder, hundreds of angry residents took to the streets in protest. The cops attacked the demonstrators with clubs, pepper spray and bean bag bullets.</p>
<p>One protester was grabbed by a cop (who had his hand on his gun) for carrying a protest sign as he was walking toward the demonstration. He was charged with “jaywalking.”</p>
<p><a href="http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/51766" target="_blank">read more</a></p>