Tag Archives: bob dunn

Everywhere, there are more cops shooting more people

In July 2012, with more than half the year over, police departments around the nation suddenly realized that their cops were shooting people at alarming and in many cases unprecedented rates. Here is a collection of articles about police departments trying to make sense of the carnage they have inflicted in the year 2012 in […]

Anaheim police shot and killed another Latino man, Joel Acevedo, 24 hours after killing Manuel Diaz

Family friends tell the Weekly that the man shot and killed by Anaheim police late Sunday night is Joel Acevedo of Anaheim. Facebook Acevedo, at right I found out about this via Facebook, as the mother of Acevedo is a friend of mine. After posting about the earlier melees, the mother (whose name I won’t […]

Video – No reason given for cop shooting man in Anaheim – families have protested number of officer involved shootings from this department

“[Officers] attempted to make contact with three subjects. During that contact, the three subjects fled. A foot pursuit ensued. During that foot pursuit, one of our officers encountered one of the males who they had been chasing, and an officer involved shooting occurred. Only one person was hit during that officer involved shooting, that was […]