Two dozen protesters were arrested by police in Anaheim, California, during a rally attended by hundreds of people calling for the arrest of an off-duty white police officer who fired a gun during a scuffle with a Hispanic teenager.
The shooting by the Los Angeles police officer that ignited Wednesday’s protest occurred on Tuesday and was captured on a cell phone video. Nobody was wounded in the shooting.
Some of the 300 protesters threw rocks at police officers in riot gear, kicked police cars and blocked intersections as they marched and chanted “don’t shoot the kids” and “whose streets, our streets” on Wednesday night, the Los Angeles Times reported on Thursday.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) said it has launched an internal investigation into the officer’s actions but insisted the confrontation “began over ongoing issues with juveniles walking across the officer’s property.”
“Like many in the community, I’ve seen the video and I’m very…