10 years ago, "on the afternoon of July 21, 2012, two Anaheim cops and a civilian on a ride-along rolled up on an Anna Drive alley in a gang-suppression police car." When 25-year-old, unarmed Manuel Diaz ran, Anaheim pig Nick "Buckshot" Bannallack shot him twice, killing him. 
When the community immediately gathered to discover what police had done - and as Diaz's body laid handcuffed and lifeless in the sweltering, summer sun nearby - Anaheim police then unleashed rubber bullets and a vicious K9 on the neighbors, including a child in a stroller.
CN: death, victim, police, shooting, dead body
“it appeared as if he had removed the object that I believed to be a firearm from his waistband,” Bennallack said... [but] there was no gun. A cell phone and a glass pipe were said to have been recovered..." ocweekly.com/manuel-diaz-oc…
“it appeared as if he had removed the object that I believed to be a firearm from his waistband,” Bennallack said... [but] there was no gun. A cell phone and a glass pipe were said to have been recovered..." ocweekly.com/manuel-diaz-oc…
10 days and nights of street unrest - as well as brutal police repression - immediately followed.
During the days, there were large, lumbering and organized protest marches and rallies. One that very first weekend intended to go from police HQ to Disneyland, but was attacked by Anaheim police and a slew of other local pigs called up in "mutual aid."
I took the photo on the left of the shotgun shooter and his comms/spotter team on the roof of Anaheim PD with a pig helo circling above at that Disneyland march.
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/504132772848365569?s=20&t=WRmjnrw8JvYHNSmiR4ZtTg
I also took this photo of the fortress police made of Anaheim PD HQ.
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/229712698286419968?s=20&t=WRmjnrw8JvYHNSmiR4ZtTg
What little information from that ten day uprising that did make national news was peppered with #copaganda like this: "Police said that several gang members incited the crowd, according to KABC-TV." abcnews.go.com/US/anaheim-pol…
En Español... democracynow.org/es/2012/7/24/p…
"Genevieve Huizar, the mother of Manuel Diaz, who was shot to death by Anaheim police, breaks down after pleading for a stop to the violence and says she doesn't want that to be her son's legacy after a news conference in Santa Ana, Calif." timesunion.com/news/article/M…
Years later - after being dragged humiliatingly through a "justice system" arrayed against her over subsequent years and under unrelenting, direct police intimidation - Huizar would heart-wrenchingly recant her previous calls for peace.
It's heartbreaking to hear Huizar regret her calls for peace because those of us involved in anti-police organizing, especially street militants, are frequently and intentionally pitted against "the families" like this. She says, sadly much later, what we would've said then.😢
Not to be forgotten, however, the very next day - after murdering Manuel Diaz - another serial killer APD officer, Kelly Phillips, murdered 21-year-old Joel Acevedo nearby. Phillips had previously shot and killed Caesar Cruz on December 11, 2009. ocweekly.com/anaheim-cop-wh…
Did I say *another* serial killer cop had murdered Joel Acevedo? I did. Because it would later be revealed that Nick "Buckshot" Bannalack, the pig who murdered Manuel Diaz, had already murdered one person and would go on to kill another still afterwards. mynewsla.com/orange-county/…
After 10 days of street unity, cracks and fissures emerged in the fragile coalition that kept fires burning in Anaheim. Police repression, diverging interests and media-promulgated police narratives (copaganda) about "outside agitators" took their toll. web.archive.org/web/2012111311…
The killing of Acevedo didn't get as much attention as the killing of Diaz. *They* found a gun on him, and - despite the fact that pigs plant guns all the motherfucking time - the fact that he, too, was shot in the back by a serial killer cop wasn't enough to generate outrage.
After street militancy dissipated, sustained media narratives - sown directly by police about gangs on Anna Drive in Anaheim controlling the uprising - built the necessary political will to conduct massive, retaliatory raids against the community there.
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/633792809800175616?s=20&t=X9o3z1sVOS8JfSbDNhQEHg
There was, unfortunately, still more in store for Diaz's family. A rollercoaster ride of dismissals, appeals and maybe, just maybe, a slap on the wrist for police through the "justice system."
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/509758102783004673?s=20&t=X9o3z1sVOS8JfSbDNhQEHg
Slogging through their courts... abc7.com/anaheim-police…
A civil suit eventually prevailed. $50,000 for Diaz's loss of life and $150,000 for his family's pain and suffering. voiceofoc.org/2017/11/jury-a…
In 2014, right at the beginning of the bodycam push by a bunch of liberal asshats, Anaheim gave its police body cameras - which, if you've followed me for any length of time - you know I think is totally awesome and surely solved everything...
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/509621350869114880?s=20&t=X9o3z1sVOS8JfSbDNhQEHg
And that's why you only hear good things about Anaheim police now...
Ahem...
They don't call it "KLAnaheim" for nothing...
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/704803728235298816?s=20&t=X9o3z1sVOS8JfSbDNhQEHg
See? Everything is better now!
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/933316660462850051?s=20&t=X9o3z1sVOS8JfSbDNhQEHg
APD gets in on the Fentanyl Panic bullshit. Good thing they got all those bodycams.
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1432036704639021056?s=20&t=X9o3z1sVOS8JfSbDNhQEHg
APD took over operational control from Santa Ana pigs just so they could finish a hit in 2021.
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1443760866529144836?s=20&t=X9o3z1sVOS8JfSbDNhQEHg
Serial killer Anaheim cops, you say???
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/1466529593372942348?s=20&t=X9o3z1sVOS8JfSbDNhQEHg
Anyway, keeping Manuel Diaz and Joel Acevedo's names alive today. Fuck APD. Fuck every cop in every city. Thanks for reading.
"activists petitioned Harris’ office demanding she conduct an independent investigation. [She said she] intended to wait for the OC DA’s office to conclude its investigation... Ultimately, the OC DA would clear the officers, [Harris did nothing]..." pastemagazine.com/politics/kamal…
Meanwhile, serial killer Nick "Buckshot" Bannallack has upped his body count to 4. | "Officer Nick Bennallack, who was cleared of three other on-duty deadly shootings of suspects since 2012, fatally shot 30-year-old Daniel Ramirez III on April 4, 2019." nbclosangeles.com/news/local/ana…
Fuck. I didn't even know that one. I still thought he *only* murdered three. Kinda lost track after 2019. Had some personal shit back in those days and then the world ended or whatnot. But damn. How can you kill four people and still be a cop? With our Vice President's help...
"Huizar, Diaz’s mother, died last year from COVID-19. Bennallack, who a jury found liable for excessive force in a civil trial, is no longer with APD. Phillips received a distinguished service award from the department in 2014 and ]is now] a sergeant." archive.is/zw3uL#selectio…
An eyewitness to the Joel Acevedo murder said "police chased and shot at Acevedo two days before his killing and that on the night of July 22, she witnessed his execution. Phillips drag a wounded but still alive Acevedo back toward an empty parking spot" and executed him.
Sidenote: I know this guy from OccupyLA. Nice enough guy. But he was one of those guys who would grab a megaphone and offer riot police to pay for a "pizza party" if they'd just go home. It was silly. He liked silly stunts. APD beat his ass. He sued & won.
https://twitter.com/OLAASM/status/495076481127550979?s=20&t=WYd7c69NcFmZfddKUWaJTg
I bet that protest dude with the silly sign who got roughed up got more in his lawsuit/settlement from Anaheim than the Diaz family got for Diaz's murder. I should ask him.
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