08/06/2012
Searching around for links to add to Nicholas Stix’s Anaheim piece tonight, I came across this fascinating demographic chart, and looking at it, you would ALMOST think that the reporters were starting to get it. Then you read the article … and there’s nothing about immigration.The article does say that Anaheim has been leading up to this for a long time. This is true. As Peter Brimelow pointed out in an American Conservativearticle, it was as long ago as 1993 that
Barbara Coe of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform was fired by the Anaheim Police Department, where she managed the Crime Analysis Unit, because she persisted in drawing to the attention of her superiors the dramatic increase in immigrant crime.
Anaheim shootings, protests: Anger, politics, powerBy DOUG IRVING, ERIC CARPENTER, DENISSE SALAZAR and ALEJANDRA MOLINA / THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
ANAHEIM — This was the Anaheim that the world saw in recent weeks: Protesters streaming by the hundreds down city streets. Police officers dressed in black-padded body armor wielding batons and beanbag shotguns. Store windows shattered. Dumpsters on fire.
The protests laid bare years of growing resentment and deep division in a city best known as the home of the Happiest Place on Earth. They tapped into anger over politics and power, over crime and police — over the very direction of Orange County’s biggest city.
Interviews with protesters, political leaders, police and residents of Anaheim show that the recent unrest was never just about the police shootings that first sent people into the streets. The groundwork had been laid for Anaheim to explode.
The shootings just lit the fuse.
POLITICS AND POWER
Manuel Diaz bolted when he saw police on the afternoon of July 21, racing down an alleyway and across the front yard of a threadbare apartment complex. What happened next brought television news vans and outside protesters to a part of the city that has seldom seen the spotlight.
Police shot and killed Diaz in the home neighborhood of a gang they describe as one of the city’s oldest and most violent. Diaz’s death was the first of two back-to-back police shootings last month that helped set off nights of protest.
The neighborhood, Anna Drive, was once a temporary first stop for the families who moved to Anaheim as part of the boom that followed the opening of Disneyland in 1955. Today, the neighborhood is mostly Latino and overwhelmingly poor, with families crowded into the same buildings that served as short-term rental housing in 1960.[More]
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