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Beefed-up citizen oversight of the Anaheim Police Department will be considered by the City Council Tuesday. A report by the ACLU found Anaheim to be among the nation’s worst cities for deaths at the hands of police.
A federal jury Friday awarded $200,000 in damages to the family of Manuel Angel Diaz, a 25-year-old Anaheim man who was shot and killed in 2012 while running away from two Anaheim police officers.
The report was commissioned in the aftermath of fatal police shootings in the summer of 2012 that triggered a downtown riot.
The City Council will spend $1.1 million on body cameras for police officers, a step city officials hope will continue building a fragile trust with residents.
The city manager notes that neither police groups nor mothers of police shooting victims are happy with the civilian oversight proposal.
One year after protests of back-to-back police shootings led to a downtown riot, activists staged peaceful demonstrations.