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The excessive force federal lawsuit by the mother of Manuel Diaz, who was killed by Anaheim police in 2012, will get a retrial after the U.S. Supreme Court Monday upheld a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling granting the retrial, according to ABC 7 News.
The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals threw out a federal jury verdict that cleared an Anaheim police officer of any wrongdoing in fatal shooting of 25-year-old Manuel Diaz in July 2012.
The report was commissioned in the aftermath of fatal police shootings in the summer of 2012 that triggered a downtown riot.
Nearly 20 people turned out for the meeting and angrily protested the killing and a councilwoman’s comments in its aftermath.
The ruling comes in a lawsuit over the 2012 killing of Manuel Diaz by an Anaheim police officer. Diaz’s death and others led to riots downtown.
One year after protests of back-to-back police shootings led to a downtown riot, activists staged peaceful demonstrations.
Calls for a civilian check on police renewed after DA declined to file charges in fatal shooting of documented gang member who was unarmed.
Protesters — most from outside the city — were stopped as they moved toward the resort.
Already tense relations between Anaheim’s Latino community and the city’s police department are in danger of boiling over after two police shootings and a crowd control effort gone awry.
