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About 30 showed up to protest the Santa Ana Police Department. They question whether the 5 deadly police shootings in the city this year were justified. “We want to let Santa Ana Police know that they are out of control and that we want them to stop killing the citizens of Santa Ana. This is the 5^th person they’ve killed in their city this year,” said Terri Teramura, a local activist, according to Fox News.

But a security guard, who wished to remain unidentified, told CBS News, that on July 12—two weeks before Hans Kevin Arellano was shot once in the chest in a shopping center parking lot during a confrontation with a female veteran officer—he got into a physical altercation with the suspect outside of Northgate Market on Harbor Boulevard. Continue reading→

Updated: Click here to watch a video of the shooting, shot by a witness on his cell phone.

Police say that Hans Arellano, the 22-year-old homeless man who was killed in an officer-involved shooting in Santa Ana on Tuesday was not armed. Now, there are three separate investigations underway into the shooting, according to KABC News.

Friends of Arellano say that he had been sleeping behind one of the businesses near the place where he was fatally shot.

Arellano got into a confrontation with an officer around 3 p.m., then ran, he said. Another officer came to assist, and one officer, woman who is a 13-year veteran with the department, shot Arellano once in the front torso, Rojas said, according to the O.C. Register. Continue reading→

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Protesters decry latest SAPD shooting while guard says victim attacked him

The homeless man shot yesterday by SAPD cops was unarmed