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Protesters swarm Anaheim city hall over police violence

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    City officials call for investigation into shootings

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Chaos in the streets a few miles from Disneyland and now the mayor of Anaheim California says federal officials.

Will investigate the two deadly police shootings that triggered these violent protests.

These are some of the pictures from last night three days after that first shooting investigators say on Saturday afternoon -- officers shot and killed this on an armed man.

We're told he was in a group of people acting suspiciously.

Police say they later identified him as a gang member then the next day investigators say a second man with known gang affiliations shot at an officer.

That policeman returned fire and killed the young man.

-- yesterday's Anaheim City Council discussed the shootings inside City Hall.

This was going on outside.

-- the bottle protesters hurling those in rocks in traffic cones.

Police firing back -- bean bag rounds and pepper balls cops arrested more than twenty people.

Trace Gallagher live in -- West Coast use of this afternoon what are the cops say they expect tonight more this.

We just talked to -- -- But they don't know what to expect but there's certainly bracing for another long night of -- last in last night's Tug of war between the cops the protesters lasted almost eleven hours.

And at one time the police say the crowd was estimated at a thousand people or more.

There were some protesters using bull horns to try and keep the peace but as you can tell from the video.

A lot of people simply did not listen at least a dozen fires were set twenty businesses damaged.

Along with city hall and the police department but today the police chief issued this message to protesters listen.

We will continue to facilitate any and all peaceful lawful demonstrations.

We recognize that is the right of the people.

And it's our job to see that they can exercise that right.

However we will not allow riotous.

Dangerous violations of the law by anyone's.

We will protect innocent people from being injured and -- and property from being damaged.

And police say -- they identify more violent offenders and all those videotapes they will make more arrests -- we we're hearing from relatives of this unarmed guy who police shot on Saturday right.

Right we are and they want money and they want justice they've already filed a fifty million dollar lawsuit.

Against the city of Anaheim but today the mother said more importantly she wants those police officers arrested.

Anaheim police won't talk about the shooting but the police union says this man.

Manuel Diaz was a known gang member with a criminal record and the reason the police officer shot him is because he thought he was reaching.

For a weapon in his waist -- -- family denies that.

They say they're not involved in any protests and they do not condone the violence here's the mom.

We want peaceful just -- we want to honor -- by doing being looked at the ball.

We want the -- that question to be arrested for the execution of my son -- -- The family is also hoping the FBI gets involved in the investigation but that is highly unlikely.

-- Trace Gallagher reporting from Los Angeles well.

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