The Rodney King riots are being revisited in Anaheim.

Well, not exactly, as what is going on down there is not on the same level. But, what is happening down there is still significant.

 Police shot and killed two men, outraging many. The police union has said both were known gang members. Now, obviously, whether you are a gang member or drug pusher or not, you still should not be shot and killed. The police union has said in one of the two instances, the man was thought to have been pulling a gun from his waistband. No gun was found, but if a man is suspected of being a gang member, it is understandable to see a move to the waistband as being a move for a weapon.

Police arrested 24 protesters Tuesday night, with many not doing much to warrant getting arrested. Police fired bean bags and pepper balls indiscriminately into the crowd.

 

So, there are two questions: Were the shootings justified, and were the arrests and bean bag and pepper ball shootings justified? America being a land of free speech, should police have allowed them freedom to protest as long as they were peaceful?

Knowing no more specifics, I wonder but what they shouldn't have allowed the protests, without the arrests. Respond against the breaking of windows and the burning of trash cans, if you can catch them, but don't shoot pepper balls into an innocent crowd of peaceful protesters.