Cities from around the county are sending local police officers to help counter the violent protests in Anaheim following three officer-involved shootings there.
However, authorities don’t expect deputies’ response times for South County crimes to be affected by the deployments to Anaheim.
Beginning last weekend, the Anaheim Police Department activated a mutual-aid agreement to bring in outside officers to bolster the force, including about 40 Orange County Sheriff's deputies, according to OCSD spokesman Jim Amormino. Protests and a candlelight vigil tonight by Occupy Orange County activists continue to require extra manpower.
About 20 or so deputies have been pulled from the department's South Operations Division in Aliso Viejo, he said. The rest are deputies who work in the jail system, he said.
Deputies from the Aliso Viejo station serve in the cities of Aliso Viejo, Dana Point, Laguna Hills, Laguna Niguel, Laguna Woods, Lake Forest, Mission Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano and the unincorporated areas of Trabuco Canyon, Coto De Caza, Ladera Ranch, Wagon Wheel and Las Flores.
Two fatal shootings in Anaheim—one on Saturday and the other Sunday—sparked four nights of protests in the city.
During demonstrations Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, police fired non-lethal rounds at demonstrators who refused orders to disperse. Some protesters set fires, smashed windows and hurled rocks and other projectiles at officers.
Twenty-four people were arrested and at least seven people, including police officer, were injured.
A third shooting Friday brought the total to three officer-involved shootings in less than a week.
Occupy Orange County activists will hold a "silent candlelight vigil" at 5:30 p.m. Friday in Stoddard Park in Anaheim in response to the recent shootings.
Although the Occupy activists initially planned to hold a protest march, the group announced plans to turn the gathering into a quieter affair just hours before the event.
The group requests "silence, humility and healing thoughts to honor all three dead young men and bring comfort rather than more chaos to these mourning families," according to a statement released by Occupy Orange County.
—City News Service contributed to this report.
When your mom calls you in from the playground... you know, when the street lights go on....Do us all a favor, jump on your computer (the machine that YOU use for porn), yeah that thing...and look at some video online of the events leading up to this riot. The APD has killed 8+ Hispanics this year. That is more than these "out-of-control" gangs do to each other. Of these 8 murders, some victims did not have any weapons or any gang affiliation. When people in the varrio have problems they are handled internally. They do not call the police. Therefore you will never find video of police being shot/murdered in Anaheim because it doesn't happen. You won't find a police officer helping the varrio in any video either. The police decide that they will only make social calls to the varrio when they feel like beating somebody's ass. Besides all that...... a crazy white guy in Aurora,Co goes ballistic in a theater and kills a dozen people and injures nearly a hundred. He wasn't shot!!! The police managed to detain him without firing a single round yet he had a shotgun an AR-15 and several handguns....WTF is that? Neal go inside and come out to the Interwebs playground wheb you're a big boy and can think for yourself. That is all buudy. It's your nap time!!! P.S. it is spelled v-i-o-l-e-n-c-e. Its okay though, we'll get there when you get to third grade....we cover all of those hard to spell words lil' fella'!