Off-Duty LAPD Cop Fires Gun During After-School Melee with Anaheim Teens

A group of teens were walking home from school yesterday afternoon in the West Palais neighborhood of Anaheim when a resident confronted them. The off-duty Los Angeles policeman apparently complained that they were walking on his property. Words were exchanged, the man grabbed a 13-year-old named Christian (per the Facebook post of a woman claiming to be his mom), and kids whipped out their smartphones to film what happened next, a video that's since gone viral.

Read more on my latest OC Weekly Navel Gazing Blog post:

http://www.ocweekly.com/news/off-duty-lapd-cop-fires-gun-during-after-school-melee