The video below shows the well tended lawns you spoke of.
“He’s Still Alive!” Video Emerges of Immediate Aftermath of Anaheim Police Killing of Manuel Diaz
http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2012/07/manuel_diaz_anaheim_police.php
The source (who requested anonymity) was on the scene, and audio from the video confirms what eyewitness accounts have confirmed but which police refuse to do: that Diaz was shot in the head.
The most harrowing part of the video, however, is the fact that Diaz was alive—and police stood there for over three minutes and did nothing. Instead, they seem more concerned with pushing witnesses away from the scene, the better to diminish the video quality of the footage, when they weren’t actively trying to block the source from recording.
Diaz is visibly twitching at the very beginning of the video. It’s not until about 3:13 into the video that police finally turn over Diaz, whose head is bloodied beyond belief.
Anaheim PD July 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=RIwjUQYnWMM
Guy is behind a big fence. "They" said he ran down an alley.
Sure, right ~ another story says he was shot at the front entrance to the apartment building.
But that's not the front entrance.
Raising questions of (1) Where was he shot, (2) Did the cops drag/carry his body around the fence before the guy with the video cam came along, (3) Why were they putting up police line tape so far from the site of the killing if, in fact, that's where it took place, (4) Which gets us back to the question of where was he shot ~ where is the area they need to control, what did they do with the people living right there who may have come out to see what happened.
The cop story really doesn't hang together yet so we'll need to keep our eyes on this one.
Where is the K-9 unit right then, or did they come later, and for what? Who opened the dog's cage? I"m pretty sure it wasn't the dog eh.