Santa Ana residents may not get a detailed public hearing on what happened at last summer’s protests against ICE’s sweeping deportations almost a year after police officers fired hundreds of rounds of rubber bullets and threw tear gas at demonstrations in Orange County’s only sanctuary city.
According to a staff report, Santa Ana police officers fired over 300 less lethal rounds and tear gas at protestors over the span of four days last year, costing nearly $400,000 – a response that many residents, activists and a couple of city council members say was excessive.
City Councilman Ben Vazquez, who called for a hearing on the response and who was at some of the protests, said police officers escalated the situation on purpose…