UPDATE #3, FEB. 23, 9:01 A.M.: Hundreds of people protested in the neighborhood last night—read our dispatch here. 
 
 
 
 UPDATE #2. 5:45 P.M. The father of the boy, now identified as Christian Dorscht, talked to the Weekly. Read our interview with him here. 
 
 
 
 UPDATE, FEB. 22, 3:50 P.M.: A protest is being called by local police brutality activists tonight at 7 p.m. on the corner of Euclid Street and W. Palais Rd. over yesterday's incident where an unnamed off-duty LAPD officer pulled a gun and fired near a group of kids walking home from school. In the meantime, a new video has surfaced that begins earlier and shows the cop arguing with the 13-year-old while grabbing a hold of him and his backpack. The teen also accuses the elderly bearded white man seen in the video of trying to hit him with his cane. 
 
 ORIGINAL STORY, FEB. 22, 3:19 P.M.: 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. 
 
 According to Anaheim police, Christian threatened to shoot the man, which led to the cop trying to cuff him. "You've been resisting this whole time," the man told Christian, who can be seen in the video clutching the youth and refusing to let go. "Punch a kid in the nuts, that's a little pussy move," Christian responded. "Let me go, for the last time!" 
 
 Christian alleged in the video that the off-duty cop called a girl a "cunt" when telling her to get off his property, and then tackled him first when he stood up for her. 
 
 The verbal exchanges led to the off-duty cop dragging the kid towards some bushes. It's unclear from the tape if he ever identified himself as a police officer. "I'd understand if you were a cop, but you're not a cop," Christian told the off-duty officer at one point during the video. One teen came in to shove the man over the bushes after the impasse. Another took a swing but missed. That's when the off-duty cop reached into his waistband and pulled out a gun. The surrounding youth started backing off—and then a shot rang out. 
 
 "Chingue su madre!" the kid recording the incident said before running towards the other side of the street. An unidentified elderly man with a white, cottony beard apparently called police, saying the gunfire was accidental, drawing jeers from the kids. 
 
 Anaheim police finally arrived to detain Christian and his friends. He was booked at Orange County Juvenile Hall for criminal threats and battery. Police arrested a 15-year-old for assault and battery before releasing him to his parents. The Orange County District Attorney's (OCDA) office will review the case. 
 
 Details remained slim in the incident until viral videos surfaced online. "We cannot authenticate the validity of these videos as they were not recorded or posted by APD," wrote Anaheim police spokesman Daron Wyatt in a press release. "However, they do appear to depict portions of the incident in question." 
 
 As for the off-duty cop? Anaheim's finest declined to arrest him. The LAPD is conducting an internal affairs investigation into his conduct. APD's Homicide Unit is looking into the circumstances surrounding the single gunshot. 
 
 Stay tuned for more on the developing desmadre. ||||| Despite looming rain clouds, 30 protesters marched in Anaheim for Christian Dorscht, the 13-year-old confronted by Los Angeles Police Department officer Kevin Ferguson in now-infamous viral videos. They gathered outside Loara High School near the West Palais neighborhood where the incident happened in which Ferguson dragged Christian until another teen shoved him over a hedge. The off-duty cop then pulled a concealed gun, firing a single shot into the ground near the group of kids, one of whom allegedly stepped on his lawn. 
 
 "All we want is justice for Christian and for all of our children," said Jennifer Dorscht, Christopher's grandmother, who led the march. "[The officer] could have handled the matter completely different!" 
 
 Demonstrators marched down Euclid Avenue where they stopped at a major intersection rallying supportive honks along the way. The route continued towards Ball Junior High before walking through an apartment alleyway to get to Palm Lane Elementary. The stops were intentional, with Jennifer wanting to show symbolic support for all the children in the area. ||||| Story highlights An orange tip indicating the gun was not a real firearm had been removed, police said 
 
 Deputy chief says police have surveillance video of the shooting 
 
 Officer who fired fatal shots "had no clue" Tamir Rice was 12, union official says 
 
 "You didn't give him a chance," an angry resident says of the shooting 
 
 A law enforcement officer's quick decision is once again being put under a microscope. 
 
 On Monday, Cleveland police said officers fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice as the youth reached for an air pistol in his waist. Chief Calvin Williams said the air pistol was "indistinguishable from a real firearm." An orange tip indicating the gun was not a real firearm had been removed, police said. 
 
 "Our officers at times are required to make critical decisions in a split second," Williams said at a news conference "Unfortunately, this was one of those times." 
 
 The incident comes as the nation nervously awaits a grand jury decision on whether to charge the police officer who killed African-American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, in August. 
 
 But Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson said events in Ferguson don't concern him. 
 
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 "Ferguson being out there or not being out there doesn't matter," the mayor said at the news conference. "This is about the fact that a young boy was shot and killed in Cleveland." 
 
 The attorney for the family of the Cleveland youngster, who also was black, downplayed any possible racial connotations to the shooting. Police have not disclosed the race of the officer who shot Tamir. 
 
 "This is not a black and white issue. This is a right and wrong issue," attorney Tim Kucharski said. 
 
 Deputy Chief Ed Tomba said video showing the Saturday shooting exists, but he didn't say where the video comes from. He said representatives for Rice's family have viewed the video and the family will decide later whether to look at it. 
 
 Tomba said the video is not available for journalists now because it's part of an active investigation, which the department plans to complete in 90 days and send to the district attorney. 
 
 'There's a guy in there with a pistol' 
 
 The incident began Saturday when police were summoned to a city recreation center by a 911 caller who said someone -- possibly a juvenile -- was pointing "a pistol" at people. 
 
 "There's a guy in there with a pistol, you know, it's probably fake, but he's like pointing it at everybody," the caller said. 
 
 "He's sitting on a swing right now, but he's pulling it in and out of his pants and pointing it at people," the caller said. "He's probably a juvenile, you know?" 
 
 Police said it's not clear if the responding officers received the information about the age of the suspect or the gun being "probably fake." 
 
 When the two officers arrived, the boy did not point the air gun at them or otherwise threaten them, Tomba told reporters Sunday. 
 
 But he did reach for the air gun, Tomba said. 
 
 "The officers ordered him to stop and to show his hands, and he went into his waistband and pulled out the weapon," he said. 
 
 Tamir died early Sunday at MetroHealth Medical Center after surgery, according to the hospital and the family's attorney. 
 
 Tomba showed reporters the air gun the boy was said to be reaching for -- a large, black BB- or pellet-type replica gun resembling a semiautomatic pistol. An orange tip indicating the gun was not a real firearm had been removed, police said. 
 
 On Monday, Williams said that the "facsimile weapon in this incident was indistinguishable from a real firearm." 
 
 Both officers have been placed on leave, police said. 
 
 The head of the police union said the officers followed protocols. 
 
 "As they approached the male, they are screaming at him, 'Put your hands up, put your hands up' -- they don't want his hands to go anywhere down by the waistband," Cleveland Police Patrolman's Association President Jeff Follmer told CNN affiliate WJW. 
 
 "I can tell you the officer that fired had no clue that he was 12, he just thought it was an older male. There was more concentration on his hands because we are taught in the academy that hands will kill you," Follmer told the station. 
 
 'It was a child' 
 
 Residents reacted angrily. 
 
 "It wasn't a dog. It was a child. You didn't give him a chance. You just killed him," one man told CNN affiliate WEWS. 
 
 Someone claiming to represent the online activist group Anonymous claimed in a YouTube video to have taken down the city's website, blaming the shooting on what the speaker said was "an overzealous rookie officer" who resorted too quickly to lethal force. 
 
 "Officers are equipped with many nonlethal options such as Taser guns," the speaker said. "Why did he not use a Taser on this child? Shooting him in cold blood was not necessary with these nonlethal options available." 
 
 However, Follmer said officers had no way to know the air gun wasn't a real firearm. 
 
 "You feel bad, after the fact, that it was a 12-year-old," he said. "Nobody wants to shoot a 12-year-old, especially when they are holding a fake gun. But that's not the perception the officers had at that time." 
 
 Chief Williams said parents need to teach children that "guns are not toys," whether they're real or fake. 
 
 Police shootings of African-Americans, particularly young men, have been under rising scrutiny in recent months after Brown's shooting following a brief confrontation in Ferguson. 
 
 A grand jury there is expected to soon make a decision whether Officer Darren Wilson should face criminal charges in that incident, which resulted in widespread protests over police violence against African-Americans.
– A 13-year-old is suing a Los Angeles police officer who fired a gun during an off-duty altercation with teens in Anaheim last month. In his lawsuit, Christian Dorscht says officer Kevin Ferguson "became irate" when teens walked across his property on their way home from school on Feb. 21, reports the Los Angeles Times. Christian says Ferguson called a female student a "c---," per OC Weekly, prompting Christian to ask him to speak "in a nicer manner." Ferguson then grabbed Christian, and as the confrontation escalated, Christian says he threatened to "sue" Ferguson, but the officer says he heard the teen threaten to "shoot" him. The suit says Ferguson never identified himself as an officer. A video shows Ferguson holding Christian by the collar before a teen knocks into Ferguson, sending him into a hedge. Ferguson then draws a gun and fires a single shot, reportedly into the ground. Nobody was injured. Christian—who accuses Ferguson of assault, false imprisonment, and causing emotional distress—was one of two teens later arrested on suspicion of battery, but protesters have demanded "justice" since Ferguson remains on duty while police investigate, per the OC Register. The Los Angeles Police Protective League is not sympathetic. "We hope that this lawsuit determines why multiple young adults chose to physically assault a police officer and what the parents of these young adults could have done to teach their children right from wrong," it says. (A much happier story about an off-duty cop.)