Civil rights groups organize protest against CHP after unarmed Latino teen is shot by undercover CHP officers who fail to follow proper police procedure

Protestors take to the street and picket the CHP office in Santa Ana after the Villanueva shooting in Fullerton

Demonstrators gathered Sunday outside the California Highway Patrol office in Santa Ana, organized by local Latino civil rights groups, to protest last week's fatal shooting of an unarmed 19-year-old teen shot by undercover CHP officers.

The protest was organized by local Latino civil rights activist
Naui Huitzilopotchtli who is a part of the Mexica Movement

The dead Latino teen in question, Pedro Villanueva of Chatsworth, had merely attended an illegal street car "sideshow" organized near a Santa Fe Springs swap meet and was chased and cornered by undercover CHP officers, who never identified themselves as police officers, into a dead-end street on a residential Fullerton cul-de-sac.

When officers, who still failed to identify themselves as police officers, drew their weapons on Villanueva, he thought he was being assaulted by robbers and tried to get to safety through the only avenue of escape he had at his disposal through the narrow dead-end street he had mistakenly entered.

He tried to make a desperate attempt to make a U-turn to try escape from his unidentified assailants by driving out of the narrow dead-end street, where the suspicious unmarked car and officers in plain clothes were.