Keenan Anderson, cousin of Black Lives Matter founder Patrisse Cullors, died of cardiac arrest after being restrained and shot with a TASER gun by Los Angeles Police during a traffic accident on January 3.
Anderson, 31, died at a nearby hospital after several officers shot him with a Taser as part of an arrest following a traffic accident. The man, according to the recordings, edited by the police, as claimed by the U.S. media, appears agitated, walking along a road and calling for help.
An officer demands him, after getting off the motorcycle, to stand in front of the wall while Anderson tells him, in an agitated voice, that someone has stolen his car, that he has lost the key and that they are trying to kill him. After that, the man tries to flee and is chased by the policeman, who orders him to lie down on the ground.
According to CNN, Anderson panics and tries to get up, saying that they are trying to «do a George Floyd on him» -in reference to his murder-, after which the officers fire the electroshock gun, although in the edited images that phrase cannot be heard, but simply «please don’t».
In a statement, the Los Angeles Police Department claimed Anderson tested positive for cocaine and marijuana in a preliminary toxicology screen, while Police Chief Michel Moore defended Wednesday that the man had committed felony hit-and-run, attempting to «get into another person’s car without their permission.»
For his part, five days ago, Cullors himself announced on Instagram the death of his cousin. «This is my cousin, Keenan Anderson. He was killed by the LAPD in Venice on January 3, 2023,» he says in a publication in which his photograph appears.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
