BLM Co Founder Patrisse Cullors’ Cousin Keenan Anderson Dies After Being Tased by LAPD

Shocking footage released this week shows Keenan Anderson, a high school teacher whose cousin is Patrisse Cullors, the co-founder of Black Lives Matter, begging for his life as police repeatedly chase him. hours before he died.

Body-camera footage, released Wednesday, shows Anderson, 31, repeatedly shouting “they’re trying to attack me George Floyd” when police overpowered him in the middle of the street earlier this month.

An officer held an elbow to Anderson’s neck as he was pinned to the ground. At the same time, another officer appeared to attack Anderson for nearly 30 seconds in a row.

Police said the tragic incident happened after a car crash in Venice on January 3.

Footage shows police handcuffing Anderson. A press release from the LAPD said he was then taken into custody and transported by ambulance to a Santa Monica hospital, where he was pronounced dead of cardiac arrest about four hours after using the weapon. force.

Anderson is a 10th-grade English teacher at a predominantly Black charter school in Washington, and is in Los Angeles visiting family and friends, Washington Post reported, citing Cullors.

Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore said Wednesday that it was “not clear” what role Anderson’s struggles with police played in his death. He said Anderson was in an “altered mental state” and claimed that preliminary blood tests showed he had marijuana and cocaine in his system.

Melina Abdullah, co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, said Wednesday that she believes Anderson’s death was the result of police violence.

“Keenan’s murder was absolutely horrific,” said Abdullah, when guardian report. “The LAPD doesn’t call it ‘murder’, it calls it ‘death in custody. But Keenan was Tased to death. We know the LAPD caused Keenan’s death.”