Keenan Anderson. Image courtesy: Twitter
Los Angeles: Keenan Anderson, a cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, died of a cardiac arrest hours after he was repeatedly Tasered and restrained in the street by police.
The 31-year-old, who was a teacher by profession, died at a hospital in Santa Monica, BBC reported.
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) have released a body camera footage of the encounter which took place on January 3 which shows Anderson begging for help as officers hold him down.
“They’re trying to George Floyd me!” he said at one point in the video in a reference to the May 2020 murder of a man in Minneapolis, Minnesota, by a policeman.
The cause of death has not been officially determined, BBC stated.
Earlier, two people, named Takar Smith and Oscar Sanchez, were shot dead by officers at the start of January.
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