We talked about it when it happened in this very thread, starting at
post #1450.
NPR said:
Keenan Anderson, a 31-year-old high school teacher and father, was trying to get help after a traffic collision when he was chased, held down by multiple officers and tased for over 90 seconds as he begged for help.
Complete mischaracterization. He caused the DUI accident, tried to steal a car and resisted arrest. And what does his reproductive status have to do with anything?
"If you Taser someone with 50,000 watts of electrical energy six times ... is there really any wonder that moments later his heart will begin to flutter?" attorney Carl Douglas said at a news conference, the Associated Press
reported.
50,000 Watts? No. It's 50,000 Volts. 50 kW would have fried him to a crisp. Instead, the tasering only motivated him to stop resisting (although he did rant about Cee Lo afterwards). He only died 4.5 h later.
Others involved in the collision said Anderson had caused it, Moore said during a news conference Wednesday. Moore also said that Anderson had committed a felony hit-and-run and that another person involved in the collision said Anderson tried to steal a vehicle.
This is more honest reporting. Unfortunately, it is buried deep in the article.
At Wednesday's news conference, Moore said only a "single taser activation" had occurred, elaborating later that he believed several attempts were ineffective and the officer used "a series of dry stuns" following the first full activation.
Moore also said the department has no preset limit on the number of times a taser should be used in a situation.
That would indicate that he was actively tased for less total time than claimed.
Justice advocates criticized the LAPD for releasing a preliminary toxicology report, which showed Anderson's blood samples tested positive for cocaine and cannabis. Melina Abdullah, a friend of Patrisse Cullors and co-founder of Black Lives Matter Los Angeles, described the focus on narcotics as an "assassination on Keenan's character after they've already stolen his body."
Why should not true information about a DUI suspects who caused an accident be released? How is the truth "assassination of Keenan's character"? At most it's "character suicide" - Keenan's own actions and choices besmirched his character.
Note also that this Melina Abdullah is a police abolitionist and an all-around extremist.
"Keenan was the one who flagged police down in the first place," she told NPR. "And then he was treated as the criminal, as most Black men are."
Well, he did break the law.
"I think what's most important for people to organize around right now is 'no cops at traffic stops,'" she said. "My cousin would be around right now if he hadn't had a police encounter. Professionals who know how to deal with a crisis should've been at that scene."
Her cousin would have been around right now if he wasn't high as a kite and if he hadn't caused that accident. "No cops at traffic stops" is idiotic. What does she want? No arrests for DUIs? That would make driving much more dangerous for all of us.
Karen Bass via NPR said:
"No matter what these investigations determine, however, the need for urgent change is clear. We must reduce the use of force overall, and I have absolutely no tolerance for excessive force."
This is a stupid statement. What the investigations determine is very important. If no excessive force was used, then police did nothing wrong.
There was also a
video.
Again, the guy was high on coke, caused a car accident, acted erratic, tried stealing a car at the scene. Was tased, yes, but police did nothing wrong tasing him. He died long after getting tased, most likely due to effects of cocaine intoxication.
His survivors certainly do not deserve any damages, much less the ridiculous $50M demanded by the greedy relatives and their hearse-chasing lawyers.
lpetrich said:
One won't get much support from the community if one acts like that.
What about acting like Keenan Anderson did? Unfortunately for LA taxpayers, that city's voters made a poor choice electing Karen "Castro's Venceremos Brigade" Bass as mayor, and she will most likely pay the greedy family even though they do not deserve a cent.