KENAN Anderson, cousin of Black Lives Matter [BLM] co-founder has died in the hospital, hours after police in Los Angeles repeatedly restrained and Tasered him with a stun gun, police body-camera footage showed and his relatives said, sparking outrage.
Anderson went into cardiac arrest four hours later and died at a hospital in Santa Monica.
On Wednesday, Los Angeles Police Department [LAPD] released a body-cam footage of the January 3 incident, showing Anderson pleading for help while police officers are seen restraining him and Tasering him multiple times.
“They’re trying to George Floyd me,” the video shows Anderson as saying while he is restrained on the ground by a number of officers, referring to the killing of the Black man in May 2020 by a police officer in Minneapolis, Minnesota, US that sparked global protests.
“They’re trying to kill me,” says Anderson as he is repeatedly tasered while he is told to “stop resisting”.
At one point in the recording, it appears to show a police officer pressing against his neck.
Shortly after Anderson was Tasered, an ambulance arrived on the scene and took him to a nearby hospital.
Anderson lived in Washington, DC and was visiting Los Angeles. The cause of his death has not been officially determined yet.
