A 31-year-old black man, cousin of one of the founders of the anti-racist movement Black Lives Matter (Black Lives Matter), died hours after receiving shocks in a police action in the city of Los Angeles, in the United States.
The case took place on the 3rd and became public this week, when images recorded by body cameras of the agents involved in the action were released.
Keenan Anderson appears running from police after being involved in a car accident in the Venice neighborhood of Los Angeles. Agitated, he does not obey the order to lean against a wall. Afterwards, the agents manage to immobilize him and, with the man lying on the ground, they shoot shocks with a taser-type weapon.
Anderson screams for help. He says the police were trying to kill him and do the same thing to him as they did to George Floyd, a black man killed in 2020 by asphyxiation in Minneapolis, after a police officer knelt on his neck.
“Officers wrestled Anderson for several minutes, using a taser, body weight and arm locks to overcome resistance,” Los Angeles Police said in a statement.
Anderson was arrested and, hours later, suffered cardiac arrest. He was taken to a hospital, but he couldn’t resist. The case has sparked outrage. “He was killed by the police,” said Patrisse Cullors, Anderson’s cousin and one of the founders of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Los Angeles prefect Karen Bass called for the officers to be immediately suspended pending the outcome of the investigation.
On social networks, users compare the case to that of Floyd, who generated strong commotion in the US and gave impetus to a global wave of combating racism. The former security guard had his neck pressed to the ground for more than eight minutes and said “I can’t breathe” more than 20 times before he was killed.
Last year, three former police officers who were present at the time of the murder were found guilty of federal crimes for depriving the former security guard of his Constitutional rights by failing to provide him with medical care. Earlier, former police officer Derek Chauvin, who suffocated Floyd with his knee, received a sentence of 22 and a half years in prison.
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