LOS ANGELES — In a report released on Tuesday, the Los Angeles police chief said that a Black teacher who died after he was shocked multiple times with a Taser during a struggle with Los Angeles Police Department officers in January did not pose a deadly threat, and two officers involved in the incident who subdued the man violated departmental policy on the use of lethal force.
According to The Associated Press, the report on the controversial arrest of Keenan Darnell Anderson was presented to the city’s civilian Board of Police Commissioners. In the report, LAPD Police Chief Michel Moore said the arrest was mishandled because the officers applied force to his windpipe, and a Taser was used six times.
During a closed-door session, the police commissioners adopted the chief’s findings in the report of “administrative disapproval.”
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