Lawyers for the 5-year-old son of a man who died after repeatedly being shocked by Los Angeles police with a stun gun following a traffic collision filed a $50 million claim Friday for damages against the city.
's son and estate can sue LA police for wrongful death and civil rights violations for restraining him and shocking him six times with a Taser in less than a minute on Jan. 3.
Pictures of 31-year-old teacher, Keenan Anderson, who was tasered multiple times during a struggle with LAPD officers in Venice and died at a hospital, are displayed at news conference to announce filing a $50 million in damages claim against the city of Los Angeles over his death in Los Angeles Friday, Jan. 20, 2023.Anderson, 31, a high school English teacher in Washington, D.C.
"We can only wonder what Keenan Anderson meant," attorney Ben Crump said."But if he meant that he would end up dead at the end of the encounter at the hands of the Los Angeles Police Department then Keenan Anderson was correct. They George Floyd him."
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