According to body-cam video, Anderson is threatened with a Taser if he doesn’t turn over onto his stomach. Another officer can be seen placing his elbow across Anderson’s throat at the same time.
Then, as the man cries out once more that the police are “trying to kill me,” an officer Tases Anderson for approximately 30 seconds.
The video shows Anderson was still restrained and laying in the middle of the road as authorities attempted to provide him with medical care. The body-camera film ends while Anderson is being transferred into an ambulance.
A police news release says Anderson was under arrest and then taken by ambulance to a hospital in Santa Monica where he suffered cardiac arrest and was pronounced dead.
The Washington Post reports that Cullors has community support in demanding the resignation of Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore, and for the officers to be held accountable. She also questions why it was necessary for armed officers to arrive at the scene of a car collision. Cullors told the Post, “He yelled out, ‘They’re trying to George Floyd me!’ and they did just that,” she said. “And that’s really hard to digest.”
The Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office is still investigating Anderson’s death and has not yet ruled on its cause and manner. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has called for all of the officers involved in the three separate incidents to be “placed on immediate leave.”
Cullors said Anderson was a 10th grade English teacher at the Digital Pioneers Academy public charter school in Washington.
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