The son of Keenan Anderson, a man who died at the hospital after trying to evade police and being shot with a Taser, filed a claim for damages Friday.
Syncere Kai Anderson is 5 years old and was present at a news conference with his mother, Gabrielle Hansell when their lawyers announced the claim seeking $50 million in damages from the city of Los Angeles. Keenan's cousin Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter, was also present. It is procedure to file a claim against the city ahead of a lawsuit against the police department.Keenan Anderson, a Washington, D.C., high school teacher, was hospitalized after the Jan. 3 incident.
In the body cam footage released by the police, Anderson is heard asking for help and accusing the officers of trying to kill him, and, at one point invoking the name of the man who brought the BLM movement to the mainstream, trying to"George Floyd" him. Floyd was a black man who died while being arrested by police in Minnesota, for which officer Derek Chauvin was convicted for murder.
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