Keenan Anderson - black teacher killed by LAPD
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Anonymous
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The deceased did everything wrong that one could do in this situation plus he had coke & pot in his system and he committed a felony hit& run.
Doesn't appear that the police did anything wrong here. |
Anonymous
| If you watch the whole video he’s clearly having some kind of psychotic episode. Whether this is from mental illness, drugs or both I’m not sure. When the police officer approached him he tell the police officer that someone is trying to kill him and he’s unable settle down/follow directions. Prior to all of this and the reason for the police being there in the first place is he was involved in a hit and run car accident so that’s why the police initially approach him. During their initial interaction he’s frenzied over something he perceives real or not. So then he starts running into traffic which is dangerous to everyone, himself included. The police officer orders him to get on the ground and relax so he can handcuff him and get him out of the road/figure out what is really going on. He can’t because he’s having some kind of episode and is just agitated and seemingly delirious. The police officer then tases him and he still resists. Anderson needed to be calmed down and restrained so the situation (car accident and his own psychotic episode) can be dealt with but the only tools these police seem to have that are non lethal are tasers. I know in some places EMTs are called and give people having similar mental episodes drugs but that’s also controversial and in some places they have mental health counselors try to talk people down from their episode but I don’t know how well it works. Sometimes mental health patients just need to be physically restrained for everyone’s safety. I would not be surprised if the combination of the excitement of the situation, his physical struggle with the police, potential drugs use, and possible prior heath conditions and the taser all led to his death. The question is what should a police officer do when they are dealing with a person having a psychotic episode or are extremely high on drugs. |
Anonymous
Does he deserve to die for that, you psychopath? |
Anonymous
And that now calls for a death sentence? |
Anonymous
Wrong again. If only your powers of deduction matched your powers for sloppy analysis of evidence. I posted a link to the video 
It was very hard to watch but I did so. Tasering for 30 seconds straight by six armed officers ? The LAPD mental health team was not called and should have been. The poor man did not need to die like this. |
Anonymous
You may think you are helping the police HH defending unjustified use of lethal force but you are contributing to deep distrust of the police by POC. Police need more training to be able to judge when lethal force is justified and build community support and relations. |
Anonymous
A taser is not considered lethal force. Do you even know what happened? |
Anonymous
Lethal force is a gun a taser it not lethal force when he died 4+ hours later with cocaine and weed in his system. What personal responsibility do you think the deceased had in this? Any? He was high on drugs, committed felony DUI hit and run, disobeyed police, ran into traffic nearly causing more accidents. Did he do anything wrong here? Before saying the police are wrong, what is/was his part here? Do you see anything? |
Anonymous
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It's really unfortunate that a DC teacher is doing cocaine. The kids deserve better.
That said, he was killed by the police. 
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Anonymous
+ 1 |
Anonymous
The guy who was clearly distressed, unarmed and on the ground was tasered 4 times in 30 seconds. You do know that tasers are linked to hundreds of police induced deaths? Tasers are regarded as less lethal restraining device not non lethal device. They should have called the LAPD mental health unit to deal with him humanely Examining fatal and nonfatal incidents involving the TASER Identifying predictors of suspect death reported in the media Michael d. White Justin ready Arizona State University research summary According to TASER International, nearly 10,000 police departments in the United States have deployed the TASER as a less lethal force alternative in some capacity. Despite the TASER’s increasing popularity, serious questions have been raised about the device’s physi- ological side effects; in particular, Amnesty International has reported that more than 300 people have died after being subjected to the TASER. Although a growing body of research has examined the physiological effects of the TASER on animals and healthy human vol- unteers in laboratory settings, there has been virtually no empirical analysis of “real-world” fatal and nonfatal TASER cases simultaneously. This article examines all media reports of TASER incidents from 2002 to 2006 through a comprehensive review of LexisNexis and New York Times archives. We compare TASER incidents in which a fatality occurred to TASER incidents in which a fatality did not occur and then employ multivariate analyses to identify the incident and suspect characteristics that are predictive of articles describing TASER-proximate deaths. Policy implications Several suspect factors were significantly associated with the reporting of a fatal TASER incident, including drug use (but not alcohol), mental illness, and continued resistance. Multiple deployments of the TASER against a suspect was also associated with the likelihood of the article describing a fatality—especially if the suspect was emotionally disturbed— which raises the possibility that the risk of multiple shocks might not be uniform for all suspects. More research is needed to explore the relationship between mental illness, drug use (illicit or therapeutic), continued resistance, and increased risk of death. In the mean- time, police departments should develop specific policies and training governing the use |
Anonymous
Do you understand what lethal weapon means? It means sufficient in and of itself to cause death. A taser is not sufficient to cause death on its own without other compounding factors therefore it is not considered lethal. A healthy person who is not on drugs is highly unlikely to die from being tasered alone. |
Anonymous
Do you understand nuance? Degree? Tasers are regarded as less lethal not non lethal. Drug users and mentally ill more likely to die from taser usage - especially to this degree. He was clearly terrified and not resisting. You are doing a great disservice to police by defending this unjustified use of excessive force. This man has a family who love him. |
Anonymous
NP I say frequently that personal responsibility has gone the way of the dodo. He may not have DESERVED to die, but his death is not shocking considering his actions. If some idiot runs out in front of a speeding train because he thinks he can beat it, and he dies, did he deserve to die? Nope. But, his death is not at all shocking and there is plenty he could have done to prevent it. |
Anonymous
False equivalence Police are trained to respond to such threats or lack thereof. Speeding trains are not. The level of force was way disproportionate to the threat he posed six armed officers. |