Keenan Anderson, one of three people killed in police custody so far in 2023, was a distant cousin of Patrisse Cullors, a co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network.
Patrisse Cullors is used to being the one consoling families of people who died at the hands of police, not the other way around.
Anderson, a father of one who taught high school English, had been in town visiting from his home in Virginia. His death was the latest of three in LAPD custody so far this year.from all three incidents: the police shootings of Takar Smith and Oscar Sanchez, and Anderson’s death, which came hours after he was tased during an arrest in Venice. Anderson’s relation to Cullers drew attention to the case from far-flung publications such as the New York Times and the Guardian in London.
Moore briefly addressed the incidents at a meeting of the Police Commission on Tuesday. He said he’d decided to release the videos for the sake of “transparency.” The commission met in closed session Tuesday to discuss Moore’s future, but a previously announced vote on the matter has been delayed.Assemblymember Kevin McCarty plans to introduce a bill this year that would significantly expand a state law requiring the state inspector general’s office to independently probe all fatal police shootings of unarmed civilians to determine whether criminal charges should be filed against the officers involved.
But Cullors said the family plans to commission an independent autopsy — paid for by a program founded by former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick — after learning that the county medical examiner’s office could take several months to release its findings. Even if the results come out sooner, Cullors said she worries they could be colored by bias and be used to create a pro-police narrative that would blame Anderson for his own death.
Even as the family knew his faults, they chose to remember positive memories about Anderson. Since his mom’s death, his uncle said, Anderson always seemed to have something to prove.
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