The family of Keenan Anderson, who died after being tased by LAPD officers, has filed a wrongful death lawsuit | CNN

The family of a 31-year-old father who died after being tased by Los Angeles police officers is suing the city and members of the department over his death

The wrongful death lawsuit claims officers reacted inappropriately when they repeatedly tased Keenan Anderson, cousin of Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, in early January, according to civil right attorney Ben Crump. Anderson, an English teacher who was visiting Los Angeles from Washington DC, lost consciousness shortly after he was tased at the site of a traffic collision in Los Angeles’ Venice neighborhood.

One officer can be heard warning Anderson to stop resisting and turn over, and threatening to tase him. Los Angeles police said at the time that they responded to a traffic collision and saw Anderson “running in the middle of the street and exhibiting erratic behavior.” On one officer’s body-worn camera, released and edited by police, a woman at the traffic collision site tells police, “I think that guy up there needs help though, because the guy’s trying to run away.

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