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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

Keenan Anderson, cousin of a BLM founder, was a highly respected DC high school teacher. How did he end up ‘tasered to death’ by the LAPD?

Courtesy of Patrisse Cullors

Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors is among the many relatives, friends and colleagues of Keenan Anderson who are demanding answers after the respected Washington DC high school teacher was allegedly “tasered to death” by LAPD officers.

“All I know is that my cousin was asking for help, and he didn’t receive it,” Ms Cullors, 39, told The Independent in an interview on Friday. “And hours later he was dead in the hospital.”

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