LOS ANGELES — Videos released this week of a teacher who died after Los Angeles police discharged a Taser on him at least six times on a Venice street raises serious concerns about the officers’ tactics, law enforcement experts who reviewed the tapes said.
The LAPD’s actions have sparked alarms from community activists as well as Mayor Karen Bass and is now the subject of an internal investigation.
Several policing experts who reviewed the video for the Los Angeles Times said the amount of force used by the officers seemed excessive given the man’s actions and that some of the tactics seemed haphazard.
