LAPD union says three men escalated the incidents in which they died. The January deaths have fueled calls for reform.
The Los Angeles Police Protective League defended the actions of officers involved in three fatal incidents in January in a letter to the Los Angeles City Council on Thursday, Jan. 19, accusing the three men who were killed of escalating the situations.
Mayor Karen Bass has also weighed in, saying, “Especially as a former health care professional, I am deeply troubled that mental health experts were not called in, even when there was a documented history of past mental health crisis.” Anderson, the father of a 6-year-old, had been a teacher for more than eight years, the past six months at Digital Pioneers Academy, a charter school in Washington, D.C.
Shortly after Anderson’s arrest, Los Angeles Fire Department personnel gave him medical assistance and he was taken to a hospital in Santa Monica where he went into cardiac arrest and died, police said.
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