Chief Michel Moore in Tuesday’s Police Commission meeting told commissioners he was looking in to whether LAPD could outfit its Tasers with technology that would limit the number of times an …
The Los Angeles Police Department will consider whether its stun guns should be modified to prevent repeated firings of the device after an officerduring a traffic stop earlier this month, with the man dying in a hospital hours later.
Moore said the death of 31-year-old Keenan Anderson on Jan. 3 and the subsequent questions over LAPD’s Taser use “merit consideration of working with the manufacturer to consider establishing a limit.” Moments later, the officer shot Anderson with the Taser once, activating the charge on the device twice from a distance. The officer then placed the Taser directly on Anderson’s clothed back, “dry” stunning him with the device four more times, all in 42 seconds.
The Taser works by firing two prongs attached to wires that, once embedded in a person, can send an electric shock to subdue them. LAPD’s policy states officers should “avoid repeated…applications where practicable to avoid possible injury.” “It has been a number of years,” he told the commission. “In my opinion it certainly is ripe for a deeper look.”
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