Witnesses Dispute Police Version
Three women say the individual in California was beaten after he was cuffed. Officers say he wasn’t. The man later died in custody.
A grainy cellphone video circulating on TV news Tuesday shows what an attorney representing the decedent’s family says is an officer striking the decedent with a baton. But the video is so dark and short, it’s hard to make out what happened.
Cornejo was pronounced dead Saturday evening, after he was apprehended in a foot chase at the project.
Responding to questions in the community, the LAPD on Tuesday released a more detailed narrative of what detectives said happened during the final moments of the chase. Officials acknowledged that officers struck the man with a baton, but they said it happened only after he ignored orders to stop walking away and started fighting with them.
