Body-worn camera footage captured a Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officer choking a suicidal music producer who was handcuffed to a gurney in North Hollywood last month, after the producer appeared to spit in the officer’s direction.
On October 4, Los Angeles firefighters requested that LAPD respond to a street in North Hollywood to assist them with an “attempted suicide.”
In a radio call, a Los Angeles firefighter said that 29-year-old Jesse Batten had reportedly been “texting pictures of like a hanging rope from the ceiling” to a friend earlier that day and admitted that he was “uh like, feeling suicidal.”
LAPD officers responded to the scene and assisted firefighters in handcuffing Batten, body-worn camera footage released early November shows.