A man was hospitalized in critical condition after a confrontation with Anaheim police officers, a police official said Sunday. The man, whom police identified as Fermin Vincent Valenzuela of Anaheim, became combative when officers attempted to speak to him, Wyatt said. Family members told the OC Weekly that the confrontation left Valenzuela, father of two children, in a coma at West Anaheim Medical Center. The run-in with Anaheim officers comes nearly five years after the beating death of Kelly Thomas, a 37-year-old schizophrenic homeless man who died in 2011 after a run-in with Fullerton police officers. Video from the arresting officers’ body cameras has been turned over to Orange County prosecutors, he added.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 04, 2016 02:28 UTC