From [HERE] The family of a 37-year-old man who died after being taken into police custody is accusing the El Monte Police Department of using excessive force.

The sister of the Khoa Anh Le called police at 11 pm on the night of June 14 because Le had gotten into a pushing match with his father, according to the Pasadena Star-News. She told a 9-1-1 operator about Le's mental health issues. By the time that police arrived, his family says that Le had calmed down and was sitting on his bed and using a computer. But later that evening after getting into a fight with police, Le was transported to a hospital where he died around 12:21 am. His family plans to file a claim against the El Monte Police Department. They're comparing his death to the fatal beating of Kelly Thomas.

The family's attorney told Star-News that police confronted Le on his bed and asked to see his hands. The family said they watched officers drag Le from his bedroom, strike him about 20 times with a flashlight, use a Taser on him four times and place him in a chokehold. 

Many of those blows and shocks were delivered after Le had been incapacitated, his family says. His brother said that when he told the officer to stop hitting his motionless brother, the officer cursed at him before kicking Le and tasing him some more. (It wouldn't be the first time in recent memory that an El Monte Police officerkicked a man who had stopped resisting.) "The police kicked him several times while he was down on his knees," his sister Diane Le told the Star-News. The family told the Los Angeles Times that they believe it was the chokehold that police administered that ultimately killed him.