• Video shows police using stun gun on NBA player in July
  • LAPD’s Force Investigation Incident is looking into incident
  • Hayes, 21, was selected eighth overall in 2019 NBA draft

A Los Angeles police officer briefly pressed a knee to the neck of NBA player Jaxson Hayes as the New Orleans Pelicans center gasped “I can’t breathe” seconds before another officer used a Taser on him during a struggle, according to body camera video released Friday.

The officers went to Hayes’ home in the Woodland Hills neighborhood on 28 July around 3am after his girlfriend’s cousin called 911. The cousin said Hayes’ girlfriend was sending her text messages saying he had become loud and violent and she was scared.

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