La Mesa Police Bodycam of the protests & Leslie Furcron being shot with a bean bag round in the head

LA MESA, Calif. — The La Mesa Police Department on Wednesday released body-worn camera footage and "an accompanying critical incident video" of a woman being hit with a bean bag projectile during a protest on May 30. The protester, 59-year-old Leslie Furcron, was hospitalized after being struck by what her attorney, Dante Pride, described as a "flying blackjack" and a "metal projectile bean bag," leaving her in an intensive care unit in a medically induced coma. The department describes the projectile as a "less-lethal bean bag round."

La Mesa police also identified the officer that fired the round which struck Furcron as Detective Eric Knudson. Officials said he has been with the department for 12 years and is currently on paid administrative leave.

Furcron was outside LMPD headquarters with a crowd of fellow protesters demonstrating against police brutality when she was struck in the forehead by the projectile

Critical incident video can be seen below and body camera footage is shown in the video player above. Text in the video describes the protest as beginning peacefully but evolving into civil unrest when protesters made their way onto nearby Interstate 8.

The video says the protest which continued outside LMPD headquarters was declared an unlawful assembly at 5:09 p.m. after an act of arson was committed in the are and protesters reportedly began throwing rocks at officers.

"Multiple orders to disperse were given," the video states.

The video states that Furcron arrived at the LMPD parking lot at approximately 8:14 p.m. According to police, the distance between Detective Knudson who fired the bean bag round and Furcron was approximately 96 feet.

About five-and-a-half minutes into the video above text on the screen states that Furcron in a white shirt can be seen throwing an object in the portion of the video that follows. She is seen falling a few moments later. The video is zoomed in and highlighted in the next portion to reportedly show Furcron throwing something.

Furcron's attorney called the video release a "well-produced PR montage."

“I've filed requests for myriad number of police body-worn video and this is first time I'm seeing a video with slides, drawing, diagrams," Pride said.

As for the object Furcron allegedly threw, Pride said it was an empty soda can and said her worst offense was littering. “Had that can struck an officer, or even come close... you would believe and I know that would've been on the video that they released," said Pride.
The incident came under scrutiny after video of Furcron being hit by the projectile from her own Facebook live stream circulated online along with pictures of her injuries. The police department began an immediate internal investigation into the matter and took Knudson off active duty pending completion of that probe, Vasquez said.
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