Kenyatta Allen

Less-than-lethal force

Kenyatta Allen was arrested shortly before 1 a.m. by the Mobile Police Department and charged with loitering for the purpose of drug activity, failure to obey a police officer, resisting arrest and giving a false name to a police officer, police said. Allen was in the docket room of the Metro Jail at 3:30 a.m. with about 25 other inmates who were waiting to be booked into the jail when he fell to the floor. He was taken to the University of South Alabama Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Police said he swallowed a bag that may have contained cocaine.