Michael Ford

Less-than-lethal force

Police responded about 11 p.m. to a report that a Michael Ford was playing loud music in his other. Police said the officer told Ford to go back inside his apartment. About two hours later, police got another report of loud music in the parking lot. According to police, Ford had a knife in each hand, yelling and approaching the police car. Backup arrived and officers approached Ford. An officer tasered Ford when he allegedly refused to get on the ground. Police said Ford fell and hit his head. Ford's cousin said, he didn't have a knife and that "(The police) beat him up. He had a ruptured spleen, a cracked pelvis and cracks in the front and back of his head. Ford died in a hospital 10 days later. I don't see how you can get all that from a Taser," he said.