Five Louisiana law enforcement officers have been charged with state crimes ranging from negligent homicide to malfeasance in the deadly 2019 arrest of a Black motorist.
showed white officers beating, stunning and dragging the Black motorist as he wailed, “I’m scared!”
Others, including a Union Parish sheriff’s deputy and three other troopers, were charged with malfeasance and obstruction of justice.Greene’s mother The panel has since last month considered detailed evidence and testimony related to the troopers’ use of force and their decision to leave the handcuffed Greene prone for several minutes before rendering aid. And for the first time in the case, a medical expert deemed Greene’s death a homicide.
All the while, the body-camera video remained so secret it was withheld from Greene’s initial autopsy and officials fromBut then last year, the AP obtained and publishedthat showed what really happened: Troopers swarming Greene’s car, stunning him repeatedly, punching him in the head, dragging him by his ankle shackles and leaving him prone on the ground for more than nine minutes.
The AP later found that Greene’s arrest was among at least a dozen cases over the past decade in which state police troopers or their bosses ignored or concealed evidence of beatings of mostly Black men, deflected blame and impeded efforts to root out misconduct. Dozens of current and former troopers said the beatings were countenanced by a culture of impunity, nepotism and, in some cases, racism.
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