— Federal prosecutors are investigating whether Louisiana State Police brass obstructed justice to protect the troopers seen on long-withheld body camera video punching, dragging and stunning Black motorist Ronald Greene during his fatal 2019 arrest. I’m scared!” A key point under scrutiny in the federal investigation came just a day after the AP published the video, when the head of …
— More than a year and a half after Louisiana state troopers were captured on body camera video brutalizing Black motorist Ronald Greene during his fatal arrest, police brass were still trying to blame his death on a car crash at the end of a high-speed chase. Though the autopsy listed Greene’s cause of death as “cocaine induced agitated delirium …
CNN — A Louisiana state trooper who died in a car wreck in September was heard on a recently released audio recording obtained by The Associated Press describing beating and choking a Black man. Lee Merritt, one of three attorneys representing the Greene family, told CNN Hollingsworth’s fatal crash happened the same day he received a notice of termination. Wrongful …
