Posted on 05/20/2021 4:36:03 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Louisiana state troopers were captured on body camera video stunning, punching and dragging a Black man as he apologized for leading them on a high-speed chase...
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Wait until it is your turn. They [The Police] hate jackboot lickers like you. They refer to them as ass kissers. They have more respect for the criminal element than they do for characters such as you.
Keep in mind the report they filed claimed he died when the car crashed into a tree.
Does anyone read the articles on cop shot perp stories
It seems like almost nobody
Just instant applause and high fives
“Another ni$$er acted up and got what they deserved”
I don’t think I’m thought of here as an NWORDLOVER
I don’t think anyone here has mentioned that until forced cops continued to claim he was killed in the wreck
Balls to lie so flagrantly these cops eh who beat a cuffed NWORD to death
what’s also unusual
This is State Police
Not local or county
Where I’m from that means college degree fairly professional
Mississippi highway patrol doesn’t do this much
Very possible.
You are actually more likely to die at the hands of the police for trivial reasons if you are white then if you are black.
In this case I would need to know more before I pick a side.
I’m with you on it.
But then, I learned decades ago that the police are not like they are in a Norman Rockwell painting.
I’ve been on the road, and wifi service has been sketchy, but I wanted to address a few things about this case that I know. I did some investigating on my own when the case first became public a year ago - open records requests, etc. Also, I’m good friends with the almost DA of this district, and we had a long phone conversation about how things work in a DA’s office.
First, the Louisiana State Police said the man died in the vehicle crash, and so stated on an official report. That right there is a crime in Louisiana, false reporting or some such.
So a year ago, the family files a federal wrongful death lawsuit, and this is the very first the public learns anything at all about the case. Remember, the incident occurred TWO years ago, May 2019.
DA John Fitzgerald Kennedy Belton claims that’s when he turned things over to the feds, about May 2020. So he sat on the file for a year, without empaneling a grand jury, or anything else. Now he is hiding behind the feds, claiming his hands are tied.
That is complete and utter bullshit. My attorney friend is an assistant DA in an adjoining district, and came within 400 votes of beating Belton when he was first elected in 2014. The way it works, he says, is the DA’s office gets the case files immediately after any incident, and the DA directs the investigation, not the cops.
So this whole thing has been a big coverup from the get go. And lots of folks have fingerprints on the coverup, and many careers are at stake here.
I had mentioned upthread that Belton thinks he wants to be Louisiana Attorney General. This case is a dagger to the heart of those plans.
A year ago, I executed public records requests to the Union Parish (county) Coroner for the autopsy. She said she couldn’t, because of the “investigation.” Louisiana Law is explicit that no investigation shall prohibit the public release of autopsies. I’m contemplating a lawsuit to enforce the records request.
I also requested from the Union Parish Sheriff reports they generated on the incident. A deputy was at the scene.
Those reports were pretty basic, with times and dates, etc. I don’t think there were any lies, but a lot of stuff appears to have been left out.
I visited with Belton at a meeting several months ago and like I said, he tap danced all around the case. He’s good at that. I told him about the non response from the coroner, and he offered no help in getting the public’s records released.
Leaving aside what culpability the Louisiana State Police may or may not have in Ronald Greene’s death, this thing has been a giant ass coverup from day one. They’re still trying to pull it off. Yesterday, the governor was asked about it, and he’s still trying to say “it’s under investigation” etc, etc. So he’s now part of the problem.
Bottom line, the death occurred in Belton’s judicial district and he has what is known in Louisiana as “original jurisdiction.” That is to say he has complete authority over EVERY criminal case that happens there. He immediately sent it to the feds, hoping that they would keep the coverup going.
It ain’t gonna work. Too many people have seen the video, and several cops and attorneys may loose careers over this.
“It’s not the crime, it’s the coverup.”
Then why did you ask that question? The article provides the answer.
Here’s Scott McKay’s take on the incident. He’s one of the more popular conservative commenters here in Louisiana.
We’re Pretty Shocked At The Lack Of Accountability For The Ronald Greene Fiasco
May 20th, 2021 MacAoidh
We didn’t do much of anything about the case of Ronald Greene, a Monroe-area barber who died after he fled from the Louisiana State Police on country roads in Union Parish near the Arkansas state line back in May of 2019, because at the time our understanding of the case was that Greene had died of injuries sustained when he crashed his vehicle into a tree. There was a small bit of rumbling about the Greene case in political activist circles on the Left, but we figured that if the usual suspects weren’t fired up about what happened to him there wasn’t much to comment on.
Well, that understanding doesn’t hold anymore. Based on the clips we’ve seen from body-camera video taken at the scene of Greene’s death, this one looks a lot worse than George Floyd, Alton Sterling, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner or Daunte Wright. And all we can do is question why there was no hue and cry about it like there has been for all of those cases.
Louisiana state troopers can be seen on a dark roadside stunning, punching and dragging a Black man as he apologizes for leading them on a high-speed chase — body camera video of the moments leading up to the man’s death that The Associated Press obtained after authorities refused to release it for two years.
“I’m your brother! I’m scared! I’m scared!” Ronald Greene can be heard telling the white troopers as the unarmed man is jolted repeatedly with a stun gun before he even gets out of his car.
The 2019 arrest outside Monroe is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation. But unlike other in-custody deaths across the nation where body camera video was released almost immediately, Greene’s case has been shrouded in secrecy and accusations of a cover-up.
Louisiana officials have rebuffed repeated calls to release footage and details about what caused the 49-year-old’s death. Troopers initially told Greene’s family he died on impact after crashing into a tree during the chase. Later, State Police released a one-page statement acknowledging only that Greene struggled with troopers and died on his way to the hospital.
Maybe there’s body-cam footage we haven’t seen which shows a struggle. If he wasn’t cooperative enough for the troopers, our guess is that had a lot to do with the fact they tased him even before they got him out of the car, then they tased him again when they got him on the ground. If he wanted to cooperate with them, which he repeatedly declared was the case, it would have been less possible given the condition they had put him in.
And from the footage we’ve seen, this wasn’t a situation like the Floyd case, in which the “victim” was in the process of dying of a drug overdose. Greene sounded pretty lucid. We don’t know if he was drunk or high, but he certainly wasn’t speaking gibberish like Floyd was when the Minneapolis cops arrested him.
Greene wails “I’m sorry!” as another trooper delivers another stun gun shock to his backside and warns, “Look, you’re going to get it again if you don’t put your f——- hands behind your back!” Another trooper can be seen briefly dragging the man facedown after his legs had been shackled and his hands cuffed behind him.
Instead of rendering aid, the troopers leave the burly man unattended, facedown and moaning for more than nine minutes, as they use sanitizer wipes to wash blood off their hands and faces.
“I hope this guy ain’t got f—— AIDS,” one of the troopers can be heard saying.
After a several-minute stretch in which Greene is not seen on camera, he appears again, limp, unresponsive and bleeding from his head and face. He is then loaded onto an ambulance gurney, his arm cuffed to the bedrail.
In many parts of the video, Greene is not on screen, and the trooper appears to cut the microphone off about halfway through, making it difficult to piece together exactly what was happening at all times. At least six troopers were on the scene of the arrest but not all had their body cameras on.
In one clip from the footage, they’ve got his legs shackled and he’s lying face down, and one trooper comes along and grabs the chain between his ankles and drags him what looks like five or six feet so his stomach and face are scraping on the ground. We don’t claim to be experts in police procedure but we’re pretty sure that’s not in the handbook.
The trooper doing the dragging’s name is Kory York. He got a 50-hour suspension from the Louisiana State Police.
Two others at the scene were Trooper Dakota DeMoss and Master Trooper Chris Hollingsworth. Neither are on the force anymore.
Greene, a barber, failed to pull over for an unspecified traffic violation shortly after midnight on May 10, 2019, about 30 miles south of the Arkansas state line. That’s where the video obtained by AP begins, with Trooper Dakota DeMoss chasing Greene’s SUV on rural highways at over 115 mph.
Seconds before the chase ended, DeMoss warned on his radio: “We got to do something. He’s going to kill somebody.”
As DeMoss and Master Trooper Chris Hollingsworth rush Greene’s SUV, he can be seen appearing to raise his hands and saying over and over, “OK, OK. I’m sorry.”
Hollingsworth shocks Greene with a stun gun within seconds through the driver’s side window as both troopers demand he get out of the vehicle.
Greene exits through the passenger side as the troopers wrestle him to the ground. One trooper can be heard saying “He’s grabbing me” as they try to handcuff him. “Put your hands behind your back, bitch,” one trooper says.
Hollingsworth strikes Greene multiple times and appears to lie on one of his arms before he is finally handcuffed.
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Hollingsworth, in a separate recording obtained by AP, can be heard telling a colleague at the office that “he beat the ever-living f— out of” Greene.
“Choked him and everything else trying to get him under control,” Hollingsworth is heard saying. “He was spitting blood everywhere, and all of a sudden he just went limp.”
Hollingsworth later died in a single-vehicle highway crash that happened hours after he learned he would be fired for his role in the Greene case.
DeMoss, meanwhile, was arrested in connection with a separate police pursuit last year in which he and two other troopers allegedly used excessive force while handcuffing a motorist.
Exactly what caused Greene’s death remains unclear. Union Parish Coroner Renee Smith told AP last year his death was ruled accidental and attributed to cardiac arrest. Smith, who was not in office when that determination was made, said her office’s file on Greene attributed his death to a car crash and made no mention of a struggle with State Police.
The AP last year also obtained a medical report showing an emergency room doctor noted Greene arrived dead at the hospital, bruised and bloodied with two stun-gun prongs in his back. That led the doctor to question troopers’ initial account that Greene had “died on impact” after crashing into a tree.
“Does not add up,” the doctor wrote.
Col. Kevin Reeves was the head of the Louisiana State Police. They let him retire last year without there even being much controversy over the Ronald Greene case. And John Bel Edwards let Greene’s family see all this video but said he wasn’t going to release it until the federal investigation was over.
The federal investigation still isn’t over and the State Police still hasn’t released the video. It leaked to the Associated Press.
Last night this stuff finally started to get some coverage in the Louisiana legacy media. We’d like to point out that this incident happened in May of 2019, which was nearly six months before the 2019 election.
And there was zero coverage of the incident in 2019. Like we said above, our impression was that Greene decided to do a Smokey and the Bandit impression but found out he was no Burt Reynolds and died in a car wreck as a result. Later we found out that was questionable, but the full scope of what happened on that desolate roadside is only now coming out.
Which smells an awful lot like a coverup that Louisiana’s legacy media happily assisted in.
Because had John Bel Edwards been a Republican governor, and had the Republican governor’s state police beaten a black man who wasn’t a wanted criminal or a suspect in a felony reported to the police – Greene fled from a traffic stop, that’s it – to death on a roadside, it would have been the kind of scandal that a forced retirement of the State Police commandant couldn’t have put to bed. You’d have had riots and looting, you’d have had Ben Crump press conferences and Joy Reid declaring Jim Crow is alive and well in Louisiana.
You’d have had all of those things.
What’s more, some of that would have been justified. It’s justified now. All Louisianans, black or white, should be furious that our employees would behave in such ways while on our dime. The new head of the State Police says there’s no systemic racism on the force, and that’s supposed to make us feel better, but it doesn’t – because what he’s then saying is that any one of us can be beaten to death on a roadside as we’re trying to apologize for making a stupid decision to try to escape a traffic stop for an expired brake tag or failing to use a turn signal.
As taxpayers we’re disgusted at this, because Greene’s family is going to end up with generational wealth at our expense thanks to the LSP brute squad who killed him, and we’re already paying more than enough in taxes to fund a state government which gives us a pitiful product for its price.
We’ll have to give credit to the black community in Monroe and surrounding areas, which is not radicalized like others in the state and managed to refrain from burning the city down as a result of the Greene case. Maybe that had to do with the fact the local law enforcement folks had nothing to do with this disgrace, but those kinds of distinctions haven’t been made in other cases. It reflects well on North Louisiana that civility has ruled.
The problem is that without the riots and looting, the legacy media in this state just buried the Ronald Greene case until after the election, and then they buried it some more while they whipped everyone up into a frenzy over COVID last year. And Edwards, who you’ll remember corrupted the State Police on his way to winning election the first time, benefited from both.
As voters, of course, we’re also disgusted at this. John Bel Edwards got more black votes in Louisiana than Barack Obama did, six months after his state police beat a non-violent, non-criminal black man to death on a roadside for running from a traffic stop in a case which makes a better Black Lives Matter argument than Michael Brown, Rayshard Brooks or
If he was a Republican there would be calls for his resignation over the case. He certainly wouldn’t have been re-elected after the scandal the media would have made Ronald Greene’s death into. Why the citizens of Louisiana tolerate this kind of double standard is beyond us. It ought to make blood boil and change happen.
....smells an awful lot like a coverup that Louisiana’s legacy media happily assisted in.
Because had John Bel Edwards been a Republican governor, and had the Republican governor’s state police beaten a black man who wasn’t a wanted criminal or a suspect in a felony reported to the police – Greene fled from a traffic stop, that’s it – to death on a roadside, it would have been the kind of scandal that a forced retirement of the State Police commandant couldn’t have put to bed. You’d have had riots and looting, you’d have had Ben Crump press conferences and Joy Reid declaring Jim Crow is alive and well in Louisiana.
What side are they supposed to take?
The cops are on film VIOLATING THE LAW!!! After LYING FOR OVER 2 YEARS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED...
What side are you suggesting they take?
Hey for 2 years the police LIED about what happened, video shows them beating a man literally to DEATH... What “SIDE” do you suggest the media take here?
OH, Don’t believe your eyes, he wasn’t beaten to death? Oh, yea, the cops didn’t lie about it for years?
Seriously folks, what “Side” are you suggesting the media take on this one?
So in your mind, because you have an adrenaline rush you are justified in beating someone to death?
Glad we know where you stand.
These cops are criminals, and the system that LIED AND COVERED UP WHAT THEY DID FOR YEARS shows they aren’t they only ones.
Great work. I hope you keep posting about this.
“So in your mind, because you have an adrenaline rush you are justified in beating someone to death?”
Yep, that’s exactly what I said in my comment, word for word. You got a problem with that?
New today.
https://www.myarklamiss.com/top-news/governor-edwards-responds-to-video-of-ronald-greenes-arrest/
Governor Edwards responds to video of Ronald Greene’s arrest
https://www.kplctv.com/2021/05/21/lsp-hold-press-conference-ronald-greene-case/
LSP releases all body cam videos on Ronald Greene case
https://wgno.com/news/crime/watch-live-louisiana-state-police-discuss-the-ronald-greene-investigative-process/
Watch: Louisiana State Police discuss the Ronald Greene investigative process
https://reason.com/2021/05/21/body-camera-footage-shows-fatal-beating-louisiana-troopers-tried-to-pass-off-as-a-car-crash/
Louisiana Troopers Claimed Ronald Greene Died in a Car Crash. Body Cam Footage Shows a Deadly Beating.
https://news.yahoo.com/video-ronald-greene-arrest-louisiana-225054732.html
New Video of Ronald Greene Arrest in Louisiana Is Just Brutal
If that’s the country you want-then we should have NEVER fought the revolution-because that’s what we had BEFORE the revolution-and that’s what a third would country looks like.
You don’t want a “true nation of laws that follows the constitution “-you want your version of it. Congratulations-you are no true patriot.
Calm down. Many were duped and we don’t have a media with a good track record.
Read through the thread to see how the conversation has developed, please.
I like the part where you call me a moron.
I published this story this morning.
Union Parish Sheriff’s Office Report on Greene Homicide
Last year when the Ronald Greene homicide case first became public, we suspected a massive and co-ordinated coverup among several government agencies was underway to conceal both the manner of death and the people involved in the incident.
Our suspicions appear to have been accurate.
Acting upon those suspicions, we executed several public records request, one of which was to the Union Parish Sheriff’s Office for any reports it may have generated relative to the incident. After several months, we received a response.
Our request was made on 9/14/2020, and the response is dated 02/23/2021.
It consists of a call sheet, a log of personnel involved, and a narrative by Union Parish Sheriff’s Office (UPSO) Deputy Chris Harpin. His narrative reads as follows:
On Friday May 10, 2019 at approximately 0022 hours I, Dy. Chris Harpin, was advised by dispatch that LSP was in pursuit of a northbound vehicle on Hwy. 143, in Ouachita Parish, and they were asking for assistance. I then went towards the intersection of Hwy. 2 and Hwy. 143 at Crossroads.
I asked dispatch to notify Pafford Ambulance Service, so they would be on standby, in case the pursued vehicle wrecked. Prior to my arrival, dispatch advised me the vehicle wrecked and that the Troopers in pursuit could not be reached by radio. Then, dispatch advised that the Troopers were calling for more units. Upon arrival, I observed two LSP units and a small, silver SUV on Crossroads Loop. As I approached on foot, I saw the two Troopers in between their cars, on the ground, with a unidentified B/M. The Troopers were asking the B/M to give them his right hand so they could handcuff him. The Troopers asked me to help them get him handcuffed as the B/M was actively resisting them and not complying with their verbal commands. TheTroopers already had the B/M’s left hand in a handcuff, but he was trying to roll on his left side and pull it under his body. The B/M was lying face down on the ground and had his right arm tucked under his upper body with his right hand near his head. I reached under the B/M’s body, trapped his right wrist with both of my hands and pulled his arm down, towards his belt. I then straitened the arm out and pulled his hand up and behind his back. One of the Troopers was then able to handcuff the right hand. The B/M was breathing and grunting as he pulled against the handcuffs.
I then advised dispatch that we had one person in custody and definitely needed medical assistance. The B/M was bleeding from a head wound. More Troopers arrived shortly after getting the B/M handcuffed. Rocky Branch Fire arrived shortly after the back up Troopers and started medical treatment. Pafford arrived approximately 10 minutes after RBFD. The B/M was loaded into the Pafford Ambulance and transported to Glenwood Hospital. We were advised, while still at the scene, that the B/M had died while en route to Glenwood.
LSP advised that they would be sending Detectives to the scene. I helped MT Kory York take measurements of the scene while waiting for the Detectives. At this time I was advised that the B/M’s name was Ronald Allan Greene (B/M, DOB 9/28/1969). Upon the Detectives arrival, I was asked to give a statement of my participation in the incident, which I did. The silver SUV that Greene was driving was removed by Brick’s Towing and taken to Troop F for further examination.
Nothing further.
Dy. Chris Harpin 301
Here is the complete document.
Two other UPSO Deputies were on scene, according to the report – Cade Mobley and Cade Nolan.
https://lincolnparishnewsonline.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/upso-public-records-rq-1.pdf
https://lincolnparishnewsonline.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/greene.pdf
Also today.
https://lincolnparishnewsonline.wordpress.com/2021/05/22/belton-lsp-fbi-timelines-dont-match/
Belton/LSP/FBI Timelines don’t Match
Late yesterday Lamar Davis, commander of the Louisiana State Police issued a timeline of their investigation of the Ronald Greene homicide case.
Davis alleges the following:
05/10/19 – CID-Monroe immediately commences investigation
08/20/19 – CID-Monroe submits case to the Lincoln Parish DA
09/09/19 – CID-Monroe follows up with DA, nothing further needed
02/20/20 – CID-Monroe provides case file to DOJ/FBI
However, Third Judicial (Lincoln, Union Parishes) District Attorney claimed in his Wednesday, 5/19/21 statement:
“…on the day I received the report from the Louisiana State Police, I asked the United States Department of Justice to conduct an independent review of the circumstances surrounding his death, including whether any criminal or civil rights violations occurred.”
Looks like we are going to have to see the paper trail of signed receipts for the case files to determine who is telling the truth.
More.
Amended Lawsuit Filed Thurs, 5/20/21 in Ronald Greene Wrongful Death Civil Case
An amended complaint in the civil lawsuit alleging the wrongful death of Ronald Greene was filed this past Thursday in US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana.
The original lawsuit was filed in May, 2020, a year after the incident that occurred in Union Parish near the Crossroads community.
The amended complaint adds some defendants, and also adds some new language to the facts pleading section of the lawsuit, based upon new information from bodycam videos and the autopsy.
Here is the original lawsuit.
Here is the amended complaint.
Until the original lawsuit was filed, the public knew only what the Louisiana State Police claimed was Greene’s cause of death – a car crash.
Incredible as it may seem here in the Twenty-First Century, several local, state and federal governmental agencies – Louisiana State Police, Third Judicial (Lincoln, Union Parishes) District Attorney, Union Parish Sheriff’s Office, Union Parish Coronor, FBI, and Rocky Branch Fire District – were able to construct a coverup and maintain Omerta for a solid year.
https://lincolnparishnewsonline.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/lawsuit-original.pdf
https://lincolnparishnewsonline.files.wordpress.com/2021/05/lawsuit-amended-052021.pdf
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