Video After The Jump
AP - A Louisiana State Police trooper has been suspended without pay for kicking & dragging a handcuffed Black man whose in-custody death remains unexplained & the subject of a federal civil rights investigation.
Body camera footage shows Master Trooper Kory York dragging Ronald Greene “on his stomach by the leg shackles” following a violent arrest and high-speed pursuit, according to internal State Police records obtained by The Associated Press.
The records are the first public acknowledgement by State Police that Greene was mistreated & they confirm details provided last year by an attorney for Greene’s family who viewed graphic body camera footage of the May 2019 arrest & likened it the police killing of George Floyd. The video shows troopers choking & beating the man, repeatedly jolting him with stun guns & dragging him face-down across the pavement, the attorney told AP.
State Police have repeatedly refused to publicly release the body camera footage. The agency has been tight lipped about Greene’s death & initially blamed the man’s fatal injuries on a car crash outside Monroe, La.
York, who turned his own body camera off on his way to the scene, was suspended without pay for 50 hours following an internal investigation that also led to the termination of another trooper, Chris Hollingsworth, who died in a single-car crash after learning he had been fired over his role in the incident. The AP last year published a 27-second audio clip from Hollingsworth’s body camera in which he can be heard telling a colleague, “I beat the ever-living f--- out of” Greene before he “all of a sudden he just went limp.”
Greene’s family has renewed calls for the release of bodycam video.
His name was #RonaldGreene. His family was told by Lousiana State Troopers he died in a car accident. He was beat, choked and tased to death. No use of force was mentioned in the police report. pic.twitter.com/HDRREqqeku
— S. Lee Merritt, Esq. (@MeritLaw) October 1, 2020
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