AP — 5 Louisiana officers were charged Thursday with state crimes in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene.
Facing the most serious charge was Kory York, who was seen on the body-camera footage dragging Greene by his ankle shackles, putting his foot on his back to force him down & leaving the heavyset man face down in the dirt for more than 9 minutes. The state police’s own force instructor called the troopers’ actions “torture & murder.” York was charged with negligent homicide & 10 counts of malfeasance in office.
The others who faced various counts of malfeasance & obstruction included a trooper who denied the existence of his body-camera footage, another who exaggerated Greene’s resistance on the scene, a commander who detectives say pressured them not to make an arrest in the case & a deputy heard on the video taunting Greene with the words “s—- hurts, doesn’t it?”
Greene’s May 10, 2019, death was shrouded in secrecy from the beginning. Authorities told grieving relatives that the 49-year-old died in a car crash at the end of a high-speed chase. An account questioned by both his family & an emergency room doctor who noted Greene’s battered body. Still, a coroner’s report listed Greene’s cause of death as a motor vehicle accident, a state police crash report omitted any mention of troopers using force.
Body-camera video remained so secret it was withheld from Greene’s initial autopsy & officials declined requests to release it.
Last year, the AP obtained the footage, which showed what really happened: Troopers swarming Greene’s car, stunning him repeatedly, punching him in the head, dragging him by the shackles. At times, Greene could be heard pleading for mercy & wailing, “I’m your brother! I’m scared!
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