Ronald Greene punched and dragged by police before his death, video shows
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* Greene, 49, died after confrontation with officers in 2019 * Louisiana police initially refused to release bodycam footage
Sean Greene, Ronald’s brother, at a protest in Washington last year. Greene’s family said police told them he had died after his car crashed during a police pursuit. Photograph: Michael M Santiago/EPA
Lauren Aratani Sun 23 May 2021 01.24 AEST Last modified on Sun 23 May 2021 01.28 AEST
Two years after Ronald Greene, a 49-year-old Black man, died after a confrontation with white police officers in May 2019, the Louisiana .. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/louisiana .. police department released footage of the incident.
Louisiana state police had refused to publicly release footage from the incident, which they claimed culminated in Greene dying from crashing into a tree and injuring his head.
The videos, taken from body and dashboard cameras from the officers on the scene, showed the disturbing encounter Greene had with the police that night. Officers started to pursue Greene for an unspecified traffic violation just after midnight. Officers are seen punching Greene and using a stun gun while he is on the ground.
At one point during the video, Greene pleads with the officers: “I’m your brother! I’m scared! I’m scared!” The officers on the scene are heard calling him a “stupid motherfucker” and dragged him face down on the ground after handcuffing him.
Greene’s family said police told them he had died after his car crashed during a police pursuit. Police later adjusted the story and said he had struggled with officers and died on his way to the hospital. No cause of death was mentioned in Greene’s autopsy report.
Two investigations, an internal inquiry from Louisiana police and a federal civil rights investigation, began at the end of last summer – over a year after Greene’s death. Greene’s family has also filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the officers involved.
Citing these investigations, police refused to release footage until Friday. Col Lamar Davis, the state police superintendent, said the agency decided to release the footage to encourage “healing”.
Police superintendent Lamar Davis at a press briefing on Friday. Photograph: Alyssa Berry/AP
“There could have been an investigation that was immediately opened. But the family was also lied to that he died in a car crash. If you’re going to investigate yourself and give the family a BS reason for his death hoping they don’t look into it, it’s never going to come out,” he said.
Davis, the police chief, said he intends to fire one of the state troopers involved, according to the Advocate. A second trooper died in a car crash last year, shortly after he was informed of his imminent termination. A third officer received a 50-hour suspension.
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F.B.I. Investigates Louisiana Man’s Death After Police Chase
The Louisiana State Police said Ronald Greene died in a crash after leading troopers on a high-speed chase. Over a year later, photos of his injuries have raised new questions about his death.
Sean Greene at the Lincoln Memorial on the 57th anniversary of the March on Washington last month. His brother, Ronald Greene, died after leading troopers on a high-speed chase in Louisiana last year. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images
By Marie Fazio Published Sept. 21, 2020 Updated May 19, 2021
Federal authorities have opened a civil rights investigation as new questions have surfaced about the death of a Black man after a high-speed police chase in northern Louisiana last year.
Relatives of the man, Ronald Greene .. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/19/us/Ronald-Greene-Louisiana-State-Police.html , 49, were initially told that he had died from injuries he sustained in a crash after he failed to stop for a traffic violation, a lawyer for his family said. But photos that recently circulated online — the images appear to show Mr. Greene’s bruised and bloodied face and damage to his car that the family says is inconsistent with a fatal accident — have raised questions about what really happened.
“The brutality used against him, that was not what his family was told,” Lee Merritt, a lawyer representing Mr. Greene’s family, said in an interview on Sunday. “It appears that Mr. Greene was sat upon by several officers who tased him repeatedly and beat him before he entered cardiac arrest.”
The photos were shared on social media after the president of the N.A.A.C.P.’s Baton Rouge branch posted them on Facebook last week. The images were also included in a wrongful-death lawsuit that Mr. Greene’s family filed in May arguing that he died as a result of a struggle with troopers that “left him beaten, bloodied and in cardiac arrest.”
One of the Louisiana state troopers involved in the encounter with Mr. Greene, Chris Hollingsworth, was placed on paid administrative leave, said Capt. Chavez Cammon, a spokesman for the department. It was unclear if the federal investigation had prompted that decision.
Trooper Hollingsworth died on Tuesday, a day after he was seriously injured in a one-car crash, said Sgt. Michael Fendall, a spokesman for the Police Department in Monroe, La. The cause of the crash is under investigation, he said.
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