Surviving family members and other advocates for Ronald Greene, who died in the custody of Louisiana State Police officers in May 2019, rallied on the steps of the State Capitol in Baton Rouge Thursday. They demanded that authorities take immediate action against the officers involved in Greene’s death now that a video showing some of Greene’s final moments has been made public.
Thursday’s rally marked 100 days since the 49-year-old died after leading state troopers on a high-speed chase in Monroe. Last week the Associated Press released leaked body-cam footage that showed White Louisiana State Police troopers kicking, dragging and using stun guns on Green, a Black man who was prone and handcuffed. Troopers initially told Greene’s family that he died on impact after crashing his car, according to the AP report that broke the story.
From the steps of the Capitol, Judy Reese Morse, president of the Urban League of Louisiana, said, “This is not as complex as some may try to make this. Stay clear and focused on what this is: We want every trooper involved in this incident to be terminated immediately. And then after the terminations, we want every single trooper involved in this incident to be arrested, and then we want them to be charged.”
In October, the Associated Press released a 27-second audio clip which reportedly catches one of the troopers on the scenetelling a colleague of Greene, “I beat the ever-living f— out of him.” That trooper later died in a single-vehicle crash hours after he learned an internal investigation had been launched — more than a year after Greene’s death.
Last year, Gov. John Bel Edwards allowed Greene’s family and their attorneys to privately view the body-cam footage but did not release it to the public until late last week following the AP’s release of the leaked footage.
Other speakers at Thursday’s rally included family members of Trayford Pellerin, a 31-year-old Black man who was fatally shot multiple times by Lafayette police on Aug. 21, 2020, family members of Tommie McGlothen, a 44-year-old Black man who died in the custody of Shreveport police on April 5 and others who said they’d been victimized by police..
Alanah Odoms, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana, told the crowd that Greene’s family will not just go away.
“His family is not going to stop fighting for justice,” she said.
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