Lahna (left), a 40-plus-year-old wild-caught red-lored Amazon, and Clark, a 30-plus-year-old lilac-crowned Amazon Photo: Daniel Meigs
Itâs a gloomy day when the Scene stops by the Exotic Avian Sanctuary of Tennessee, but the space is full of bright flashes of color, an array of green and yellow, sky blue and gleaming white. Itâs also full of chirps and songs. And at-times-deafening squawks and caws. Plus, thereâs an Indian rose-ringed parakeet who will butt into conversations to ask, âReally?â
The skeptical little yellow bird is named Britches, and heâs one of the permanent residents of the sanctuary. Heâs also one of the more famous ones, having starred in a slate of videos posted online. Kim Hannah, founder of the sanctuary, says Britches was found somewhere outside Atlanta and adopted. When his family couldnât care for him any longer, they surrendered him to the sanctuary. Itâs a common story â�
The ACLU of Louisiana and the family of a man killed during an arrest with Louisiana State Police two years ago will hold a rally Thursday demanding accountability for the officers involved as well as calling for reform. Two years ago, Louisiana State Troopers claimed Ronald Greene died in a car crash, but body camera footage finally released to the public last week shows Greene being brutally beaten by officers and denied lifesaving aid,.
Bodycam video shows shackled motorist Ronald Greene was ordered facedown during deadly arrest
Updated on: May 22, 2021 / 2:24 PM / CBS/AP Cops seen punching, tasing Black man before death
Beaten and shackled by Louisiana state troopers, Black motorist Ronald Greene desperately tried to roll over in what may have been a struggle to breathe but was ordered to stay on his belly, according to body-camera video released by the Louisiana State Police.
A long-secret autopsy report, obtained by the Associated Press, cited Greene s head injuries and the way he was restrained as factors in his 2019 death. It also noted he had high levels of cocaine and alcohol in his system as well as a broken breastbone and a torn aorta.
Ronald Greene, 49, died in May 2019 after a car chase with Louisiana troopers
Greene s family was initially told he died in a car crash near Monroe
Bodycam footage his mother was shown last year shows a violent arrest
Greene was tasered in his car, dragged out, tasered again and handcuffed
He tells the officers: Brother, I m scared as they scream obscenities at him
At one point Greene, handcuffed, is dragged by his feet, face down on ground
He was left on the ground for nine minutes as they cleaned his blood off them
A supervisor arrives and thanks the troopers for their good work