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I’ve been thinking about this column every day for the past 365 days because I’ve been thinking about the death of George Floyd every day for the past 365 days. Every day since I first learned his name. Since I first saw that video.
I watched my mother pray for justice each day of the Derek Chauvin trial. A guilty verdict was satisfying, but she would be the first to tell you that verdict alone did not answer her prayers.
Like many Black folks, my mother relies on prayer to help her go on because horrors like the murder of George Floyd won’t allow her to move on. She first left her home state of Mississippi more than 50 years ago because her parents, my grandparents, feared for her life.
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SENSITIVE MATERIAL. THIS IMAGE MAY OFFEND OR DISTURB Louisiana state troopers arrest Ronald Greene May 10, 2019 near Monroe, Louisiana, U.S. in this bodycam footage release May 22, 2021. LOUISIANA STATE POLICE via YOUTUBE/Handout via REUTERS
More video of a fatal 2019 encounter of a Black man with police in Louisiana was released by authorities late Friday, and two state troopers were notified that they will be fired, in the fallout of a lethal traffic stop.
The newly-released bodycam footage shows a high-speed chase and Louisiana state troopers punching motorist Ronald Greene, 49, a Black man, while he was already in handcuffs.
The mother of Ronald Green is calling for accountability in the death of her son after body and dash cam video was released over the weekend two years after the initial incident.
The body cam footage is telling a different story than what police was claiming initially
A body-cam video released by Louisiana authorities showed a Black man being tased, dragged, choked and beaten. The man, who died, was initially claimed by the police to have died in car accident. The incident took place on May 10, 2019 when police in northern Louisiana tried to stop a car driven by Ronald Greene, a 49-year-old barber, for what they said was an unspecified traffic violation.
Greene s relatives have been reported to have said that police initially told that he died on impact when, during a chase, his car crashed into a tree.