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
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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 newly obtained by the Associated Press.
And the long-secret autopsy report, also newly secured, 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.
“I beat the ever-living f out of him, choked him and everything else trying to get him under control,” Trooper Chris Hollingsworth can be heard telling a fellow officer in the newly obtained batch of video. “All of a sudden he just went limp. . I thought he was dead.”