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View Comments Speakers at a Thursday rally demanded charges be filed against Louisiana state troopers who stunned, punched, choked and dragged Ronald Greene before his May 2019 death. “Stay clear and focused on what this is: We want every trooper involved in this incident to be terminated immediately. And then after the termination, we want every single trooper involved in this incident to be arrested. And then we want them to be charged,” Judy Reese Morse, president and CEO of the Urban League of Louisiana, said outside the Louisiana state capitol building. Greene, 49, died after his arrest outside of Monroe. Louisiana State Police released body camera and dash camera footage of the incident last Friday after The Associated Press published videos of Greene s arrest earlier in the week. ....
USA TODAY An attorney representing the family of Ronald Greene, a Black man who died in Louisiana police custody, called the release of body camera footage two years after Greene s death a game changer. The public now sees why we ve been saying something is wrong, Ron Haley told USA TODAY. They see the inhumanity, the brutality and the reckless indifference of Ronnie s life. Family members, attorneys, activists and civil rights organizations will rally Thursday on the Louisiana Capitol steps to call for the arrest of the officers involved in Greene s death. Representatives from the American Civil Liberties Union and NAACP of Louisiana, Greene s family, attorneys Lee Merritt and Haley, and Tamika Mallory, co-founder of Until Freedom, are expected to attend the rally. ....
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