The troopers also exchanged 14 text messages in which they boasted about the beating and mocked Harris.
State prosecutors have charged three Louisiana State Police troopers accused of beating a Black motorist, hoisting him to his feet by his hair braids and bragging in text messages that the"whoopin'" would give him"nightmares for a long time."
The troopers' attorneys declined to comment Thursday. A state police spokesperson did not immediately comment on the charges. , another Black motorist beaten by state police. A federal grand jury also has been hearing testimony in that case, in which troopers stunned, punched and dragged Greene before he died on a rural roadside in Union Parish, outside Monroe. The Associated Press reported this week that the Justice Department is increasingly skeptical it can bring a successful case against the troopers.
"They kept saying 'Stop resisting' but I was never resisting," Harris told investigators."As soon as they got to me, one of them kneed me in my face. One of them was squeezing my eyes." Brown, Harper and DeMoss, who were part of a notoriously violent division of troopers patrolling the northeastern part of the state, were arrested in the case last year. DeMoss and Harper were fired and Brown, who in October pleaded not guilty in a separate federal case accusing him of pummeling another Black motorist 18 times with a flashlight, resigned.
Harris sped away from the traffic stop in a Hyundai Sonata, leading troopers on a 29-mile chase that reached speeds of 150 miles before it was finally stopped with the help of a tire-puncturing spike strip.
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