Ronald Greene’s mother chastised Louisiana lawmakers for not acting quickly enough to hold state troopers accountable for her son's deadly 2019 arrest, saying his death at the end of a high-speed chase was a “murder” that's been covered up.
Mona Hardin holds the boxed ashes of her son, Ronald Greene, Saturday, Dec. 4, 2021, in Orlando, Fla. On Monday, Dec. 13, 2021, Hardin chastised Louisiana lawmakers for not acting quickly enough to hold state troopers accountable for her son's deadly 2019 arrest, saying the Black motorist’s death at the end of a high-speed chase was a “murder” that's been covered up, “sugar coated” and mired in bureaucracy. BATON ROUGE, La.
Troopers initially blamed Greene's death on a car crash on a rural roadside outside Monroe. But long-withheld body-camera videoin May instead showed white troopers punching, stunning and dragging Greene as he pleaded for mercy and repeatedly wailed, “I'm scared!” State police commanders earlier described several changes the agency enacted in the wake of Greene's death, including a new investigative unit that will probe uses of force by troopers.But the ongoing criminal investigations prevented lawmakers from delving more deeply into what ranking officials knew and when they knew it in the wake of Greene's in-custody death — questions that remain at the heart of the federal inquiry.
York and Clary remain in the crosshairs of both federal and state prosecutors, and their attorneys advised them against appearing Monday.withheld a critical 30-minute body camera videoYork, meanwhile, can be seen on video dragging Greene by his ankle shackles and leaving the heavyset 49-year-old face down with his hands and feet restrained for more than nine minutes.
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