Commissar SFLUFAN Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Justice Department opens probe into Louisiana State Police | AP News APNEWS.COM BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department is opening a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has a pattern of looking the other way in the face of beatings of mostly Black men, including the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. Quote The U.S. Justice Department is opening a sweeping civil rights investigation into the Louisiana State Police amid mounting evidence that the agency has a pattern of looking the other way in the face of beatings of mostly Black men, including the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene. The federal “pattern-or-practice” probe, which officials familiar with the matter told The Associated Press will be announced later Thursday, comes more than three years after white troopers were captured on long-withheld body-camera video beating, stunning and dragging Greene on a rural roadside near Monroe. Despite lengthy, ongoing federal and state investigations into a death that troopers initially blamed on a car crash, no one has yet been charged. An AP investigation found Greene’s arrest was among at least a dozen cases over the past decade in which state police troopers or their bosses ignored or concealed evidence of beatings, deflected blame and impeded efforts to root out misconduct. Dozens of current and former troopers said the beatings were countenanced by a culture of impunity, nepotism and, in some cases, outright racism. AP’s reporting found troopers have made a habit of turning off or muting body cameras during pursuits. When footage is recorded, the agency has routinely refused to release it. And a recently retired supervisor who oversaw a particularly violent clique of troopers told internal investigators last year that it was his “common practice” to rubber-stamp officers’ use-of-force reports without ever reviewing body-camera video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CayceG Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Excellent. Now do the other 49. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 6 minutes ago, CayceG said: Excellent. Now do the other 49. Plenty of federal law enforcement agencies need this too...oh wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Vic20 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Really?! unequal treatment of POC by the COP , do tell! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 It's bad there. The State Police of Louisiana is heavily infiltrated by White supremacists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 35 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said: It's bad everywhere. Police forces across the US are heavily infiltrated by White supremacists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anathema- Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 I mean yeah guys obviously it's bad everywhere but each state has a sightly different flavor of racism. In Texas they ignored losing the civil war and were put down (two years later); in Louisiana white insurrectionists literally took over the elected pluralist state government by force and everyone shrugged. The cops in Louisiana bringing a special brand of extreme racism shouldn't be surprising. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 17 minutes ago, Anathema- said: I mean yeah guys obviously it's bad everywhere but each state has a sightly different flavor of racism. In Texas they ignored losing the civil war and were put down (two years later); in Louisiana white insurrectionists literally took over the elected pluralist state government by force and everyone shrugged. The cops in Louisiana bringing a special brand of extreme racism shouldn't be surprising. This. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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