What Happened To Ronald Greene?

A Louisiana man's death was called a car accident. The video footage shows a different story.

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This happened in 2019. The state of Louisiana finally releases the graphic footage.

The release of the video of a traffic stop in Louisiana has sparked a federal probe into the matter.

The Louisiana State Police were captured on body camera video stunning, punching and dragging a Black man as he apologized for leading them on a high-speed chase -- footage of the man's last alive that The Associated Press obtained after authorities refused to release the footage for over two years.

"I'm your brother! I'm scared! I'm scared!" Ronald Greene could be heard telling the white troopers as the unarmed man is jolted repeatedly with a stun gun before he even gets out of his car along a dark, rural road.

This incident happened in 2019 near Monroe, Louisiana. 

State officials have rebuffed calls to release the video footage and details about what cause the 49-year old's death. Troopers initially told Greene's family he died on impact after crashing into a tree during the chase. Later, the State Police released a one-page statement acknowledging only that Greene struggled with troopers and died on his way to the hospital.

Only now in the footage obtained by the AP from one trooper's body camera can the public see for the first time some of what happened during the arrest.

The 46-minute clip shows one trooper wrestling Greene to the ground, putting him in a chokehold and punching him in the face while another can be heard calling him a "stupid motherfucker."

Greene wails, "I'm sorry!" as another trooper delivers a stun gun shock to his backside and warns, "Look, you're going to get it again if you don't put your fucking hands behind your back!" Another trooper can be seen briefly dragging the man facedown after his legs had been shackled and his hand cuffed behind him.

A high speed chase led to a brutal incident capture on cop's body cams.

Instead of rending aid, the troopers left Greene unattended, facedown and moaning for more than nine minutes, as they use sanitizer wipes to wash blood off their hands and faces.

"I hope this guy ain't got fucking AIDS," one of the troopers can be heard saying.

After several minutes in which Greene was not seen on camera, he appears again, limp, unresponsive and bleeding from the head and face. He is then loaded onto an ambulance gurney, his arm cuffed to the bedrail.

In the video where Greene is not on screen, one trooper appears to cut off the microphone. It was difficult for the Associated Press to determine what was said. Many of those troopers did not have their body cameras on during the encounter and arrest.

"They murdered him. It was set out, it was planned," said Greene's mother, Mona Hardin.

The attorney for Greene's family, S. Lee Merritt said the footage "has some of the same hallmarks of the George Floyd video, the length of it, the sheer brutality of it."

"He apologize in an attempt to surrender," Merritt added.

Louisiana state troopers beat the shit out of Ronald Greene.

The Louisiana State Police declined to comment on the release of the video and the department said the "premature public release of investigative files and video evidence in this case is not authorized and ... undermines the investigative process and compromises the fair and impartial outcome."

They claim the use of force was justified.  They said it was "awful but lawful."

Democratic governor Karen Bel Edwards said the Greene family was allowed to view the camera footage. The Democratic governor signed off the "Blue Lives Matter" law which makes it a crime if you harm a police officer in any fashion. It's a response to the aftermath of a terrorist killing three Baton Rouge Police officers in response to two other cops killing Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge. The Louisiana law makes law enforcement a protected class.

Greene’s family has filed a federal wrongful-death lawsuit alleging troopers “brutalized” Greene, and "left him beaten, bloodied and in cardiac arrest" before covering up the cause of death. His family has released graphic photographs of Greene’s body on a gurney, showing deep bruises and cuts on his face and head.

Greene, a barber, failed to pull over for an unspecified traffic violation shortly after midnight on May 10, 2019, about 30 miles south of the Arkansas state line. That’s where the video obtained by AP begins, with Trooper Dakota DeMoss chasing Greene's SUV on rural highways at over 115 mph.

Seconds before the chase ended, DeMoss warned on his radio: "We got to do something. He's going to kill somebody."

As DeMoss and Master Trooper Chris Hollingsworth rush Greene's SUV, he can be seen appearing to raise his hands and saying over and over, "OK, OK. I’m sorry."

Hollingsworth shocks Greene with a stun gun within seconds through the driver’s side window as both troopers demand he get out of the vehicle.

Greene exits through the passenger side as the troopers wrestle him to the ground. One trooper can be heard saying "He's grabbing me" as they try to handcuff him. "Put your hands behind your back, bitch," one trooper says.

Hollingsworth strikes Greene multiple times and appears to lie on one of his arms before he is finally handcuffed.

"Choked him and everything else trying to get him under control," Hollingsworth is heard saying. "He was spitting blood everywhere, and all of a sudden he just went limp."

Hollingsworth later died in a single-vehicle highway crash that happened hours after he learned he would be fired for his role in the Greene case.

DeMoss, meanwhile, was arrested in connection with a separate police pursuit last year in which he and two other troopers allegedly used excessive force while handcuffing a motorist.

Exactly what caused Greene's death remains unclear. Union Parish Coroner Renee Smith told AP last year his death was ruled accidental and attributed to cardiac arrest. Smith, who was not in office when that determination was made, said her office’s file on Greene attributed his death to a car crash and made no mention of a struggle with State Police.

The AP last year also obtained a medical report showing an emergency room doctor noted Greene arrived dead at the hospital, bruised and bloodied with two stun-gun prongs in his back. That led the doctor to question troopers' initial account that Greene had "died on impact" after crashing into a tree.

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