Body camera video from two years ago shows a Louisiana State Police trooper beating a Black man 18 times with a flashlight. The tropper defended the attack as “pain compliance” according to USA Today. Aaron Larry Bowman can be heard yelling during the assault “I’m not resisting! I’m not resisting” in footage obtained by The Associated Press. The incident took place in May 2019 took place following a traffic stop left Bowman with a broken jaw, three broken ribs, a broken wrist and a gash on his head which required six staples to close.

The encounter took place nearby Bowman’s Monroe, Louisiana home was less than three weeks after troopers from the same department stunned and dragged another Black man, Ronald Greene, before he passed away in police custody. Video of Greene’s death remained under wraps before AP News obtained the video and published it earlier this year.

Federal prosecutors are looking into both cases into potential cover-ups involving both troopers and state police officials.

State police didn’t investigate the incident with Bowman until 536 days after it occurred  although it was captured on body camera. The investigation only began weeks after Bowman filed a civil lawsuit. The police didn’t immediately respond to messages seeking comment on the video.

Trooper Jacob Brown, who is white, was the trooper who beat Bowman. Before Brown resigned in March he had 23 use-of-force incidents dating to 2015 — 19 of them targeting Black people, according to state police records.

Aside from the federal investigation, Brown faces state charges of second-degree battery and malfeasance in Bowman’s beating. Along with state charges in two other violent arrests of Black motorists, including one he boasted about last year in a group chat with other troopers, saying the suspect is “gonna be sore” and “it warms my heart knowing we could educate that young man” according to USA TODAY.

When Bowman was pulled over for a traffic violation, Brown came upon the scene after officers had forcibly removed Bowman from his car and took him to the ground. The trooper later told investigators he “was in the area and was trying to get involved.”

Holding an 8-inch aluminum flashlight reinforced with a pointed end to shatter car glass, Brown jumped out of his police car and started bashing Bowman on his head and body within two seconds of “initial contact” — leashing out 18 strikes in 24 seconds, detectives wrote in an police report.

“Give me your f—— hands!” the trooper shouted. “I ain’t messing with you.”

Bowman attempted to explain several times that he was a dialysis patient, and had done nothing wrong and wasn’t resisting, saying, “I’m not fighting you, you’re fighting me.”

Brown responded with: “Shut the f—- up!” and “You ain’t listening.”

Brown not only failed to report his use of force but mislabeled his footage as a “citizen encounter” in what investigators called “an intentional attempt to hide the video from any administrative review.”

Bowman’s defense attorney, Keith Whiddon, says he was initially told there was no body-camera footage. Robert Tew, the district attorney in Monroe, declined to discuss Brown’s case. “We’ll see what the DOJ has to do,” he said during a brief interview outside his home.

Bowman himself hadn’t seen the footage until recently, when prosecutors from the U.S. Justice Department showed it to him and his civil attorney.

“I kept thinking I was going to die that night,” Bowman told the AP in a recent interview. “It was like reliving it all over again. By watching it, I broke down all over again.”

“I don’t want nobody to go through that.”

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